getting started - using fabric to extract wisdom from a youtube video - what (free) models to start out with? - what groq model to use anno 2026 to replace groq compound?

[iPanini60]

Hi,
Still trying to get going;
I have been digging into a 2019 intel macbook and finally found traces of fabric and groq.

For more background see this post.

For the time being I mainly have intel macs at my disposal, so that's what I concntrate upon.
The past couple of days I've done a fair deal of reading, so my understanding is starting to get a bit better, but still got a lot to learn.

The main thing, at the moment, is I would like to get youtube summarization back working.
Aftr a lot of fuzzing with Hombrew (which is nearly completely defunct after september 2026 on Intel mac's so it seems) I have done my first steps towards MacPorts.

Today I also found my totally forgotten account with groq.com... to find out that groq compound is not supported any more.
Back to my i9 macbook with 32 GB of ram.
I now realize there's a couple of possibilities, local or cloud and then various different models.

Some searching pointed towards using meta-llama/llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct, but I can't seem to find that on my Groq dashboard.

Could someone help pointing out how to get going with this?
I'd be prepared to accept paying, but insist on being able to keep an eye on my future spending.
So my tactic would be:

• see and find out how to get it to work
• do one or two tests summarizing a youtube video
• go to groq dashboard and check consumption / cost

At the same time I'm also looking into ways to run models locally, possibly by chaining / networking together equipment.

Thanks for helping out!

[vinayagg]

[iPanini60]

Ok - I try to follow your instructions.

• login to groq
• create new API key
• copy paste that into fabric --setup
• then I do fabric -L in terminal =>
  OpenAI unexpected status code: 401 from provider OpenAI, response body: {
  "error": {
  "message": "Incorrect API key provided: gsk_2e8u********************************************9rRw. You can find your API key at https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys.",
  "type": "invalid_request_error",
  "param": null,
  "code": "invalid_api_key"
  }
  }
  Available models:

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• I have done this twice now, paying very close attention to the key being correct (at first, something was wrong, so I deleted the key and created a new one)
• also, checking back on the groq console: "LAST USED" => Never

[ksylvan]

@iPanini60

That error looks like you tried to put the Groq key into the OpenAI provider.

Can you share your REDACTED ~/.config/fabric/.env file?

$ fabric -V groq -L
Available models:

        [1]     Groq|allam-2-7b
        [2]     Groq|canopylabs/orpheus-arabic-saudi
        [3]     Groq|canopylabs/orpheus-v1-english
        [4]     Groq|meta-llama/llama-prompt-guard-2-22m
        [5]     Groq|meta-llama/llama-prompt-guard-2-86m
        [6]     Groq|openai/gpt-oss-120b
        [7]     Groq|openai/gpt-oss-20b
        [8]     Groq|openai/gpt-oss-safeguard-20b
        [9]     Groq|qwen/qwen3.6-27b
        [10]    Groq|qwen/qwen3.8-27b
        [11]    Groq|whisper-large-v3
        [12]    Groq|whisper-large-v3-turbo

[iPanini60]

Thanks! Indeed my mistake.
I have entered it correctly now, and the answer now shows:
Available models:

   	[1]	Groq|allam-2-7b
   	[2]	Groq|canopylabs/orpheus-arabic-saudi
   	[3]	Groq|canopylabs/orpheus-v1-english
   	[4]	Groq|meta-llama/llama-prompt-guard-2-22m
   	[5]	Groq|meta-llama/llama-prompt-guard-2-86m
   	[6]	Groq|openai/gpt-oss-120b
   	[7]	Groq|openai/gpt-oss-20b
   	[8]	Groq|openai/gpt-oss-safeguard-20b
   	[9]	Groq|qwen/qwen3.6-27b
   	[10]	Groq|qwen/qwen3.8-27b
   	[11]	Groq|whisper-large-v3
   	[12]	Groq|whisper-large-v3-turbo

I will now first try to carefully proceed step by step and will report back here, before posting my ~/.config/fabric/.env file.
Thanks for spotting and helping!

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GROQ_API_KEY=, is not valid

Unbelievable...
Now this again..
GROQ API KEY copied 100% correctly from Groq console...

[iPanini60]

REDACTED ~/.config/fabric/.env file

erwin@i9 fabric % cat .env
DEFAULT_VENDOR=Groq
DEFAULT_MODEL=groq/compound
PATTERNS_LOADER_GIT_REPO_URL=https://github.com/danielmiessler/fabric.git
PATTERNS_LOADER_GIT_REPO_PATTERNS_FOLDER=data/patterns
CUSTOM_PATTERNS_DIRECTORY=/Users/erwin/CustomPatterns
PROMPT_STRATEGIES_GIT_REPO_URL=https://github.com/danielmiessler/fabric.git
PROMPT_STRATEGIES_GIT_REPO_STRATEGIES_FOLDER=data/strategies
OPENAI_API_KEY=gsk_bla-bla_z9rRw
OPENAI_API_BASE_URL=https://api.openai.com/v1
YOUTUBE_API_KEY=AIza_bla_bla_bla_4buI
erwin@i9 fabric %

Also: groq console keeps saying: usage 0 Api calls.
I don't know how long it takes for activity to appear in the Groq web-interface.

Is there any way to do more checking?
Manually calling an API check from terminal?

[iPanini60]

Ok, I think I'm going nuts or crazy..
I think there was an error in the path, not entirely sure...
Or I put the Groq key in the Openai setting..

I tried to get rid of the Openai key (which I don't have), so I entered fabric --setup again, called the Openai input, entered "reset" etc.

But then after closing out, and testing again,, I keep getting the OpenAI API error.
So I think the (wrongly) inserted key is not deleted.

Why is fabric keep getting the wrong key?
Might this have to do with maybe mixing setups between (old) homebrew and (new) macports?
Trying to find the macports fabric config location, but not succefull yet... 2026-11-04 21:07:44

[ksylvan]

You can safely edit and remove the OPENAI related keys from your ~/.config/fabric/.env file and try again.

[ksylvan]

Then you should set the default model *use fabric -d to bypass a lot of the setup menus) to a model that exists.

[iPanini60]

I'm not sure if you know, but I have first been using Homebrew, but kept running in upgrade and dependancy problems.

I then switched over to MacPorts, with which I'm very unfamiliar yet.
Setting up fabric and yt-dlp went fairly easy using MacPorts.

I've some doubts now that maybe the two installs have two different config locations and as a consequence I could be looking at the wrong one.

I've tried using homebrew uninstall fabric but that threw an error.

Will need some time to find out.
Thanks for helping out!