Summarize any YouTube video into a Notion page.

Why pair a YouTube video summarizer with Notion?

Notion is where knowledge sticks — it's searchable, linkable, and durable. YouTube is where a huge chunk of research, product teardowns, lectures, and interviews live. Copy-pasting captions by hand doesn't scale past a couple of videos. A youtube to transcript pipeline feeding straight into Notion turns hours of video into a queryable library you can quote, tag, and revisit.

• Full transcripts, not just the first 4 minutes — Y/T_TRANSCRIPT streams complete captions.
• Timestamps preserved so you can jump back to the exact moment.
• Markdown output that Notion accepts natively — no reformatting.
• Works for lectures, podcasts, keynotes, and multi-hour interviews.

The three-step workflow

Pull the full transcript

Open the transcript tool, paste the YouTube URL, and pick your caption language. Y/T_TRANSCRIPT reads the whole caption track — no 4-minute cap, no arbitrary limits — and returns timestamped lines you can copy or download as Markdown, SRT, VTT, or JSON.

For a research workflow, export as Markdown with timestamps. Notion will render the timestamps as plain text you can search against later.

Summarize with structure

A wall of transcript is worse than no notes. Use the summarizer to condense the transcript into:

• TL;DR — a two-sentence hook for the top of the Notion page.
• Chapter summaries — one paragraph per section, with the starting timestamp.
• Key quotes — verbatim lines worth citing later.
• Action items — anything the speaker recommends doing.

This structure maps 1:1 to Notion toggles and callouts, so the page stays scannable even for 90-minute talks.

Push to Notion

Two options depending on how often you do this:

A Notion database setup that scales

Create a database called Video Library and configure it exactly like this. Copy the property table below — it is the whole template.

Three views worth creating

• Inbox — Table view, filter Status = Inbox, sorted by Added descending. Your watch queue.
• By topic — Board view grouped by Tags. Best for pulling every video on one theme before writing.
• Quick reference — Gallery view with the Summary property shown on the card, filtered to Status = Referenced.

Page body layout

Each row's page body holds, in order: TL;DR callout → Chapter summary (H2 per chapter with its timestamp) → Key quotes as a quote block → Full transcript inside a collapsed toggle. That keeps the database view clean while the transcript stays one click away for Ctrl+F.

> 💡 TL;DR — attention is just weighted lookup across tokens.

## 00:00 — Why sequence models struggled
...

## 07:12 — Self-attention, intuitively
...

> "You can think of a query as asking every other token a question."

▸ Full transcript   (toggle — paste the Markdown export here)

Want it repeatable? Open the database, click New → ⚙ New template, build the layout above once, and name it "Video note". Every new row starts pre-structured.

Automating with the API

For research teams processing dozens of videos, script it. Here's the end-to-end shape using Y/T_TRANSCRIPT and the Notion API:

// 1. Get transcript + summary from Y/T_TRANSCRIPT
const t = await fetch("https://api.yt-transcript.dev/v1/transcript", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${YT_KEY}`, "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({ videoId, lang: "en" }),
}).then(r => r.json());

const s = await fetch("https://api.yt-transcript.dev/v1/summarize", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${YT_KEY}`, "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({ transcript: t.text, format: "chapters" }),
}).then(r => r.json());

// 2. Create a Notion page in your Video Library database
await fetch("https://api.notion.com/v1/pages", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${NOTION_TOKEN}`,
    "Notion-Version": "2022-06-28",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    parent: { database_id: DB_ID },
    properties: {
      Title: { title: [{ text: { content: t.title } }] },
      URL:   { url: `https://youtu.be/${videoId}` },
    },
    children: markdownToNotionBlocks(s.markdown),
  }),
});

Run it from a cron, a Zap, or a Notion button — the shape stays the same.

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