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AI video summarizer. Transcript-first.

Most "AI video summaries" are invented from a title. Ours start from the actual words of the video. Paste a link, get the transcript (usually in seconds for a video, a minute or two for a podcast episode), then summarize, chat and pull verbatim quotes.

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A real grab, not a screenshot

This is a live transcript pulled by the same engine that serves your link — from vimeo.com/76979871, 124 words, English captions, no account. This is the text the summary is built from.

$clawgrab --grab https://vimeo.com/76979871
"Here at Vimeo, there's always one thing on our minds: how to make your videos look amazing, wherever they appear. The quality of our player was already the best in the galaxy, but we wanted to make the best thing about Vimeo even better, so…"
… [124 words · EN · a few seconds]
▸ summary: Vimeo's player was already "the best in the galaxy", so they rebuilt it — to make the best thing about their product even better across every platform.
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How transcript-first summaries work

Every summary is only as good as the text it starts from. We get the words first, then let the AI do its job.

  1. Paste the link

    A video or podcast link — YouTube, TikTok, Vimeo, an Apple Podcasts episode, or a 12k-word live stream.

  2. Get the real text

    ClawGrab usually pulls a video transcript in seconds; a podcast episode takes a minute or two. Caption-bearing videos return the publisher's captions verbatim — no hallucination possible.

  3. Summarize, chat, quote

    Key points, a written summary, a Q&A chat about the content, or verbatim quotes for citations and show notes.

What are you actually getting?

A summary you can trust, because the words came first.

  • Journalists

    Quote verbatim from interviews and press briefs. The summary gives you the gist; the transcript gives you the exact phrasing.

  • Students

    Skim a 45-minute lecture in 2 minutes flat — then go to the transcript for the parts that matter.

  • Creators

    Turn a long video into chapter ideas, clips and social posts — from your own actual words.

  • Researchers

    Ask the content questions — "what did they say about pricing?" — and get answers grounded in the real text.

FAQ

The honest answers.

How is this different from other AI video summarizers?

Most summarizers build a summary from the video's title, thumbnail or a couple of seconds of audio. ClawGrab builds it from the full transcript — the publisher's captions verbatim where they exist, speech-to-text elsewhere. The summary is grounded in what was actually said.

Is the summary accurate?

Embedded in the transcript. For caption-bearing videos, the text is the publisher's own words — no invention. For no-caption videos, speech-to-text is good on clean audio but imperfect on music, accents and overlapping speech; we flag those limits instead of pretending. No honest tool can promise a perfect 100% summary.

Which platforms work?

YouTube, TikTok, Vimeo, SoundCloud, podcasts, live streams. A small share of videos block transcripts at the platform level (music, live-only, password-gated) and we report exactly what happened rather than returning garbage.

Is it free?

ClawGrab is free during the beta (fair-use daily limit) — no card, no account needed to start. Nothing is for sale right now.

The words first.
The summary will follow.

Paste one link. Get the real text. Ask it anything.