Extract YouTube Video Data to Notion
Extract video metadata and transcript from any YouTube video. AI summarizes the content, identifies key topics with timestamps, and saves everything to Notion.
How It Works
Connect your Notion workspace to Harvist. We'll create a video database with the right columns.
Copy the URL of any YouTube video you want to extract data from.
Click 'Run' and Harvist will extract the transcript, metadata, and generate an AI summary with key topics.
Your video summary, key topics with timestamps, and metadata are now in your Notion database.
What You Get in Notion
Harvist creates a Notion database with these columns, automatically populated with AI-extracted data:
| Property | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Title | title | Video title |
| Channel | text | YouTube channel name |
| Duration | text | Video duration |
| Published | date | Video publish date |
| Summary | text | AI-generated summary of the video |
| Key Topics | multi-select | Main topics covered in the video |
| Timestamps | text | Key moments with timestamps |
| Thumbnail | url | Video thumbnail URL |
| Video URL | url | Original YouTube video URL |
| Extracted At | date | Timestamp of extraction |
Upsert key: Video URL — if an entry with the same video url exists, it will be updated instead of duplicated.
Who Uses This
Content creators building research databases
Students summarizing lecture videos
Researchers tracking video content
Teams documenting webinar takeaways
Pricing
Each run costs 1 credit per URL. The free plan includes monthly credits — no credit card required. Paid plans with higher limits are coming soon.
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How It Works
- 1
Connect Notion
Connect your Notion workspace to Harvist. We'll create a video database with the right columns.
- 2
Paste the YouTube URL
Copy the URL of any YouTube video you want to extract data from.
- 3
Run the template
Click 'Run' and Harvist will extract the transcript, metadata, and generate an AI summary with key topics.
- 4
Check Notion
Your video summary, key topics with timestamps, and metadata are now in your Notion database.
Who Uses This
Content creators building research databases
Students summarizing lecture videos
Researchers tracking video content
Teams documenting webinar takeaways
Frequently Asked Questions
- Does Harvist extract the full video transcript?
- Yes, Harvist extracts the complete transcript (or auto-generated captions if manual captions aren't available), then summarizes it into a concise overview with key topics and timestamps.
- What YouTube video data does Harvist capture?
- Harvist captures the video title, channel name, duration, publish date, thumbnail, transcript summary, key topics, and timestamps for important moments.
- Can I use this for private or unlisted videos?
- Currently, Harvist can only extract data from publicly accessible YouTube videos. Private and some unlisted videos may not be accessible.
- How accurate are the AI-generated summaries?
- Our AI uses GPT-4o-mini to analyze the full transcript and produce accurate, concise summaries. The quality depends on the transcript quality, which is generally very good for videos with manual captions.