Download all transcripts from any YouTube channel in bulk.
Many formats: TXT, SRT, VTT, and JSON.
Find an existing channel below and click view to download transcripts, or import a new channel quickly. Videos without transcripts can be transcribed at only $0.10 per hour.
Learn more about the featuresAlready-imported channels download instantly — new channels are imported first.
How it works
A whole channel's transcripts in three steps
Pick a channel
Search any YouTube channel above. Hundreds are already imported and download instantly — new ones are fetched video-by-video.
We fetch every transcript
Every video with YouTube captions gets its transcript imported. Videos without captions can optionally be transcribed from audio for $0.10 per hour of video.
Download one ZIP
One file per video in TXT, SRT, VTT, or JSON — plus a manifest. Single videos download individually too.
Formats
Four export formats, timestamps included
Every export keeps one file per video, named by video title, so a channel's catalog stays organized.
.txt
YouTube transcripts as plain text
Clean, readable text — ideal for notes, research, and feeding whole channels to LLMs.
.srt
YouTube transcripts as SRT subtitles
Timestamped SubRip cues that drop straight into video editors and subtitle tools.
.vtt
YouTube transcripts as WebVTT captions
WebVTT for HTML5 players, accessibility, and the modern captioning pipeline.
.json
YouTube transcripts as structured JSON
Per-segment start/end times for data pipelines, search indexes, and analysis.
No captions? No problem
AI audio transcription, not just caption scraping
Most transcript tools only re-serve YouTube's captions. Videos without captions can be transcribed from their audio as a separate step — $0.10 per hour of video — turning a partial export into the whole catalog.
Per video or in bulk
Caption scrapers return nothing when a video has no captions. Here you can transcribe those videos from their audio — one at a time or a whole channel at once — for $0.10 per hour of video.
Built for whole channels
Exports stream as they are built — channels with thousands of videos download as one ZIP without timeouts, rate-limit bans, or babysitting scripts.
Livestreams, old videos, any language
Perfect for livestreams and older uploads that never got captions, and for non-English channels (e.g. Chinese) where YouTube captions are spotty.
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For developers
Need transcripts programmatically?
Skip the yt-dlp maintenance, proxy bans, and caption-scraper gaps. Ask Channel AI exposes a REST API, an official TypeScript SDK (@askchannelai/sdk), and MCP access for AI agents — channel search and transcript-grounded Q&A over any imported channel.
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10 free single-video transcript downloads
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FAQ
Transcript download FAQ
Search for the channel above. If it's already on Ask Channel AI, open its page and click "Transcripts" to download every video's transcript as a single ZIP — one file per video, in TXT, SRT, VTT, or JSON. If it isn't imported yet, add it first and we'll fetch and transcribe the whole catalog for you.
Four formats: plain text (TXT) for reading and LLM ingestion, SubRip (SRT) and WebVTT (VTT) with timestamps for subtitles and video editing, and JSON with per-segment start/end times for data pipelines and analysis.
Videos without captions can be transcribed directly from their audio with AI speech recognition as a separate step — per video or in bulk — for $0.10 per hour of video. It's perfect for livestreams, older uploads, and non-English channels (e.g. Chinese) where YouTube captions are missing or spotty.
There is no channel-size cap — exports stream as they are built, so channels with thousands of videos download fine. The ZIP includes a manifest listing any videos that had no transcript available.
Yes. SRT and VTT files carry timestamped cues, and the JSON format includes start and end times for every segment. The TXT format is clean plain text without timestamps, which works best for reading and feeding to AI models.
You can download 10 individual video transcripts free, no account needed. A free account makes single-video downloads unlimited and adds bulk channel downloads (5 ZIPs per day) plus 1,000 free starter credits for importing channels — importing costs 1 credit per 10 videos, so about $1 per 1,000 videos after that. Transcribing caption-less videos from audio is an optional extra at $0.10 per hour of video. Premium removes the daily bulk-download limit.
For one video, those work. At channel scale they break: YouTube rate-limits and bans scraping IPs, yt-dlp needs constant maintenance, and caption scrapers return nothing for videos without captions. We run managed residential proxies behind one button — plus optional AI audio transcription for the caption-less videos — so a whole channel exports reliably. No setup, no babysitting.
Yes. Transcripts download in the language the videos were spoken in, and the AI question-answering works across languages too.
Yes. Ask Channel AI has a public REST API, an official SDK, and MCP access for AI agents, so you can build transcript search and question-answering into your own apps, bots, and pipelines.
That's the core of Ask Channel AI: every imported channel becomes searchable and askable. Type a question and get an answer built from the channel's real transcripts, with exact quotes and timestamps linking to the moment in each video.
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