YouTube Summary with ChatGPT

YouTube Summary with ChatGPT is a simple Chrome Extension (manifest v3) that allows you to get both YouTube video transcripts and summary of the video with OpenAI's ChatGPT AI technology. Chrome Extension is available on Chrome Web Store.

How to Install

To install this extension, follow these steps:

1. Download the code on GitHub.
2. Unzip the downloaded file.
3. Open the code in your favorite IDE like VS Code.
4. Run npm install in terminal

npm install

5. Run npm run build or npm run build-release to run webpack to generate dist folder.

npm run build
# or
npm run build-release

6. In case of Google Chrome, open the Extensions page (chrome://extensions/).
7. Turn on Developer mode by clicking the toggle switch in the top right corner of the page.
8. Click the Load unpacked button and select the dist directory.
9. YouTube Summary with ChatGPT extension should be installed and active!

How to Use

To use YouTube Summary with ChatGPT extension, follow these steps (or watch this video):

1. Go to any YouTube videos.
2. Click the small box on the right top that says Transcript & Summary.
3. Click View AI Summary button (It automatically copies the prompt for you and opens the ChatGPT page!)
4. Hit Cmd + V if you use Mac
5. You'll see a magic!

Notes

• According to OpenAI, ChatGPT is experiencing exceptionally high demand. They work on scaling their systems but I can't guarantee that ChatGPT keeps free and is open forever.
• This code manually fetches the YouTube video transcripts, and the platform might change the system so I also cannot guarantee that the YouTube video transcript code works forever. I'll try my best to keep updated!

Feedback & Support

If you have any questions or feedback about YouTube Summary with ChatGPT Extension, please reach out to me on Twitter. Also, I'm building Glasp, a social web annotation tool to build your own AI models to write, search, and summarize better. If you're interested, please check out Glasp.