Your videos already contain hours of scripted, edited ideas. Download the transcripts for your whole channel in one job and reuse them as blog posts, newsletters, social threads, show notes, and text versions of your videos for viewers who prefer to read.
Download every transcript on your channel in one background job, then only the new uploads each month.
Paste clean text into ChatGPT or Claude to draft posts, threads, and newsletters in your own words.
Publish a readable transcript next to each video for search engines and for viewers who can't or don't want to listen.
Export SRT or VTT caption files to reuse on other platforms and players.
You have 200 tutorials on your channel and a blog that hasn't been updated in a year.
You publish weekly and want a newsletter that recaps each video.
Some viewers are deaf or hard of hearing, watch without sound, or would rather skim. A transcript on your site serves all of them, and gives search engines text to index.
A text transcript helps readers and search engines, but accessibility guidelines such as WCAG still expect synchronized captions on the video itself. Use SRT or VTT downloads when you need timed captions for another player.
We download the captions YouTube already has. If you upload corrected captions to your videos, every transcript you download afterwards uses them.
Yes. Single-video transcripts are free on the homepage. Channel and playlist downloads use one credit per video, and new accounts get free credits to start.
Yes. Load your channel and click "Exclude Downloaded" to remove videos you already downloaded from the selection.
Text (.txt) without timestamps is the easiest to read and paste into an AI assistant. Use SRT or VTT only when you need timed captions.
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