---
title: "YouTube video recap from subtitles, saved and pushed your way"
description: "Recap this YouTube video for me — pull the subtitles, give me a detailed chapter-by-chapter recap with key quotes, and both save it as a Markdown file and send it to my channel."
canonical: "https://hub.ironclaw.com/usecases/youtube-video-recap-from-subtitles-saved-and-pushed-your-way"
markdown: "https://hub.ironclaw.com/usecases/youtube-video-recap-from-subtitles-saved-and-pushed-your-way.md"
type: "use-case"
categories: ["Personal assistant","Research","Marketing / content","Files / knowledge"]
author: "kent"
---

# YouTube video recap from subtitles, saved and pushed your way

## Example Prompt

> Recap this YouTube video for me — pull the subtitles, give me a detailed chapter-by-chapter recap with key quotes, and both save it as a Markdown file and send it to my channel.

## What the Agent Does

The user pastes a YouTube video URL. The agent fetches the video's subtitles (auto-generated or manual captions) via the YouTube transcript API, normalizes the text, and asks the user two things: 1) what audience this recap is for (personal catch-up, content research, team share, etc.) and 2) where they want the recap delivered (saved locally as a Markdown file, pushed to their default channel, or both). It then produces a detailed recap broken into chapters with timestamps, key takeaways per chapter, and notable direct quotes. If the user picks "save locally" or "both", it writes a clean `.md` file (frontmatter with video title, channel, URL, date, and a one-line summary) to a sensible path. If the user picks "push to channel" or "both", it posts the recap to the user's default output channel so they can read it from anywhere.

## Skills and Tools

- youtube-transcript
- message
- file-write
- Chapter segmenter
- Quote extractor

## Categories

- Personal assistant
- Research
- Marketing / content
- Files / knowledge

## Links

- [HTML page](https://hub.ironclaw.com/usecases/youtube-video-recap-from-subtitles-saved-and-pushed-your-way)