NotebookLM API?

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Hello, I am very new to this and just created my account a moment ago but I was just wondering if there is any plan to release an API for notebookLM.

Thanks!

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Hiya! Welcome to the forums.
I believe Notebook LM is not available, as there’s no official docs for it. There are open source alternatives such as HuggingFace.co but you’ll need to run it yourself.

Happy coding!
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sorry for the very delayed response, but thank you!

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There is no official API for NotebookLM, but I have heard that people have made their own, either using JSON calls, or screen-scraping and automating the browser.

I would really like a “home API” for NotebookLM. I don’t want to officially call the gemini API because you lose a bunch of what NotebookLM can do that way, without replicating way more than should be necessary.

So, if anyone has developed a tool to automate interaction with NotebookLM by automating interaction with the browser, please let me know.

For those of you willing to reinvent wheel, I can easily show you how to use the Gemini API to replicate a lot of NotebookLM, but without the fine tuning they’ve done and probably some special code, it’s not a perfect process and I want mine perfect!

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I’ve been on the lookout for a good API for knowledge retrieval and ended up trying the top three tools I came across over the past year:

  • Super.work → Connects with tools like Notion, Slack, Jira, etc., and does a solid job figuring out where to pull the right info from. The interface is great, and the Slack integration works really well. The only catch is that you need to get a 10-seat subscription, which isn’t ideal unless you’re using it for a team or company.

  • Lookio.app → Super easy to set up. You just upload your files, create Assistants, grab an API key, and you can start making queries right away. It’s pay-as-you-go, which makes it easy to experiment with. The downside is that it doesn’t connect to external data sources like Slack and is mainly built around API usage rather than its own interface.

  • Dust.tt → A more complete solution overall, with solid integrations and a nice interface. I didn’t test it as much as the others, but it’s noticeably more expensive.

Note: These are all focused on the knowledge retrieval side of things, not the “generate a podcast” feature that NotebookLM offers.

All three become really powerful once you plug them into automation tools like n8n, Zapier, or Make. That way, you can build programmatic workflows or even set them up as customer support bots that respond based on your internal docs.

Hope this helps

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good timing! I was just looking for a tool to answer based on my documents and connect that to workflow in n8n. I’ve tried Lookio, as for now I don’t need to connect to datasources you mentioned, but I’ll keep the two other options in mind. It works surprisingly well :slight_smile: Thanks again

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Right now, Google has not released a public API for NotebookLM, and there is no official date announced for when it will be available. For now, developers still need to rely on the Gemini API to build similar document-analysis features.

By the way, on our bail bonds Tampa website we follow tech updates that improve workflow and case management, and we’ll share news as soon as NotebookLM provides an API option.

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UPDATE: Google has released an API for NotebookLM now. I can no longer edit my original post so I wanted to put correct information here.