# Summarise YouTube video | Shortcuts Library

> Takes a YouTube URL, downloads the video's transcript, and gets ChatGPT to summarise the contents

## What this shortcut does

Uses www.youtube-transcript.io (free)
Pre- version history:
• v5 (2025/03/01): Added steps to always run the latest version of the ChatGPT shortcut.
• v4 (2025/02/28): Added support for a stored API key and live / streamed videos.
• v3 (2025/02/27): Added option to paste a link if there's no shortcut input.
• v2 (2025/02/22): Added steps so that only one language is processed.
• v1 (2025/02/21): Base functionality.

## Compatibility

iPhone, iPad

## Required apps



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