Use Case

Turn YouTube Videos Into Newsletter Content

The Problem

Newsletter creators spend hours watching videos to summarize and reference them. Curating video content for email newsletters requires watching, note-taking, and manual writing. This limits the volume and quality of video-based content you can include.

The Solution

YouTubeTranscripts.co extracts the full text of any YouTube video in seconds. Feed the transcript into an LLM to generate summaries, key takeaways, and formatted newsletter sections automatically. Curate video content at 10x the speed.

Implementation Example

import httpx
from openai import OpenAI

API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY"

# Get transcript
resp = httpx.get(
    "https://api.youtubetranscripts.co/v1/transcript",
    params={"url": "https://youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID", "format": "text"},
    headers={"x-api-key": API_KEY},
)
video = resp.json()

# Generate newsletter section
client = OpenAI()
section = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="gpt-4o",
    messages=[
        {"role": "system", "content": "Create a newsletter section from this video transcript. Include: a catchy headline, 2-3 sentence summary, 3 key takeaways as bullet points, and a call-to-action to watch the video."},
        {"role": "user", "content": f"Video: {video['title']}\nChannel: {video['channel']}\n\n{video['text']}"},
    ],
)
print(section.choices[0].message.content)

Why Developers Choose YouTubeTranscripts.co

Convert video content to newsletter format in seconds

Generate summaries and key takeaways with AI

Curate 10x more video content per newsletter

Include accurate quotes from video transcripts

Batch process multiple videos for weekly roundups

Link back to videos with specific timestamps

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