# YouTube as a Gemini Notebook source

> Lectures, talks and interviews — paste the video URL. For whole channels or playlists, see the tools page.


_Markdown version of https://gemini-notebook-hub.online/sources/youtube — for AI and LLM crawlers. Content is identical to the web page._

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- Site: [youtube.com](https://www.youtube.com/)
- Category: Video & audio
- Access: free

Lectures, talks and interviews — paste the video URL. For whole channels or playlists, see the tools page.

It holds a huge amount of primary spoken material — conference talks, interviews, raw footage — that was never written up as text anywhere else, which makes it useful for a notebook grounded in what someone said, not how a journalist paraphrased it. Auto-generated captions can mangle technical terms, names and jargon, so verify anything you'd want to quote directly. For a whole channel or playlist rather than a single video, check the tools page for a better import path.

## Import into Gemini Notebook

1. Copy the link: https://www.youtube.com/
2. In your notebook, click Add source → Website.
3. Paste the link and confirm — several links can be pasted at once, one per line.

**Tip:** Public YouTube videos with captions import as sources directly, with timestamped citations. For podcasts, upload the audio file — Gemini Notebook transcribes it.

## More video & audio sources

- [TED](https://gemini-notebook-hub.online/sources/ted.md) — Every talk has a full transcript page — paste that URL for a cleaner import than the video.
- [Podcast episodes](https://gemini-notebook-hub.online/sources/podcast-episodes.md) — Find the episode, download the audio file, upload it as a source — long interviews become quotable, searchable text.
- [Pocket Casts](https://gemini-notebook-hub.online/sources/pocket-casts.md) — Podcast app with strong discovery for expert shows. Use it to find episodes, then feed transcripts or show-notes pages into your notebook.
- [Spotify Podcasts](https://gemini-notebook-hub.online/sources/spotify-podcasts.md) — Massive podcast catalog with expert interviews on nearly any subject. Audio can't be imported directly — look for episode transcripts or show notes instead.
- [Substack](https://gemini-notebook-hub.online/sources/substack.md) — Home of independent expert newsletters on finance, tech, science and more. Individual post URLs import as Website sources; some posts sit behind paywalls.
- [Vimeo](https://gemini-notebook-hub.online/sources/vimeo.md) — Indie film, documentaries, and design reels without the ad noise. Gemini Notebook can't ingest Vimeo video directly, so pair clips with transcripts.