faster-whisper
Enables fast, accurate local speech-to-text transcription with features like speaker diarization and subtitle generation.
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Security score
The faster-whisper skill was audited on Feb 21, 2026 and we found 32 security issues across 3 threat categories. Review the findings below before installing.
Categories Tested
Security Issues
Curl to non-GitHub URL
| 957 | curl http://localhost:8000/v1/audio/transcriptions \ |
Access to hidden dotfiles in home directory
| 35 | "optionalPaths": ["~/.cache/huggingface/token"], |
Access to hidden dotfiles in home directory
| 105 | - Only add `--hf-token` if the token is not cached at `~/.cache/huggingface/token` |
Access to hidden dotfiles in home directory
| 356 | By default, models are cached in `~/.cache/huggingface/`. Use `--model-dir` to override: |
Access to hidden dotfiles in home directory
| 474 | --model-dir PATH Custom model cache directory (default: ~/.cache/huggingface/) |
Access to hidden dotfiles in home directory
| 766 | - HuggingFace token at `~/.cache/huggingface/token` (`huggingface-cli login`) |
Access to hidden dotfiles in home directory
| 818 | Requires `yt-dlp` (checks PATH and `~/.local/share/pipx/venvs/yt-dlp/bin/yt-dlp`). |
Access to hidden dotfiles in home directory
| 994 | - **First run**: Downloads model to `~/.cache/huggingface/` (one-time) |
Access to hidden dotfiles in home directory
| 1113 | **Model download fails**: Check `~/.cache/huggingface/` permissions |
External URL reference
| 198 | | **YouTube/URL** | `./scripts/transcribe https://youtube.com/watch?v=...` | Auto-downloads via yt-dlp | |
External URL reference
| 237 | | **Keep temp files** | `./scripts/transcribe https://... --keep-temp` | For URL re-processing | |
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| 241 | | **Podcast RSS (latest 5)** | `./scripts/transcribe --rss https://feeds.example.com/podcast.xml` | Downloads & transcribes newest 5 episodes | |
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| 242 | | **Podcast RSS (all episodes)** | `./scripts/transcribe --rss https://... --rss-latest 0 -o ./episodes/` | All episodes, one file each | |
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| 243 | | **Podcast + SRT subtitles** | `./scripts/transcribe --rss https://... --format srt -o ./subs/` | Subtitle all episodes | |
External URL reference
| 408 | uv pip install --python .venv/bin/python torch --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu121 |
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| 411 | uv pip install --python .venv/bin/python torch --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu118 |
External URL reference
| 429 | ./scripts/transcribe https://youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ --language en |
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| 768 | - https://hf.co/pyannote/speaker-diarization-3.1 |
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| 769 | - https://hf.co/pyannote/segmentation-3.0 |
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| 809 | ./scripts/transcribe https://youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ |
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| 812 | ./scripts/transcribe https://example.com/podcast.mp3 |
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| 815 | ./scripts/transcribe https://youtube.com/watch?v=... --language en --format srt -o subs.srt |
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| 862 | ./scripts/transcribe --rss https://feeds.megaphone.fm/mypodcast -o ./transcripts/ |
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| 865 | ./scripts/transcribe --rss https://... --rss-latest 0 --format srt -o ./subtitles/ |
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| 868 | ./scripts/transcribe --rss https://... --skip-existing -o ./transcripts/ |
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| 871 | ./scripts/transcribe --rss https://... --diarize --retries 2 -o ./transcripts/ |
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| 910 | ./scripts/transcribe "https://youtube.com/watch?v=abc123" --format srt -o subs.srt |
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| 916 | ./scripts/transcribe https://youtube.com/watch?v=abc123 --keep-temp |
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| 957 | curl http://localhost:8000/v1/audio/transcriptions \ |
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| 966 | client = OpenAI(base_url="http://localhost:8000", api_key="none") |
External URL reference
| 1127 | - [Distil-Whisper Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00430) |
External URL reference
| 1128 | - [HuggingFace Models](https://huggingface.co/collections/Systran/faster-whisper) |