I love watching the world run around in circles :)

We started out by writing text, then went on to recording video/speech, only to realize that text was superior in the first place.

I get the value of videos for introducing new topics to beginners, but apart from the very early stages, i much prefer written information. I can search written information in a way that until very recently has not been possible with video/audio.

And also, my life is too short to view a 45 minute video on something i could probably read and understand in 10 minutes, without the obligatory introduction/self promotion/conclusion typically found in the video.

My initial thought is that there are already free extensions that do this by grabbing the YouTube transcript and feeding it to an LLM with a prompt.

I myself wrote my own unpublished browser extension to do this. Your extension name is great, however. This kind of extension has been super handy in seeing if a video is worth watching. It takes seconds to run.

Here's pretty much the prompt I use with a couple small personal things left out:

  Create a summary of a YouTube video using its transcript. You will use the following template:

  """
  ## Summary
  {Multiple sentences summarizing the YouTube video}

  ## Notes
  {Bullet points that summarize the key points or important moments from the video’s transcript with explanations}

  ## Quotes
  {Extract the best sentences from the transcript in a list}
  """

  Transcript:

I’ve been using the free tier of Gemini for exactly this, it can read and summarise YouTube videos by reading transcripts and the auto-generated CCs. Works really well!

You can just put this on gemini.google.com and it summarizes/Q&A.

"summarize this youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZprmAVkzRk"

People reinventing wheels at a pace never seen by mankind

I dont see this mentioned enough: https://github.com/danielmiessler/fabric

A location to track prompts for reuse by many people at the very least, specific tools including solving this exact same problem as well.

Even though i am very skeptical of all the ai-bull at the very least it needs some kind of global cache database where people share prompts, input and output examples, and human tagged information on how it works or doesnt work. maybe even linked to real testing on why/if putting in "take a step back and look at the results" type nonsense does anything at all

Some suggestions: I watched the movie and thought the “ask questions” part could be done better.

Going back a problem I often have: I search youtube movies for learning something and click through 4-5 movies until I find a good presenter, not just ads, well explained and good summarized. You might not be able to to a better search algorithm but you could think of on a specific topic summaries a few youtube movies and by this give a good suggestion which to look at/read the summary.

I just don't watch them. It almost always saves me time.

Does this work at all on those demonstration videos where the videographer is too shy to add a vocal track, and just demonstrates everything, sometimes with text?

Does it work for videos without auto generated sections like (Intro, etc..) I mean more so like for old videos without Labels or classification?

Could you offer this as a bookmarklet for folks not on chrome?

Looks like you’ve used ScreenRun for your video demo, thanks!