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YouTube

Add YouTube videos to Mention by URL so their transcripts become part of your knowledge base. This is useful for public talks, recorded webinars, conference sessions, product demos, and any other spoken content that lives on YouTube.

What gets synced

Mention ingests the transcript of a YouTube video — not the video file itself.

  • Each video becomes a Video asset whose content is the transcript text.
  • YouTube auto-generated captions are usually sufficient; videos with no captions cannot be ingested.
  • The video itself is not stored or replayed by Mention — the transcript text is the content used for analysis and generation.

How to add a video

YouTube is added one video at a time, not through OAuth.

  1. Sign in as an admin and open Sources from the sidebar.
  2. Open the Videos section.
  3. Paste the YouTube URL and confirm.

Mention fetches the transcript and adds the video as an asset. Activate it like any other source item.

For the broader manual-sources flow (links and videos), see Manual Sources.

Things to know

  • Captions or auto-generated subtitles must be available in YouTube for the video to be ingestible.
  • If a video is later removed, made private, or has its captions disabled, future re-ingests will fail — the existing transcript stays in your asset list until you remove it.
  • For internally hosted recordings, use Google Drive (Google Meet transcripts) or Microsoft Teams (Teams meeting transcripts) instead.

Sync behavior

Videos are added on demand. There is no automated discovery from YouTube — each video must be added by URL. Mention re-checks the transcript on the daily sync schedule so corrections published by the uploader are picked up over time.

Activation limit

Activated YouTube videos count toward your active source items, alongside links and your other manual sources.