YouTube Transcript & Search

Researching YouTube content or extracting transcripts for analysis can be tedious and time-consuming. With this skill, your AI can instantly fetch transcripts, search for videos, browse channels, extract playlists, and monitor for new uploads—making it easy to turn YouTube into a searchable, actionable resource. This is ideal for researchers, content creators, educators, and anyone needing fast access to YouTube video text or channel data.

What you can do

• Get the full transcript (with timestamps) for any public YouTube video with captions.
• Search YouTube for videos on a specific topic, then fetch transcripts for selected results.
• List the latest uploads from any channel or browse all videos in a channel or playlist.
• Monitor a channel for new uploads and extract transcripts as soon as they’re available.
• Run in-channel searches to find videos on a topic within a specific channel.

How it works

Your AI uses the TranscriptAPI service to fetch transcripts, search videos, and browse channels or playlists. Just provide a YouTube URL, video ID, or @handle, and it handles the rest—fetching transcripts (if captions exist), listing uploads, or searching by topic. For research, it can batch-fetch transcripts and assemble them into a searchable corpus. If you’re monitoring a channel, it checks for new uploads and extracts transcripts automatically.

Good to know

• Requires a free TranscriptAPI key (100 free credits included, no card needed). Set up at transcriptapi.com.
• Some features (like transcript extraction and playlist browsing) use credits; channel/latest and handle resolution are free.
• The AI cannot download video/audio files or access private/age-restricted videos.
• For local extraction, you can use open-source tools like youtube-transcript-api or yt-dlp.