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Extract transcripts from a YouTube playlist

Courses, podcast archives, conference talks — playlists are how long-form knowledge lives on YouTube. Here's how to turn one into text.

Step by step

1. Copy the playlist link — anything containing list=… works, including a video URL that's part of a playlist.
2. Open Bulk extract → