How YouTube Livestream works

When you connect a YouTube livestream, CustomGPT starts transcribing it from that moment and keeps adding new content to your agent's knowledge base while the stream continues.

What gets captured

Only what's said from the moment you add the source onward is captured. Add the link before the event starts to capture the whole thing.

How it stays current while the stream is live

While a stream is live, CustomGPT checks for new content about once a minute. New speech is added as new sections on the same growing page.

What happens when the stream ends

The source stays as its own YouTube Livestream entry. For the complete recording, including anything said before you added the livestream source, connect the finished video separately with the YouTube source once YouTube has published it.

Pausing

Refer to [Manage a YouTube livestream source] to pause and resume following a stream.

How citations work

Every answer cites the moment in the stream it came from, the same way citations work for a regular YouTube video. Clicking one opens the stream at that timestamp.

Following more than one stream

Each livestream is its own source, so a multi-track event can have one source per track in the same agent, and your agent answers from all of them.

Difference from the YouTube source

The YouTube source reads finished videos, playlists, and channels. YouTube Livestream follows a stream that's live now or scheduled to go live, and keeps adding to it as the event happens. Refer to YouTube Livestream URL formats and limits for where each source applies.