Meetily CLI: Meeting Notes From the Command Line

meetily-pro is Meetily’s own command-line tool, bundled with Meetily Pro 1.11.0 and later. It is the scripting side of the same integrations that power the Meetily MCP server: a local API on your computer, per-key permissions, and signed webhooks. Use it from a shell script, cron, a task runner or any language that can run a command, while Meetily is running. It does not transcribe anything itself; Meetily does that on your computer, and the CLI reads and controls the results.

1. Open Settings > PRO and turn on Integrations.
2. In the Integrations tab, under Apps & scripts, turn on Allow the CLI on this computer. That gives the CLI read-only access to your meetings and recording notifications.
3. If a script needs to start or stop recordings, click Create key, give it only the permissions it needs, copy the key (Meetily shows it once) and turn on its Allow switch.

The CLI docs show where the binary lives on Windows and macOS. meetily-pro install-cli copies it to ~/.local/bin and tells you if that folder still needs adding to your PATH.

The ones most scripts need, with the permission each one uses:

• Search every transcript

  meetily-pro search "pricing page"

  Permission: Read

• List recent meetings

  meetily-pro meetings list --limit 10

  Permission: Read

• Export a meeting (md, txt or json)

  meetily-pro meetings export <meeting-id> --format md

  Permission: Read

• Read a transcript

  meetily-pro transcript get <meeting-id>

  Permission: Read

• Read a summary

  meetily-pro summary get <meeting-id>

  Permission: Read

• Check whether Meetily is recording

  meetily-pro recording status

  Permission: Read

• Wait (up to an hour) until a recording stops

  meetily-pro recording wait --until stopped --wait-timeout 3600

  Permission: Read

• Start a recording

  meetily-pro recording start --meeting-name "Weekly sync"

  Permission: Record

• Stop the recording

  meetily-pro recording stop

  Permission: Record

• Get a webhook when a summary is ready

  meetily-pro webhooks add --url <url> --events summary.completed

  Permission: Read

• Check your setup

  meetily-pro doctor

  Permission: None

Every command accepts --json for raw JSON output. The full list, including jobs, speaker labels and summary regeneration, is in the CLI reference.

meetings export prints the meeting’s title, summary and timestamped transcript. Pick Markdown, plain text or JSON (the default), and redirect it wherever you keep notes, for example an Obsidian vault:

meetily-pro meetings list --limit 5
meetily-pro meetings export <meeting-id> --format md > ~/Obsidian/Meetings/weekly-sync.md

Two ways. For a quick script, block until the recording stops and carry on from there. For something that runs all the time, subscribe a local endpoint to a signed webhook:

# Block (up to an hour) until the current recording stops
meetily-pro recording wait --until stopped --wait-timeout 3600

# Or get a signed webhook every time a summary is ready
meetily-pro webhooks add --url http://127.0.0.1:9002/meetily --events summary.completed

Before you add a webhook, turn on Outgoing (webhooks) and add your script’s address as a local target under Integrations > Advanced. A new webhook then stays pending until you approve its destination, and Meetily shows its signing secret once, when you add it. Each delivery carries only the event name, a meeting ID and a timestamp, signed with HMAC-SHA256 in the X-Meetily-Signature header. Details are in the webhooks docs.

Allowing the CLI in the app is enough for read-only commands on the same computer. For anything more, create a key in Apps & scripts with only the permissions the script needs, copy it (Meetily shows it once), turn on its Allow switch, save it to a file, and pass it with --token-file or the MEETILY_PRO_TOKEN environment variable. The CLI no longer accepts a key directly on the command line, so it never shows up in your shell history or process list.

meetily-pro --token-file ~/.config/meetily/record.key recording start --meeting-name "Design review"