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YouTube Video Summarizer

Paste a YouTube link and get a written summary of the video, with its key points and a list of chapters with start times.

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Exemplary AI's YouTube video summarizer turns a video into a short read: paste the YouTube link, and it transcribes the video and writes a summary with the key points.

Select Chapters as well for the video's sections with their start times, and Key takeaways for a bullet list of what to remember. Free plan: 500 one-time credits.

What the YouTube video summary generator gives you

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Summary
A written summary of the video, with its key points
Chapters
The video's sections, each with a start time and a short title
Key takeaways
A bullet list of the points worth remembering
From the same transcript
Key quotes, Q&A, title ideas, keywords, a blog post, social posts and a newsletter
Input
A YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Vimeo or X link, or an audio or video file (MP3, WAV, M4A, AAC, FLAC, OGG, MP4, MOV or WEBM)
Languages
Transcripts in 99 languages
Copy and export
Copy it as Markdown, or download it as Text (.txt), Markdown (.md) or Word (.docx); you can also save it as a PDF from your browser's print dialog
Free plan
The Free plan includes 500 one-time credits; files up to 500 MB and 30 min long; 720p video exports with a watermark. Credits are used by the tasks you run, rather than a fixed number of generations.
How it works

How to summarize a YouTube video

A YouTube video link pasted into Exemplary AI with the spoken language selected

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The AI summarizer works on any recording, not only YouTube. Upload a podcast episode for a podcast summary, or a lecture for study notes. For meetings, the meeting minutes generator covers notes and a follow-up email, and for a podcast you publish, the show notes generator writes the episode description.

To do it by hand instead, summarizing a YouTube video with ChatGPT walks through the prompts, and getting the transcript of a YouTube video shows where YouTube keeps its own.

What it does

Read the video before you watch it

The YouTube summary is written by AI from what is said in the video, so you can see what it covers, and where, before you spend the time on it.

Summary with key points

A few paragraphs on what the video covers, followed by its key points, written from the transcript rather than the title or thumbnail.

Chapters with timestamps

The video's sections with their start times, so you can skip to the part you need on YouTube.

Key takeaways

Short takeaways in a bullet list, for notes, a study guide or a message to a colleague.

Turn it into something new

Write a blog post, social posts or a newsletter from the same transcript, without pasting the link again.

Keep going

Make more from the ideas in your video

Move between a concise summary, useful notes, and a post written for your audience.

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Questions

Common questions

How do I summarize a YouTube video?
Paste the video's link into Exemplary AI, choose the spoken language and select Summary once the transcript is ready. The summary comes back as a document you can edit, copy or download.
Is the YouTube video summarizer free?
On the Free plan, yes: 500 one-time credits; files up to 500 MB and 30 min long; 720p video exports with a watermark. Transcribing the video and writing the summary both use credits from that allowance.
Can I summarize a YouTube video with timestamps?
Yes, with Chapters. The summary itself is prose without timestamps; select Chapters as well and you get the video's sections with their start times, to jump to each part on YouTube.
Does it work on videos that don't have captions?
Yes. It transcribes the video's audio itself, so it does not depend on YouTube's captions being turned on.
How long a YouTube video can it summarize?
The Free plan's limits are 500 one-time credits; files up to 500 MB and 30 min long. Paid plans take longer videos, and a longer video takes longer to transcribe.
Can I summarize a podcast or a video that is not on YouTube?
Yes. Paste a YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Vimeo or X link, or upload an audio or video file (MP3, WAV, M4A, AAC, FLAC, OGG, MP4, MOV or WEBM). A podcast episode gets the same summary, chapters and takeaways.
What is the difference between the summary and key takeaways?
The summary is prose: a few paragraphs on what the video covers, with its key points. Key takeaways is a bullet list of the points worth remembering, one sentence each, for notes you can scan.

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