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Train your chatbot on YouTube videos: product walkthroughs, webinars, and tutorials. SiteGPT learns from the video’s captions.
YouTube videos are added under Website Links, not Files & Data Sources: open Website Links → Add YouTube Videos.

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Add videos

1

Open the form

In your chatbot’s sidebar, open Website Links → Add YouTube Videos.
2

Paste YouTube URLs

Add one URL per line in the YouTube URLs field. Standard video URLs work (youtube.com/watch?v=... and youtu.be/...).
3

Start the import

Each video appears in Links List with a live training status, like any other link.

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Requirements and behavior

  • Videos must be public or unlisted. Private videos cannot be read.
  • Videos must have captions (automatic or uploaded). The transcript is what the chatbot learns; audio and visuals are not analyzed.
  • No YouTube account connection or API key is needed.
The most common cause is missing captions. Open the video on YouTube and check that captions can be turned on. If the video is private, make it unlisted or public first.
Automatic captions can contain recognition errors, and those errors flow into training. For important content, upload corrected captions to YouTube and resync the video.