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“Summarize this YouTube video” (given a link) is what I’d like to see and Google could easily do when there’s a transcript, but they’d probably rather make people watch the video.

I think Kagi might do this? Any other good solutions?

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I typically run lengthy YouTube video transcripts through Anthropic Claude to get a summary. It's free and offers a 100k context window. After summarizing, you can engage in a conversation with Claude. You can ask specific questions about the covered topics or prompt it with queries such as "What were the standout points?". It's quite adept at extracting key highlights.

Looks like that is still invitation only.

Really? I was under the impression that it is available to everyone. Are you attempting to access the API? There might be a waitlist for that. But, it should be readily available for use here: https://www.anthropic.com/index/claude-2

"Unfortunately, Claude.ai is only available in the US and UK. We're working hard to expand to other regions soon."

Kagi has such a feature, its called Universal Summarizer [0]

[0] https://kagi.com/summarizer/index.html?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww...

ChatGPT plus with a YouTube plugin does that too.

Interesting. I see multiple plugins. Any there any you recommend?

I use VoxScript because the first plugin I tried didn’t work well (time-outs) and it was the second and last YouTube plugin I tried. It’s okay but sometimes I need to ask for a full transcript otherwise it will get only the first chunk of the subtitles.

I use the AAAsummarize.io chatgpt plugin to summarize youtube videos. Has worked really well for me.

so many chatgpt plugins start with an "A " in their name to "rank" first in the list of all plugins. throw back to the telephone directory days :-)

Exactly. It's already easy enough to scan an article in 15 seconds to get the overall gist. But scanning through a YouTube transcript, in the tiny box, without any punctuation, without paragraphs, without sections, takes forever.

I used summarize.tech [0] once, and it worked fine, although it was quite repetitive iirc.

[0]: https://www.summarize.tech

I've been using this one: https://glasp.co/youtube-summary

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