Every Fireflies meeting feature, plus offline search, cross-meeting intelligence, and a local database no other tool has.
Sync your entire meeting history once, then search, analyze, and correlate across every conversation without touching the API. Find stale action items, track topic escalation over weeks, reconstruct the full history with any person or account — all offline, all composable with jq and SQL.
Authentication
Requires a Fireflies API key set as FIREFLIES_API_KEY. API access requires a Business plan or higher. Get your key at app.fireflies.ai → Settings → Developer.
Quick Start
# verify auth and API reachability
fireflies-pp-cli doctor
# pull all transcripts + summaries + sentences into local SQLite
fireflies-pp-cli sync --full
# see your recent meetings
fireflies-pp-cli transcripts list --mine --limit 10
# full-text search offline
fireflies-pp-cli search "action item" --from 7d --agent
# find dropped commitments
fireflies-pp-cli action-items stale --days 14 --agent
Unique Features
These capabilities aren't available in any other tool for this API.
Local state that compounds
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transcripts search — Full-text search across all synced meeting transcripts without consuming any API quota.
Use to find every time a specific topic was mentioned across all meetings without burning rate-limited API calls.
fireflies-pp-cli transcripts search "pricing objection" --agent --select id,title,dateString
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action-items list — Aggregate action items from all meetings in a date range — weekly commitment audit in one command.
Use at the end of the week to harvest all commitments made in meetings and push to a TODO file.
fireflies-pp-cli action-items list --from 7 --agent
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transcripts find — Find meetings by participant email, channel name, keyword, or date range — all client-side, no broken API date filters.
Use when you need meetings with a specific person or channel — the API's title-based search fails when meeting names don't contain participant names.
fireflies-pp-cli transcripts find --participant danijel.latin@verybigthings.com --from 30 --processed-only --agent
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transcripts status — Show PROCESSED / PROCESSING / FAILED status for recent meetings upfront — know before you fetch.
Use when fetching same-day or next-morning meetings — avoids the loop of 'meeting not ready yet' failures.
fireflies-pp-cli transcripts status --since 48h --agent
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topics list — Most frequent topics across all meetings in a date range — what is actually consuming meeting time.
Use during quarterly planning to identify recurring themes before deciding where to invest time.
fireflies-pp-cli topics list --from 30 --top 15 --agent
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digest — Aggregate view of all recent meetings: titles, gists, topics, and action items in one structured output.
Use at session start or in a morning cron to orient on what happened yesterday before taking action.
fireflies-pp-cli digest --since 24h --agent
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transcripts export — Export a transcript as markdown to a vault directory with auto-generated YYYY-MM-DD_title.md filename.
Use after a client meeting to save the formatted transcript directly to the right project folder.
fireflies-pp-cli transcripts export abc123 --vault ~/vaults/VBT/Projects/1_Active/Ryder/transcripts/ --agent
Person-centric intelligence
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person timeline — Chronological meeting history with a specific person — topics, action items, and talk ratio per meeting.
Use before a QBR or renewal call to reconstruct the full relationship history without reading every transcript.
fireflies-pp-cli person timeline danijel.latin@verybigthings.com --from 90 --agent
Usage
Run fireflies-pp-cli --help for the full command reference and flag list.
Commands
active-meetings
Manage active-meetings
fireflies-pp-cli active-meetings get - Get a single activemeetingfireflies-pp-cli active-meetings update - Update a activemeeting
analyticses
Manage analyticses
fireflies-pp-cli analyticses get - Get a single analytics
app-outputs
Manage app-outputs
fireflies-pp-cli app-outputs get - Get a single appoutput
ask-fred-responses
Manage ask-fred-responses
fireflies-pp-cli ask-fred-responses create - Create a askfredresponse
ask-fred-thread-summaries
Manage ask-fred-thread-summaries
fireflies-pp-cli ask-fred-thread-summaries get - Get a single askfredthreadsummary
ask-fred-threads
Manage ask-fred-threads
fireflies-pp-cli ask-fred-threads get - Get a single askfredthread
bites
Manage bites
fireflies-pp-cli bites create - Create a bitefireflies-pp-cli bites get - Get a single bite
channels
Manage channels
fireflies-pp-cli channels get - Get a single channel
contacts
Manage contacts
fireflies-pp-cli contacts get - Get a single contact
live-action-items
Manage live-action-items
fireflies-pp-cli live-action-items create - Create a liveactionitemfireflies-pp-cli live-action-items get - Get a single liveactionitem
mutation-results
Manage mutation-results
fireflies-pp-cli mutation-results delete - Delete a mutationresultfireflies-pp-cli mutation-results update - Update a mutationresult
transcripts
Manage transcripts
fireflies-pp-cli transcripts get - Get a single transcript
user-groups
Manage user-groups
fireflies-pp-cli user-groups get - Get a single usergroup
users
Manage users
fireflies-pp-cli users get - Get a single user
Output Formats
# Human-readable table (default in terminal, JSON when piped)
fireflies-pp-cli active-meetings get
# JSON for scripting and agents
fireflies-pp-cli active-meetings get --json
# Filter to specific fields
fireflies-pp-cli active-meetings get --json --select id,name,status
# Dry run — show the request without sending
fireflies-pp-cli active-meetings get --dry-run
# Agent mode — JSON + compact + no prompts in one flag
fireflies-pp-cli active-meetings get --agent
Agent Usage
This CLI is designed for AI agent consumption:
- Non-interactive - never prompts, every input is a flag
- Pipeable -
--json output to stdout, errors to stderr
- Filterable -
--select id,name returns only fields you need
- Previewable -
--dry-run shows the request without sending
- Explicit retries - add
--idempotent to create retries and --ignore-missing to delete retries when a no-op success is acceptable
- Confirmable -
--yes for explicit confirmation of destructive actions
- Piped input - write commands can accept structured input when their help lists
--stdin
- Offline-friendly - sync/search commands can use the local SQLite store when available
- Agent-safe by default - no colors or formatting unless
--human-friendly is set
Exit codes: 0 success, 2 usage error, 3 not found, 4 auth error, 5 API error, 7 rate limited, 10 config error.
Health Check
fireflies-pp-cli doctor
Verifies configuration, credentials, and connectivity to the API.
Configuration
Config file: ~/.config/fireflies-pp-cli/config.toml
Environment variables:
| Name | Kind | Required | Description |
|---|
FIREFLIES_API_KEY | per_call | Yes | Set to your API credential. |
Troubleshooting
Authentication errors (exit code 4)
- Run
fireflies-pp-cli doctor to check credentials
- Verify the environment variable is set:
echo $FIREFLIES_API_KEY
Not found errors (exit code 3)
- Check the resource ID is correct
- Run the
list command to see available items
API-specific
- 403 Forbidden on any query — Fireflies API requires Business plan or higher; verify at app.fireflies.ai/settings/billing
- stale/search returns no results — Run 'fireflies-pp-cli sync --full' first to populate the local store
- rate limit 429 with retryAfter — Free/Pro: 50 req/day; Business+: 60 req/min — the CLI retries with exponential backoff automatically
- audio_url/video_url empty in transcript — Audio URLs expire after 24h; re-fetch the transcript to get a fresh URL
Sources & Inspiration
This CLI was built by studying these projects and resources:
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