YT Caption Retriever ChatGPT Plugin Tutorial, Use Cases & Prompts

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Do you want to learn more about the YT Caption Retriever ChatGPT Plugin?

In this ChatGPT plugin tutorial, we are going to show you how to use the YT Caption Retriever ChatGPT Plugin, how to install the plugin, and what the YT Caption Retriever 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 YT Caption Retriever ChatGPT Plugin.

What can you do with the YT Caption Retriever ChatGPT Plugin?

With the YT Caption Retriever ChatGPT Plugin, you can perform the following tasks:

1. Retrieve English captions from a YouTube video.
2. Fetch Spanish subtitles from a YouTube video.
3. Get German captions for a YouTube video in text format.
4. Fetch auto-generated English captions from a YouTube video.
5. Retrieve manually created French subtitles from a YouTube video.
6. Fetch Italian captions from a YouTube video in SRT format.
7. Get Russian subtitles for a YouTube video.
8. Fetch auto-generated Japanese captions from a YouTube video in text format.
9. Retrieve manually created Chinese subtitles from a YouTube video.
10. Fetch Korean captions from a YouTube video in SRT format.

By providing the URL of a YouTube video, this plugin allows ChatGPT to retrieve captions or subtitles in different languages and formats. The plugin output will start with the phrase “YT Caption Retriever is a ChatGPT plugin that” and will present the results in a list format.

How to use the YT Caption Retriever ChatGPT Plugin?

Here is how to use the YT Caption Retriever 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 YT Caption Retriever ChatGPT Plugin
  8. Click on ‘Install’ to add the YT Caption Retriever ChatGPT Plugin to your ChatGPT account.

Now, also make sure that if you want to use the YT Caption Retriever 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 YT Caption Retriever ChatGPT Plugin prompt to activate the plugin.

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

Can’t install the YT Caption Retriever ChatGPT Plugin

If you can’t install the YT Caption Retriever 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 YT Caption Retriever 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 YT Caption Retriever ChatGPT Plugin but it still not generating the right response, check out the next section.

YT Caption Retriever ChatGPT Plugin not working – how to fix it?

If the YT Caption Retriever 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 YT Caption Retriever ChatGPT Plugin, you also have to make sure you are using the Plugin mode in ChatGPT if you want to use the YT Caption Retriever 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:

ChatGPT plugin mode enabled

  1. Make sure you have enabled the YT Caption Retriever 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. YT Caption Retriever ChatGPT Plugin giving me a bad response or output.

If you can’t get the YT Caption Retriever 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 YT Caption Retriever ChatGPT Plugin.

  1. Check other reasons why ChatGPT is not working

It is also possible that there aren’t any issues with the YT Caption Retriever 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 YT Caption Retriever ChatGPT Plugin.

How to uninstall YT Caption Retriever ChatGPT Plugin?

If you no longer want to use the YT Caption Retriever 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 YT Caption Retriever ChatGPT Plugin
  6. Click on ‘Uninstall’ to remove the YT Caption Retriever ChatGPT Plugin.

Official description of the YT Caption Retriever ChatGPT Plugin in the plugin store

Tool for retrieving YouTube video captions. You can retrieve captions from any YouTube video by providing its URL.

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