Chat with a YouTube Video
Paste a YouTube link and ask anything – Pepys answers from the video's captions, with the timestamps to prove it.
Accepts a public YouTube video link · returns answers grounded in the video's captions, with timestamps.
Works on public YouTube videos by reading their captions – Pepys is a captions tool, not a video downloader, and never saves the video or audio. To chat with a recording you own, upload the file instead.
60 min free · no card required · we never train on your audio
How do I chat with a YouTube video?
To chat with a YouTube video, paste the link into Pepys, which reads the captions and lets you ask questions in built-in chat. Every answer is grounded in the caption transcript and links to the moment it was said, in 99+ languages. No signup is needed to try it, and your first 60 minutes are free.
How chat with youtube video works
Paste the YouTube link
Copy a public YouTube video URL and paste it in – nothing to install.
Pepys reads the captions
We pull the video's captions into clean, timestamped text in seconds.
Ask your questions
Type questions in chat and get answers drawn from the captions, each linked to its timestamp.
A 90-minute lecture, podcast, or tutorial rarely needs a full watch when you have one question. Paste a YouTube link and chat with the video instead – "what's the three-step method they describe?", "summarize the part on taxes", "did they cite a study?" – and Pepys answers from the video's own captions.
Because chat is grounded in the caption transcript, every answer reflects what was said and clicks straight to that timestamp. It works in 99+ languages and ships with an AI summary, so one video becomes notes, a recap, and an interrogable Q&A. Free to try with no signup; your first 60 minutes are free and credits never expire.
Clean paragraphs. No more um's and ah's.
The left is what Pepys hands back – logical paragraphs with the filler stripped out, punctuated and readable. The right is the raw, one-line-per-segment dump most transcribers leave you with.
um so yeah everyone keeps telling you to like lead with your best line right but uh honestly if you give away the whole answer in the first second you know there's basically no reason for anyone to keep watching so the hook isn't kind of the smartest thing you say it's like a loop you open that they need to close and um that's the part that actually keeps people around
RawAsk a long video directly instead of scrubbing for the one answer you need
Answers are grounded in the captions, each with a timestamp you can click
AI summary and full searchable transcript included alongside chat
99+ languages, auto-detected · pay as you go, credits never expire
Any language – 99+ detected automatically
- English
- 中文
- Español
- العربية
- हिन्दी
- Français
- 日本語
- Português
- Русский
- Deutsch
- 한국어
- Italiano
- বাংলা
- Türkçe
- فارسی
- Tiếng Việt
- தமிழ்
- Polski
- ไทย
- Українська
- Nederlands
- עברית
- Ελληνικά
- తెలుగు
- Bahasa Indonesia
- اردو
- Svenska
- मराठी
- Română
- Magyar
- Čeština
- ગુજરાતી
- Kiswahili
- ქართული
- Tagalog
- አማርኛ
Works with the platforms you live in.
Paste a link from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts – or drop in any audio or video file. We transcribe it once, then you export it however your workflow needs.
- YouTube
- TikTok
- Spotify
- Apple Podcasts
- or any file
Export to any format
- TXT
- Markdown
- DOCX
- SRT
- VTT
- JSON
Timestamps, speaker labels, and subtitle timing carry through to every export.
Chat with youtube video – questions, answered
How do I chat with a YouTube video?
Paste the public YouTube link on this page. Pepys reads the captions, then you type questions in chat and get answers from the transcript. No signup is needed to try it.
Where do the answers come from?
Chat is grounded in the video's captions, not the open web, so every answer reflects what was actually said and links to the timestamp where you can hear it.
Does this download the video?
No. Pepys reads the video's captions to power chat – it never downloads or saves the video or audio.
What if the video has no captions?
If a public video has no captions available, there's no caption text to chat with. For your own recordings, upload the file and Pepys will transcribe the audio directly.
Can I chat with a video in another language?
Yes. Pepys handles 99+ languages, so you can ask questions about a video in any language and translate the transcript too.
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