YouTube Video to Text
Pricing
from $0.99 / 1,000 transcripts
YouTube video to text in bulk: paste video links, a playlist or a channel and get each video's words as clean plain text for ChatGPT, Claude or notes. Any language, nothing to set up. No captions, no charge. $1.99 per 1,000 on the Free plan, from $0.99 on paid plans.
Paste YouTube links, one per line, or a whole list at once. A video link (regular, youtu.be, Shorts, live, embed or mobile) or an 11-character video ID gives you that video. A playlist link gives you the videos of the playlist, and a channel link (https://www.youtube.com/@name, or just @name) the channel's newest videos, up to the number set below. Search terms are not taken here. Duplicates are fetched once.
[ "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arj7oStGLkU", "https://youtu.be/iG9CE55wbtY"]How many videos to take from each channel or playlist. Start with a small number to see what you get, then raise it. You only pay for transcripts that are delivered.
Leave it on Original language to get each video in the language it is spoken in: you do not need to know the language in advance. Or pick one or more languages in order of preference, and the first one the video has is used. You can also type any language code (pt-BR, es-419) or a language name (Spanish, español, German). Captions written by people are preferred over auto-generated ones. Every row tells you which language was returned and which other languages the video has.
[ "auto"][ "es", "en"]Saves all transcripts of the run into one file, ALL_TRANSCRIPTS.md, with a heading, the channel, the date and the link for every video. Upload it to ChatGPT, Claude, NotebookLM or your knowledge base in one go. You find it in the run's Storage > Key-value store tab. Large runs are split into files of about 8 MB. The price stays the same.
When on, a video without captions in the languages you picked still returns its transcript in its original language, and the language and message fields tell you which one. Turn it off to skip those videos instead. Skipped videos are not charged.