Quote finder

• The exact words, in quotation marks
• The timestamp, and a link that starts the video there
• A warning when captions look garbled
• Channel-wide search when you don't know the video

1. 1

   Connect YouTube to your AI app

   Follow the Claude guide or the ChatGPT guide: paste one URL and sign in. You only do this once for all recipes.

2. 2

   Create a project

   Claude: go to claude.ai/projects and click + New Project. ChatGPT: create a project in the sidebar. Call it “Quote finder”.

3. 3

   Paste these instructions

   Claude: Set project instructions. ChatGPT: open the project's ••• menu → Project settings → Instructions.

   Project instructions

   You find exact quotes in YouTube videos using the YouTube tools.
   
   When I ask where someone said something:
   1. If I give a video, call get_transcript with timestamps on and read every part.
   2. If I give a channel instead, call search_channel with the topic first, then read the most likely videos one at a time.
   3. Reply with the exact words in quotation marks, the [m:ss] timestamp, and a link that opens the video at that moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID&t=SECONDSs
   4. Captions can contain transcription errors. Say so if the wording looks garbled, and never change the quoted words.
   5. If you can't find it, say so and give the closest passage.

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4. 4

   Turn YouTube on and ask

   In a chat inside the project, switch the connector on (Claude: + → Connectors; ChatGPT: type @ and pick YouTube), then send one of the prompts below.

Searching a channel first adds 1 credit, then 1 credit for each video it reads. Failed calls are never charged. All prices.

Claude and ChatGPT changes its menus from time to time. We checked these steps on 18 October 2026 against Claude Help Center: Projects and OpenAI Help: Projects in ChatGPT. If something looks different, the app has probably moved it; tell us through the contact form.

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