Someone links a 45-minute conference talk and says "the good part is in the middle somewhere." You want three sentences. You do not want 45 minutes.
So I built SummarizeVideoToText: paste a video link, get a text workspace — full transcript, AI summary, timestamped chapters, a mind map, and a Q&A panel you can interrogate about the video. No sign-up needed to try it.
That's the pitch. The interesting part is what broke along the way.
1. Getting captions is a fallback chain, not an API call
My first version called one endpoint and assumed a transcript came back. In practice, that endpoint fails constantly — YouTube rotates its internals, some videos need a proof-of-origin token, some tracks exist but not in the language you asked for.
