How to use Grok Bot to clip YouTube podcasts by timestamp
KanekoaTheGreat sends Grok Bot a YouTube podcast link with start and end times, gets the HD clip in chat a few minutes later and has Researcher and Writer bots prepare quotes and a caption.
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Clip [YouTube link] from [start time] to [end time] in HD, send me the file, then pass it to my writer bot to transcribe it, pull the best quotes and draft a caption for me to review.
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- KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat)
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- KanekoaTheGreat says the exact HD clip is ready a few minutes after he asks, and his other bots then prepare quotes and a caption. No clip counts are given.
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- He chooses the video and timestamps. The post does not describe a review step before posting.
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How the agent did it
- He logged into his Google account on Grok Bot.
- He sends his Clipper bot a YouTube link and a start and end timestamp.
- The bot returns the HD clip in the chat a few minutes later.
@KanekoaTheGreat wrote that Grok Bot has made clipping YouTube podcasts easy for him. He sends a link with an instruction such as "Cut from 16:43 to 18:17", and a few minutes later the exact HD clip is ready in the chat.
The clip does not stop there. He says his Clipper bot passes it to his Researcher and Writer bots, which pull the best quotes and prepare the caption. In his words, he wanted for years to be able to tell an AI which part of a podcast he wanted and have it cut the HD clip, transcribe it and start preparing the post.
He says he did not write any code. His setup step was logging into his Google account on Grok Bot and asking it to clip a YouTube video, and he describes the workflow as simple for a non-coder.
The post gives one timestamp example and a few minutes as the turnaround. It does not say how many clips he has made, how the bots hand work to each other, or whether he edits the captions before posting.
Who it's for: People who post podcast clips on social media and want the cutting and caption prep done for them.
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Source: X · KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat)
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What does he send the bot?
A YouTube link and the start and end time, for example cut from 16:43 to 18:17.
What happens after the clip is cut?
He says the Clipper bot sends it to his Researcher and Writer bots, which pull quotes and prepare the caption.
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Remaining steps
- Researcher and Writer bots pull the best quotes and prepare the caption.
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The bots cut the clip, hand it between each other and draft quotes and a caption without further prompting.
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Credit: KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) — X
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Grok Bot · YouTube · Google
Podcast clips · YouTube · Video
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