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Ask ChatGPT about a YouTube video

Updated Part of YouTube to ChatGPT

Copy the video's transcript on WithTranscript and paste it into ChatGPT. OpenAI doesn't document ChatGPT reading YouTube videos from a link, and pasted text always works. Part of giving a YouTube video to an AI assistant.

Steps

  1. Paste the YouTube link into WithTranscript (the box above works).
  2. Press Copy transcript above the transcript. On a phone it's in the ⋯ menu.
  3. Paste it into the assistant and ask your question.

A first prompt

Here is the transcript of a YouTube video. Summarize it in
8 bullets. After each bullet, give the [m:ss] timestamp it
comes from.

[paste the transcript]

Asking for timestamps keeps the answer tied to the video: if a point looks wrong, click that time on WithTranscript and listen.

Long videos

For a video over an hour or two, ChatGPT may say the message is too long, or summarize the start and the end better than the middle. Paste a chapter or two at a time; the chapter list at the top of the copied text shows where each one starts.

If you paste a YouTube link, ChatGPT may tell you it can't watch videos, or answer from the title and description alone. Why that happens.

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