Turn one video into a week of content
A good talk or video already holds the ideas for an article, a newsletter and a dozen posts. Pull the transcript, hand it to your AI, and keep the timestamps so every quote links back to the moment it was said. The sample is a real transcript of Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford commencement speech.
In the sample · recorded October 21, 2026
- Video length
- 15 min
- Words in the transcript
- 2,298
- Words per minute
- 153
- Timed segments
- 110
- Chapters
- 5
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Content repurposing
Why it works.
Writing from a transcript is faster and more faithful than writing from memory. The ideas, phrases and stories are already there, in the speaker’s own words, and your AI only has to shape them for the new format.
The timed segments matter for quotes: you can point to the exact second a line was said, link to it with a timestamp, and cut the right clip for a short.
Who uses it
- Creators and podcasters who publish on more than one channel
- Marketing teams turning webinars into blog posts
- Ghostwriters and social media managers
Real sample
What the tool returned.
Transcript of “Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address” by Stanford.
Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
Stanford
- 0:07This program is brought to you by Stanford University.
- 0:10Please visit us at stanford.edu
- 0:22Thank You. I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world.
- 0:35Truth be told I never graduated from college and this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.
- 0:47Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.
- 0:55The first story is about connecting the dots.
- 1:01I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit.
- 1:09So why did I drop out? It started before I was born.
Chapters
- 0:00Chapter 1: Intro
- 1:50Chapter 2: College
- 5:38Chapter 3: Love Loss
- 9:04Chapter 4: Death
- 13:08Chapter 5: The Whole Earth Catalog
Input and raw JSON
The request body we sent. Long texts and lists in the result are shortened for this page.
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"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc"
]
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"channelUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/@stanford",
"durationSeconds": 904,
"language": null,
"languageMatched": true,
"text": "This program is brought to you by Stanford University. Please visit us at stanford.edu Thank You. I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told I never graduated from college and this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories. The first story is about connecting the dots. I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted…",
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"text": "This program is brought to you by Stanford University."
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"text": "So why did I drop out? It started before I was born."
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"text": "She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife."
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"text": "Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl."
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"text": "So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: \"We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?\""
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"scrapedAt": "2026-10-21T06:31:39.427Z"
}The fields that matter
What to look at first.
| Field | Why it matters here | In the sample |
|---|---|---|
| Texttext | The whole transcript as one text, ready for your AI. | This program is brought to you by Stanford University. Please visit u… |
| Segmentssegments | Each line with start and end time, for quotes and clips. | 110 entries |
| Chapterschapters | The video’s own structure, a ready outline. | 5 entries |
| Titletitle | For credits and source links. | Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address |
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Try it with your own video
- 01Paste the video link and get the transcript with segments.
- 02Ask your AI for the format you need: article, newsletter, posts.
- 03Use the timestamps to link quotes and cut clips.
Press “Run free” and the real result shows up here, exactly what your agent gets back.
Ask your agent
Or just ask.
“Get the transcript of this video and turn it into a 1,000-word blog post in my voice.”
“Pull 10 quotable lines from this talk, each with a timestamp link.”
“Make a LinkedIn post and an X thread from this webinar recording.”
Connect the tool to Claude, Cursor or any MCP client with your key and ask in plain words; your agent picks the tool by itself. Setup takes a minute: MCP guide. Prefer code? See the YouTube Transcripts API.
What it costs
Pay per result.
1credit for this sample
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Questions
Good to know.
Can I repurpose someone else’s video?
The transcript is the video’s own captions. Quoting with credit and a link is common practice; republishing someone’s full content needs their permission.
How do I link to the exact moment of a quote?
Every segment has a start time in seconds. Add “&t=123s” to the video link and it opens at that second.
Does it work for long videos?
Yes, length does not matter. A two-hour video is still one transcript and one credit.
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