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Quote a YouTube video, and link to the exact moment

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Open the video on WithTranscript, find the line in the transcript (your browser's Ctrl+F works, since the whole transcript is on the page), click it to hear it, and copy the words. Then press S, or Copy link at current time, to copy a link that opens the video at that second. When you paste the link into a chat or post, its preview shows the time and the line spoken there.

Step by step

  1. Paste the YouTube link into the box above.
  2. Find the passage: skim the chapters, or search the page with Ctrl+F (⌘F on Mac).
  3. Click the sentence. The video jumps there, so you can check the words against the audio.
  4. Select the words and copy them.
  5. With the video at that moment, press S or click Copy link at current time in the player controls. On a phone, use Share link at current time.

The link is the video page plus the second to start at:

https://www.withtranscript.ai/video/We7BZVKbCVw?t=341

Opening it starts the video at 5:41 with the transcript beside it, so the reader sees the quote in context. Where the page can find the transcript text near that time, the link preview reads like At 5:41: "…". Prefer a YouTube link? Both kinds of timestamp link.

Check before you quote

Transcripts come from captions, and captions get names, numbers and technical words wrong now and then. Clicking the line and listening takes seconds. Speaker labels, where there are any, don't carry names, so confirm who is talking (speakers in a transcript).

Example from the library

Reid Hoffman on AI, Consciousness, and the Future of Labora16z · 53 min

A 53-minute interview in 8 chapters. Find a line, press S, and paste the link somewhere to see its preview.

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