Ask any YouTube channel.
Get instant answers.
Ask Channel AI transcribes and indexes every video in a channel, then answers your questions with exact quotes and timestamps. It's that simple.
Three steps
Pick or add a channel
Choose from hundreds already indexed, or enter a YouTube channel name or the @handle to add a new one.
Ask any question or topic you're interested in
Phrase it however you like — Ask Channel AI finds the relevant moments across every video in a channel.
Get a cited answer
Every answer carries quote-level citations — click any to verify it in the original video.
Cited answers
Every claim links back to the source
Each answer is built from the channel's transcripts, and every quote shows the video and timestamp it came from. Click a citation to jump to that moment in the video.
Exact quotes in the creator's own words
Jump to the exact second in the video
Drawn from transcripts, never invented
Ask this channel
See what a channel covers before you watch, or understand what you've already watched
Every channel opens with topics pulled from its own transcripts. Expand one for specific questions, and click any to start a chat.
Topics built from the transcripts
Each opens into ready-made questions
One click starts a conversation
Search quotes
Find the exact moment anything was said
Search any word or phrase across every transcript in a channel. Matches appear as you type, each with its video and a timestamp that links straight to that second.
Full-text search across every video
Results appear as you type
Each match links to the exact timestamp
Search by topic
Find the right video, even if you forget the words
When a channel is imported, every video gets a video summary — an AI recap plus topic tags. Search by topic and the closest videos come back ranked, each with its summary and matching tags.
A video summary — recap and tags — for every video
Search by meaning, not exact wording
Results ranked, with the tags that match
Import anything
Bring in a whole channel in minutes (or less)
Enter a YouTube channel name or the @handle, and Ask Channel AI transcribes the entire channel — hundreds or thousands of videos — into something you can ask and search. Hundreds of channels and 100,000+ videos are already imported.
Handles channels with thousands of videos
Transcribes every video automatically, ready to search
Imported channels are shared across the community
Bulk download
Download every transcript in a channel
Grab a whole channel's transcripts in one click — bundled into a single zip, in the format you need: plain text to read, SRT subtitles, or timestamped JSON for your own tools.
Three formats: text, SRT (subtitles), or JSON
Every video in a channel, bundled into one download
Download individual video transcripts, or the whole channel's transcripts zipped into one file
Multi-channel
Ask across several channels at once
Ask one question across several channels and get a single answer that pulls from all of them, with citations showing which creator said what. See where they agree and where they differ.
One synthesized answer from many channels
Each citation labeled by channel
Compare what different creators say
Email summaries
Get a summary of new videos in your email inbox when a subscribed channel has uploaded
Add the channels you care about and Ask Channel AI keeps watching them. When new videos go up, you get an email summarizing what they're about — so you can skip what doesn't matter, open what does, or jump straight into a chat.
An email when your channels post new videos
Each new upload summarized, not just listed
Chat with the channel in one click from the email
API & MCP
Connect to your own (AI) tooling
A single REST call returns a cited answer, ready to drop into a bot, script, or workflow. Or connect over MCP to ask channels directly from Claude and other AI assistants.
One POST request, one cited answer
Native MCP access for AI agents
Output ready for Telegram, Slack, Discord, and more
Bots & chat apps
Ask a channel right from Telegram, Discord, or Slack
Wire Ask Channel AI into a bot in your favorite chat app, then ask any imported channel a question without leaving the conversation. The bot replies with a full answer and the sources it came from — videos and timestamps — so anyone in the chat can check the receipts.
Ask a channel with a simple bot command
Answers come back with cited videos and timestamps
Works in Telegram, Discord, Slack, and other chat apps
FAQ
Common questions
That works inside the single video you're watching. Ask Channel AI works across a channel's entire back catalog at once, cites the exact video and timestamp behind every answer, and can even answer across several channels — or through an API.
For one video, you can. But a channel can have thousands of videos — far more than what a typical conversation with an AI can fit. Ask Channel AI indexes the entire channel once and pulls only the passages relevant to each question (that's RAG — retrieval-augmented generation), so answers stay grounded in the videos and arrive with citations, instead of a model summarizing a single transcript or guessing from memory.
They do - but Gemini is all-purpose and also won't surface exact quotes or timestamps reliably, only chapters. Ask Channel AI also has a very rich set of features built on top to provide a better user experience, and you can even connect our offerings to your own custom (AI) applications, tooling, or workflows.
Most "YouTube transcript" tools just hand you the transcript — a file to read. They aren't a RAG (retrieval augmented generation) platform. RAG means the system searches a large body of content for the parts relevant to your question, then uses those to write a cited answer. Ask Channel AI runs that whole pipeline — transcribe, index, retrieve, answer with citations — across entire channels and through an API. We don't know of another product that does this for any YouTube channel.
Every answer is built from the channel's real transcripts, and each claim shows the exact quote, video, and timestamp it came from — click to check it in the source. The system answers from the transcripts, not from the model's general memory, so there's always something to verify against.
Yes. Regardless of the language spoken in the video, answers come back in the language you ask the question in — while the quotes stay in the creator's original words.
Videos without YouTube captions can still be transcribed from their audio, so coverage often goes beyond what YouTube shows. Videos with no usable audio transcript are simply skipped — they're never counted as failures.
Very competitively. Importing a channel costs 1 credit for every 10 videos, and a credit is just $0.01 — so a 1,000-video channel costs about $1. If a video has no existing transcript, transcribing its audio adds $0.10 per hour of video. And signing up gives you 1,000 free starter credits, so your first imports are on us.
Reach out to us on Discord — we read every message and are glad to help.