# How to Install Claude Code from Scratch: Mac and Windows

## Метаданные

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- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKGd1NUDcKQ
- **Дата:** 13.04.2026
- **Длительность:** 11:52
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- **Источник:** https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/48867

## Описание

I'll show you how to install Claude Code from scratch on Mac and Windows—step by step, without unnecessary details. We'll cover two connection methods: a $20 subscription and an API—which is cheaper and better.

In this video, you'll learn how to launch Claude Code in the terminal and in Visual Studio Code, how to create an API key, and top up your balance. Everything you need to get started with AI agents and automation through Claude. Suitable for beginners—no coding required.

📌 Important: Claude doesn't work directly from Russia, so in the video I explain how to resolve this issue. Links to virtual cards for payment are below.

Pay for Claude via the bot: https://t.me/Claude_Store_bot?start=r...
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00:00 - Introduction: What we'll do
00:15 - Claude from Russia: What you need to know
01:39 - Three ways to install Claude Code
03:48 - Installation via terminal (Mac and Wi

## Транскрипт

### Introduction: What we'll do []

Hello. This is an introductory video on how to install the cloud code on your computer. I will show you in what versions it should be on your computer so that you can create, for example, your own agents that will perform your tasks. Clt is generally accessible

### Claude from Russia: What you need to know [0:15]

from the website. You log into clod. ai, create an account, and immediately get a huge disclaimer: "Clod does not work from Russia. " That is, if you connect from Russia, the site will open, but it will say that your application is unavailable. We need to make sure that you access the site from a non-Russian IP address. This needs to be understood. To do this, you will need an IP address, and, accordingly, a non- Russian email address, and, possibly, a non-Russian phone number. For this purpose, there are special services for receiving temporary SMS messages. But the most important thing you need to understand is that you cannot connect from Russia. This is basically just always the default for everything. This means that you are inaccessible to almost all neural networks if you are located in Russia. When you have conquered this, create your account with the following disclaimer. Almost everything I 'll show here applies to a paid account, starting at $20 per plan. That is, Claude has different options. For 20 bucks, for 100 bucks, for 200. The 20 dollar plan is enough for you. But in this video I'll show you how to pay less than $20 if you don't use the cloud much. But these are mostly paid functions that require a foreign card. Next to this video, I'll post somewhere, uh, two programs that allow you to pay from outside Russia, using non-Russian cards. That's how it is. Let's go. We need the

### Three ways to install Claude Code [1:39]

Claude code. If you want to understand all the nuances from the original source, then Anthropicians have such a course, it’s called Cloud Code in Action. It's on their website antropic. skilljar. com. This is a platform with courses. They uploaded various courses here. They made them great and high-quality, but they are all in English and with English subtitles. So, if your English isn't ok, watch my lessons. I don't rehash their courses, but I use the information from these courses because I use and learn from them constantly. So, they have a course here called CLD Code in Action. Uh, and here you can see step by step how everything works, how MCP servers work. I'll tell you what it is a little later. Skills, agents, how to work with files, how to install, how to configure. Everything is here. Here, for example, is the Setup code. Let's open it. And we have a lesson here in English that says that it can be installed in three ways. On MacOS via Home Brew, on MacOS via the command line, or on Windows also via the command line. In fact, in order to work with a cloud, including a cloud code, you need to install the application on your computer. Do not use the cloud in the browser. This means you can quickly open a task in the browser, ask a question, and close it. But for a computer you need to download a separate application. It's here in the download section. You will find here a download for your operating system for Windows or for MacOS. In general, the code is available in different places. It is available on the command line in the terminal. It is available in Visual Studio Code. This is a code editor, we will also install it today. In the form of a desktop application, that is, a computer application inside Jetbra and inside Slack. Forget it for the developers. There are also extensions, that is, expansion. This is not a full-fledged cloud, but rather an add-on in the form of an iOS application, Android application, Chrome extension, Excel extension, or PowerPoint extension. We are interested in this terminal. I will show and teach you how to do everything through the terminal, or, in extreme cases, through Visual Studio CD. We will be working a lot with

### Installation via terminal (Mac and Windows) [3:48]

code, we will be working a lot with some text files, so we will need a text editor, but we will not describe the code with you. Here. So, in order to install the cloud code on your computer, you can run just one command line in your terminal. And on a Mac, the terminal is called a terminal. Where can I find it? Open your Finder, go to Programs, and in the Programs you need to find the terminal. The terminal is located, I think, in utilities, if I'm not mistaken. Most likely yes, it is located in utilities and is called terminal. Not a console, but a terminal. That's what it's called. In short, you will find him. This command line only looks scary at the first stage. [snorts] If you are on Windows, open the start window, find search and type command prompt or cmd. When you open it, you will be able to enter a line with the code. If you have Windows CMD, then you enter this line, copy it and paste it. If you have Windows and you have found the PowerSell program, then you open the PowerShell program and paste this piece of code there and press Enter. If you have MacOS, then copy this line, open your terminal, paste it and wait. For me, the installation process will most likely be quick, because I have had the cloud on my computer for a long time, but for you it might take a little longer. That is, he establishes a cloud. And when you see the little green sign that everything worked out, everything is great. You see a check mark indicating that the installation is complete.

