AI Video Summaries

Archivarix Tube Search can generate AI-powered summaries of YouTube videos — including deleted ones, as long as subtitles are available. Each summary includes a TL;DR, key points with timestamps, a detailed summary, and auto-generated topic tags.

What You Get

TL;DR — a concise one-paragraph summary of the entire video
Key Points — important moments with clickable timestamps that link to the exact position on YouTube
Detailed Summary — a comprehensive breakdown of the video content
Tags — auto-detected topics for easy browsing and discovery
Multi-language — summaries are generated in the language of the video's subtitles

Who Can Generate Summaries

Feature	Anonymous	Registered	Plus	MCP + API
Read existing summaries	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Generate public summaries	—	—	10/day	50/day
Generate private summaries	—	—	—	50/day
Regenerate summaries	—	—	—	Yes
Custom prompts (MCP)	—	—	—	Coming soon

How to Generate a Summary

Find a video with subtitles

Search for a video by channel, URL, or text. Videos that can be summarized show a "Summarize" link in the search results. The video must have available subtitles (shown as a "Subtitles" link).

Click "Summarize"

Click the "Summarize" link next to any video. The AI will fetch the subtitles, analyze the content, and generate a full summary. This usually takes 30–120 seconds depending on the video length.

Read your summary

Once generated, you'll see the complete summary with TL;DR, key points, detailed analysis, and tags. The summary is saved and accessible to everyone via the Summaries page.

Summary page with TL;DR, key points and tags

You can find all existing summaries on the AI Video Summaries browsing page — filter by language, topic, or channel.

Public vs. Private Summaries

Public summaries (default for Plus users) are visible to everyone and appear in the summary browse page and search results.

Private summaries (available for MCP + API tier) are visible only to you. They are stored separately and won't appear in public listings or sitemaps.

To switch between public and private mode:

Go to your Profile → Account tab
Find the "AI Summary Generation" section
Toggle between Public and Private

All summaries you generate appear in your Profile → Summaries tab, where you can switch between viewing public and private summaries.

Private summaries will support custom prompts and extended output via MCP in a future update — enabling detailed verbatim transcriptions, custom analysis angles, and more.

Requirements

Subtitles must be available — the AI generates summaries from subtitle text. Videos without subtitles cannot be summarized.
Live videos — subtitles are fetched on-demand from YouTube via yt-dlp.
Deleted videos — only if subtitles were previously fetched and saved in our database. You can check by looking for the "Subtitles" link in search results.
Video duration — very short videos (under 1 minute) or extremely long ones (over 3 hours) may be filtered out by the pre-filter.

Browse Summaries

Visit the AI Video Summaries page to browse all public summaries. You can filter by:

Language — find summaries in English, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, and more
Topic tags — comedy, education, gaming, travel, and dozens of other categories
Channel — see all summaries from a specific YouTube channel
Search — full-text search across summary titles and tags

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Browse Summaries

Explore all AI-generated video summaries by language, topic, or channel.

Create an Account

Download Subtitles

Learn about subtitle availability — required for AI summary generation.

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