Video Summary ChatGPT Plugin Tutorial, Use Cases & Prompts

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Do you want to learn more about the Video Summary ChatGPT Plugin?

In this ChatGPT plugin tutorial, we are going to show you how to use the Video Summary ChatGPT Plugin, how to install the plugin, and what the Video Summary ChatGPT Plugin can do.

We are also going to explain what to do when this ChatGPT plugin is not working and anything else important that you need to know about the Video Summary ChatGPT Plugin.

What can you do with the Video Summary ChatGPT Plugin?

The Video Summary ChatGPT Plugin allows ChatGPT to interact with external applications to generate summaries from YouTube video URLs. It provides various use cases such as:

1. Summarizing the key points: The plugin can generate a concise summary of the main ideas and important information covered in a YouTube video.

2. Providing highlights: It can extract and present the most interesting or noteworthy parts of a YouTube video.

3. Giving a summary of the content: The plugin can offer a brief overview of the entire content covered in a YouTube video.

4. Summarizing for time-constrained individuals: It can generate a summary for someone who doesn’t have enough time to watch the whole video, allowing them to grasp the main points quickly.

5. Identifying the main content: The plugin helps in determining the primary subject or focus of a YouTube video.

6. Offering a quick overview: It can provide a brief summary that gives an idea of what the YouTube video is about.

7. Extracting key takeaways: The plugin can identify and present the essential lessons, insights, or key information from a YouTube video.

8. Transcribing main points: It can convert the main points or important details from a YouTube video into text format.

9. Providing a detailed summary: The plugin can generate a comprehensive summary that covers all the significant aspects of a YouTube video.

In summary, the Video Summary ChatGPT Plugin enables ChatGPT to interact with external applications to summarize YouTube videos, making it useful for extracting key information, providing highlights, and offering brief or detailed summaries for various purposes.

How to use the Video Summary ChatGPT Plugin?

Here is how to use the Video Summary ChatGPT Plugin:

  1. Open the ChatGPT website
  2. Sign in to your ChatGPT account
  3. Make sure that you have enabled ChatGPT plugins in your account.
  4. Select GPT-4 model from the model selector.
  5. Click on the ChatGPT plugin icon
  6. Select Plugin store.
  7. Search for the Video Summary ChatGPT Plugin
  8. Click on ‘Install’ to add the Video Summary ChatGPT Plugin to your ChatGPT account.

Now, also make sure that if you want to use the Video Summary ChatGPT Plugin, you have to use the GPT-4 model and you also have to enable the plugin. (currently, only 3 ChatGPT plugins can be enabled at the same time).

Now, all you have to do is use a Video Summary ChatGPT Plugin prompt to activate the plugin.

If you are not sure what plugin prompts you can use to activate the Video Summary ChatGPT Plugin, make sure to check out our ChatGPT plugin database here.

Can’t install the Video Summary ChatGPT Plugin

If you can’t install the Video Summary ChatGPT Plugin, here is how to troubleshoot and find out why you can’t install and use this specific plugin.

1.Make sure you have upgraded to a GPT Plus subscription as ChatGPT plugins are currently only available for Plus subscribers

2. Next, you also have to make sure that the ChatGPT plugins are enabled in your ChatGPT account.

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3. It is possible that the Video Summary ChatGPT Plugin is not available in the ChatGPT plugin store anymore temporarily because of some technical issues with the integration.

If you have already installed the Video Summary ChatGPT Plugin but it still not generating the right response, check out the next section.

Video Summary ChatGPT Plugin not working – how to fix it?

If the Video Summary ChatGPT Plugin is not working properly or you get error messages instead of a ChatGPT response, here are some ways to fix it.

  1. Click on the ‘Regenerate response’ button

Keep in mind that the ChatGPT plugin is still a beta feature, so bugs and other technical issues can occur frequently when you try to make any ChatGPT plugin work.

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However, in a lot of cases, the ‘Regenerate response’ button can help you fix a lot of errors.

  1. Check if you have selected the ChatGPT plugin mode

Once you have installed the Video Summary ChatGPT Plugin, you also have to make sure you are using the Plugin mode in ChatGPT if you want to use the Video Summary ChatGPT Plugin

Currently, the browsing mode and the plugin mode can’t be used at the same time as you can see on this screenshot:

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  1. Make sure you have enabled the Video Summary ChatGPT Plugin

Once you have selected the plugin mode, also make sure you have enabled the ChatGPT plugin.

Keep in mind that only three ChatGPT plugins can be enabled at the same time.

  1. Video Summary ChatGPT Plugin giving me a bad response or output.

If you can’t get the Video Summary ChatGPT Plugin to give you the desired output, the easiest method is to ask ChatGPT directly using the GPT-4 model how to get better responses from the Video Summary ChatGPT Plugin.

  1. Check other reasons why ChatGPT is not working

It is also possible that there aren’t any issues with the Video Summary ChatGPT Plugin, but ChatGPT has some technical issues in general. So as a best practice test, if ChatGPT is working without the plugin mode enabled.

If ChatGPT without the plugin mode enabled is not giving you a response as well, then most likely the bug is not related to the Video Summary ChatGPT Plugin.

How to uninstall Video Summary ChatGPT Plugin?

If you no longer want to use the Video Summary ChatGPT Plugin, here is how to uninstall it:

  1. Open and sign in to ChatGPT.
  2. Select GPT-4 model from the model selector.
  3. Click on the ChatGPT plugin icon
  4. Select Plugin store.
  5. Search for the Video Summary ChatGPT Plugin
  6. Click on ‘Uninstall’ to remove the Video Summary ChatGPT Plugin.

Official description of the Video Summary ChatGPT Plugin in the plugin store

Summarize YouTube video highlights. Generate summaries from YouTube video URLs.

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