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YouTube Transcript Summarizer
Paste a transcript and get a tight summary plus the key points — know what a video says without watching all of it.
- 100% free
- No signup
- Free AI · 10 runs a day
Step by step
How to use the Transcript Summarizer
Step 01
On the video, open the description → “Show transcript” → select all → copy.
Step 02
Paste it here and hit Summarize.
Step 03
Copy the summary and key points for your notes, scripts or research.
Understand your results
What the results mean
The summarizer (powered by Google's Gemini) reads the full transcript and returns a 2–3 sentence summary plus 5–8 concrete key points. It works on any video whose transcript you can open — yours or anyone's.
Why paste instead of a link? Caption files can only be fetched via the API by the video's owner, so link-based transcript tools scrape endpoints against YouTube's terms. Copying from YouTube's own panel takes seconds and keeps the tool reliable and honest. Free use is limited to 10 generations a day.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
How do I summarize a YouTube video for free?
Open the video's transcript panel ('Show transcript' in the description), copy it, paste it here. You get a summary and key points in seconds.
Why do I have to paste the transcript?
YouTube only allows caption downloads by the video's owner through its API. The transcript panel is the public, terms-compliant source — and copying it takes five seconds.
How long a video can it handle?
Up to roughly 120,000 characters of transcript — several hours of speech.
Is the summary reliable?
It's AI-generated and usually accurate, but spot-check anything you plan to quote. The transcript itself may also contain auto-caption errors.
Do you store transcripts?
No. The text is sent to Google's Gemini API to generate the summary and isn't stored by us.
Last updated November 4, 2026 · Reviewed by the channelpeeker team · How we calculate