Resources & guides

Everything about turning YouTube videos into text — step-by-step guides, workflows, and tooling comparisons.

The complete beginner guide — with timestamps, language switching, and 5 export formats.

Turn a whole channel or playlist into one combined text, CSV, or JSON file — UI and API workflows.

Ready-made n8n and Make.com templates plus API recipes for no-code pipelines.

An honest comparison of free ways to get YouTube transcripts — and their limits.

Three ways to turn any video into clean, copyable text — instant, manual, and bulk.

Export caption files for video editors, web players, and data pipelines — step by step.

From link to key points in under a minute — built-in summaries or your own LLM prompts.

An honest comparison of three AI YouTube summarizers — and where each one actually wins.

One-click self-test cards with AI, Markdown export to Anki or Notion, or DIY from the transcript.

Why the official API won't give you captions, and working Python/JS code that will.

How auto-captions work, how accurate they are, and why some videos have no transcript.

A practical repurposing workflow: transcript → outline → published article.

Feed any video to ChatGPT or Claude — copy the transcript, then summarize, query, or repurpose it.

Turn lectures and course videos into searchable notes, study guides, and flashcards.

Build a citable corpus from many videos for content analysis, coding, and qualitative work.

What to look for in a transcript tool — and how VidWords compares on free tier, formats, and API.

Batch transcripts and channel listings over REST — curl, Node, and Python examples.