# YouTube Video Summarizer

> Timestamped key points from any YouTube video, most in under 15 seconds, in 113 languages. No captions? Shorty transcribes the audio. Free, no login.

Page: https://aishorty.com/youtube-video-summarizer

## Frequently asked questions

### How does Shorty summarize a YouTube video?

Shorty reads a YouTube video's transcript and, when a video has no captions, transcribes its audio with a speech-to-text model on our servers instead. It then returns a structured summary with key points and section breakdowns, rather than a single paragraph.

### Can I jump to a part of the video from the summary?

Yes. Every section of a Shorty YouTube summary carries the timestamp where that part of the video starts, and clicking it plays the embedded video from that moment.

### Which YouTube links can Shorty summarize?

Shorty summarizes a single video from a watch link, a youtu.be share link, a Shorts link, an embed link or a live-stream link (once it has finished airing). Channel pages and playlists are not single videos, and private, deleted, age-restricted or region-locked videos cannot be read.

### Do I need an account to summarize YouTube videos?

No. Shorty summarizes YouTube videos without an account and without a credit card. Signing in only adds a saved, searchable history of everything you have summarized.

### Is Shorty free to use?

Yes. Shorty is free to use and does not require an account for the summarizer tools — paste or upload something and read the result. A free Shorty account keeps your history in a searchable library, and paid Premium and Pro plans raise the size and volume limits.

### Does a failed job still use up my quota?

No. A Shorty job that ends in an error or is cancelled never counts against a quota — the usage is refunded automatically, so a failure costs nothing.

### What language is the summary written in?

Shorty writes the summary in the language you pick from its menu of 113 languages, English unless you choose another, whatever language the source itself is in.

### Does Shorty have an API?

Yes. Shorty has a public REST API at https://aishorty.com/v1, an official TypeScript SDK (@aishorty/sdk), and an OAuth 2.1 MCP server at https://aishorty.com/api/mcp that lets Claude and other AI assistants summarize, transcribe and search on your behalf.

## About Shorty

Shorty is an AI summarizer and transcription app by Devino that turns YouTube videos, podcasts, webpages, PDFs, Word documents, audio files and pasted text into structured summaries, and also transcribes media, generates subtitles, and converts or compresses files.

- All summarizers: https://aishorty.com/summarizers
- Plans and limits: https://aishorty.com/premium
- Documentation: https://aishorty.com/docs (every page has a .md twin)
- Public API (OpenAPI 3.1): https://aishorty.com/openapi.json
- MCP server: https://aishorty.com/api/mcp (card: https://aishorty.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json)
- What Shorty is and is not: https://aishorty.com/llms.txt