Cameron said:
Akira said:
Hey everyone, like the title says, I’m looking for the best AI tool to summarize YouTube videos into text. I need something that works well for long videos. Free is preferred, but it’s okay if it’s not, as long as the quality is good. Could be a website, extension, or app—just something you keep coming back to.
I wrote a Python script that grabs the YouTube transcript, sends it to OpenAI’s API (using my key), and turns it into a summary with bullet points. If anyone wants it, I can share it (will need to remove my API key first).
I have a question about API keys. I pay $20 a month; does that give me an API key? If I use it for something with a lot of characters, is it expensive? Can you pick the model?
Good questions! If you pay for ChatGPT Plus, you need to activate the API separately, and they’ll use your card on file. You can find more info here: https://platform.openai.com/.
The API pricing depends on the model you use. For example, ‘gpt-4o-mini’ is cheaper. It costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens. That’s about 750,000 words, which costs 15 cents for input and 60 cents for output.
To set up, you deposit funds into your API account. I put in $25, and I’m still at $24.20 after a few months.
Hope this helps!