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

1. Paste the video URL into Y/T_TRANSCRIPT and grab the transcript.
2. Generate a structured AI summary with bullets, chapters, and quotes.
3. Paste (or POST) the Markdown into a Notion page.

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 template that scales

Create a database called Video Library with these properties:

• Title — video title.
• URL (URL) — canonical YouTube link.
• Channel (select) — grouped for filtering.
• Duration (number, minutes).
• Tags (multi-select) — topic, project, or client.
• Status (select) — Inbox / Watched / Referenced.
• Added (date).

Each row's page body holds: TL;DR → Chapter summary → Key quotes → Full transcript (in a toggle). That layout keeps the database view clean while the transcript stays one click away for Ctrl+F.

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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