### First launch and authorization [5:24]

Now, in order to run clД, you just need to enter the word clД here, and it will start the installation process. Here you choose the color scheme how it will work. For example, I have Light mode, I’ll take it. Next, we have the opportunity to log in three ways. We immediately discard the third one. This is not a viable option for Russia. If you have an Amazon Bedrock, Microsoft Foundry, or Google's Vertex AI profile, you can use the cloud with a subscription. That is, the first option, it is called: Cloud account with subscription, that is, a clod account with a subscription. Remember, at the beginning I said that you must have a subscription. [snorts] And the second option, remember, I said that you can use it cheaper. This is, in fact, a rather asterisked point. You can use it via API. That

### Subscription vs. API: Which to choose? [6:11]

is, the API - you need to generate a key in a special cabinet, where you... Why did I say cabinet? OK. In a special office, where you take a special key, insert it and pay only for what you use. That is, for as much as

### Creating an API key and topping up your balance [6:31]

you use it. We open a website called platform. clot. com. You are logging in to this site. You should get into a personal account like this. That is, you log in with your username, password, and email. And here there is a case section. That is, you go into the keys and create a new key. You name it, for example, I will call it Telegram demo. So, to understand that this is a demo key. Click add, and you will see an API key like this. You copy it and then paste it into the terminal during the installation stage. Then all the money that you spend in this way, we will now remove this key, we will delete it immediately so that it is not here. And once you have created the key, you now need to top up your balance. In the billing section, you can find where to link your credit card or debit card. A foreign bank card is required. You can again purchase a card through intermediaries and top up your balance. So you top up your balance by 10 bucks and start spending. You give the LOD tasks, it does something for you, and it burns through that money incredibly quickly. That is, if you have some small task, you can try to take a look and sort of understand what kind of subscription you need. But I will say this, a $20 subscription gives you much more than the $20 you put into your account here. Therefore, it is better to log in through your paid account, because there you do not pay for tokens, but simply have certain limits. We select this

### Authorization in the terminal [8:07]

option and press Enter. And now we are transferred to the browser. Where you are asked to log in, you log in to your account and click the log in button. That's it, you'll see a window like this. And in the browser you see that you have successfully logged in. And now you just need to press Enter and press Enter again. Then it asks you to configure your browser a little. You click yes, trust this folder you are in, yes, and that's it, you're taken to this window. This window is our target; it is the most important thing for us. In this window we will make history in general. That is, doing everything looks scary, but this entire setup process that we just went through, we only do it once. Then you don't need to do it anymore. That's it, we're done. Now we can enter commands here, like in a chatbot, command, Slidef, Insites, and other commands. I will analyze them separately. Or we can just write make a recipe there, make it there, where is it, make a recipe for syrniki there. That is, we can communicate with him here as with a regular chat, but we will not chat. We will be solving all sorts of agency problems here. Fine. Here we have this window. How

### Claude Code in Visual Studio Code [9:29]

else can I use the clд code? You can use it in Visual Studio Code. To do this, you need to go to the website code. visualstudio. com and download this free program. Open source i Code Editor. They quickly changed their shoes. Now this is I Code Editor. Before this, it was just a regular code editor. It looks scary, terrifying, but we won’t do any of that here. Manually, even more so. We simply download this program, configure it, and install it. It is available for MacOS, Linux and Windows. And once you've set it up, all you have to do is open it. Open Visual Studio Code. This is what it looks like. Here you have windows for different things: here is a chat, here is our search bar, here we usually open files, here we have folders with the files we work with. And here there is a section called plugins or extensions. We go in and enter clклод into the search. They wrote it in. Click install. It is being installed. Once installed, we will have a cloud icon here. Let's open this thing. We're closing it, we don't need it anymore. We return here to the files, and my chat immediately opened. But most likely, your chat won't open right away [snorts]. For you it will look like this. That is, we log in exactly the same way, either by API key or by subscription. We have a subscription. Click open. A website page opens where we are asked to log in. We log in and that's it. And now we have a chat. This is more like a regular chat, a normal one, not a terminal, but all the commands that are in the terminal are also here. I'll talk about all the modes available in the terminal separately; they're also here. That's it, the

### Result: the database is ready [11:25]

installation process is complete. In theory, to work with cladcode, you should have clad in the terminal or command line and in Visual Studio CD on your computer. Do this in order to prepare the platform for further work with agents, with skills, with abilities, well, with all this, with teams. The base is ready. In short, I hope everything works out for you. If not, ask questions. See you in the next video.