diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 30fbbeaf..66cd4bdb 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 ## 0.12.1 - UNRELEASED
 
+### Fixes
+
+- YouTube: keep Gemini-only no-caption runs on the transcription path by forwarding the Google API key from the top-level URL flow into link-preview transcription config (#148, thanks @bytrangle).
+
 ## 0.12.0 - 2026-03-11
 
 ### Features
diff --git a/src/run/flows/url/flow.ts b/src/run/flows/url/flow.ts
index 5c431fa8..5695896d 100644
--- a/src/run/flows/url/flow.ts
+++ b/src/run/flows/url/flow.ts
@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ export async function runUrlFlow({
       groqApiKey: model.apiStatus.groqApiKey,
       assemblyaiApiKey: model.apiStatus.assemblyaiApiKey,
       openaiApiKey: model.apiStatus.openaiTranscriptionKey,
+      geminiApiKey: model.apiStatus.googleApiKey,
     },
     scrapeWithFirecrawl,
     convertHtmlToMarkdown: markdown.convertHtmlToMarkdown,
diff --git a/tests/run.url-flow.gemini-transcription-forwarding.test.ts b/tests/run.url-flow.gemini-transcription-forwarding.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..85928745
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/run.url-flow.gemini-transcription-forwarding.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+import { mkdtempSync } from "node:fs";
+import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+import { afterEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+import type { CacheState } from "../src/cache.js";
+import type { ExtractedLinkContent } from "../src/content/index.js";
+import type { LinkPreviewClientOptions } from "../src/content/index.js";
+import { createDaemonUrlFlowContext } from "../src/daemon/flow-context.js";
+
+const mocks = vi.hoisted(() => {
+  const fetchLinkContent = vi.fn<(url: string) => Promise<ExtractedLinkContent>>();
+  const createLinkPreviewClient = vi.fn((options?: LinkPreviewClientOptions) => ({
+    fetchLinkContent: async (url: string) => fetchLinkContent(url),
+    options,
+  }));
+  return { fetchLinkContent, createLinkPreviewClient };
+});
+
+vi.mock("../src/content/index.js", () => ({
+  createLinkPreviewClient: mocks.createLinkPreviewClient,
+}));
+
+import { runUrlFlow } from "../src/run/flows/url/flow.js";
+
+afterEach(() => {
+  vi.clearAllMocks();
+});
+
+describe("runUrlFlow transcription wiring", () => {
+  it("forwards googleApiKey into link preview transcription config", async () => {
+    const root = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "summarize-gemini-url-flow-"));
+    const url = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhAbp3iQA44";
+    const cache: CacheState = {
+      mode: "bypass",
+      store: null,
+      ttlMs: 0,
+      maxBytes: 0,
+      path: null,
+    };
+
+    mocks.fetchLinkContent.mockResolvedValueOnce({
+      url,
+      title: "Video",
+      description: null,
+      siteName: "YouTube",
+      content: "Transcript text",
+      truncated: false,
+      totalCharacters: 15,
+      wordCount: 2,
+      transcriptCharacters: 15,
+      transcriptLines: 1,
+      transcriptWordCount: 2,
+      transcriptSource: "yt-dlp",
+      transcriptionProvider: "gemini-2.5-flash",
+      transcriptMetadata: null,
+      transcriptSegments: null,
+      transcriptTimedText: null,
+      mediaDurationSeconds: 120,
+      video: { kind: "youtube", url },
+      isVideoOnly: false,
+      diagnostics: {
+        strategy: "html",
+        firecrawl: {
+          attempted: false,
+          used: false,
+          cacheMode: "bypass",
+          cacheStatus: "bypassed",
+          notes: null,
+        },
+        markdown: {
+          requested: false,
+          used: false,
+          provider: null,
+          notes: null,
+        },
+        transcript: {
+          cacheMode: "bypass",
+          cacheStatus: "unknown",
+          textProvided: true,
+          provider: "yt-dlp",
+          attemptedProviders: ["yt-dlp"],
+          notes: null,
+        },
+      },
+    });
+
+    const ctx = createDaemonUrlFlowContext({
+      env: { HOME: root, OPENAI_API_KEY: "test" },
+      fetchImpl: vi.fn() as unknown as typeof fetch,
+      cache,
+      modelOverride: "google/gemini-3-flash",
+      promptOverride: null,
+      lengthRaw: "short",
+      languageRaw: "auto",
+      maxExtractCharacters: null,
+      extractOnly: true,
+      runStartedAtMs: Date.now(),
+      stdoutSink: { writeChunk: () => {} },
+    });
+
+    ctx.model.apiStatus.googleApiKey = "gemini-key";
+    ctx.model.apiStatus.googleConfigured = true;
+
+    await runUrlFlow({ ctx, url, isYoutubeUrl: true });
+
+    expect(mocks.createLinkPreviewClient).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    const options = mocks.createLinkPreviewClient.mock.calls[0]?.[0];
+    expect(options?.transcription?.geminiApiKey).toBe("gemini-key");
+    expect(options?.transcription?.openaiApiKey).toBe("test");
+  });
+});