BulkTranscripts· YouTube transcript downloader
Download every transcript from a YouTube channel, playlist or video in one job
Developer Tools·AI & Machine Learning·Productivity
What is BulkTranscripts?
BulkTranscripts is a YouTube transcript downloader.
BulkTranscripts downloads every available transcript from a YouTube channel, playlist or video in one job, instead of one video at a time. Paste a link and it finds the videos, fetches the captions and hands back clean text with titles, links and timestamps kept.
Key features
- Whole channels and playlists, up to 1,000 videos per job
- - Export as TXT, Markdown, SRT, VTT, CSV, JSON, or one combined AI-ready file for NotebookLM, ChatGPT and Claude
- - A searchable library: re-exporting a saved transcript is free
- - The same engine as a REST API, a hosted MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and VS Code, and an agent skill for Claude Code and Codex
- - A free latest-uploads endpoint, so agents only spend credits on new videos
Who it is for
Researchers, students, creators and developers who need the text of many videos at once: study notes, competitor research, show notes, or a RAG dataset.
Pricing
The first 30 transcripts are free, no card. After that, one-time credit packs from $4.99 that never expire. No subscription.
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1Hey, I'm the founder. I built BulkTranscripts because every transcript tool did one video at a time, which is useless when you want a whole channel or a course playlist. Paste a link, get every transcript as one file for NotebookLM or ChatGPT, or hook it into Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor through the MCP server. The first 30 transcripts are free, no card. Happy to answer anything here.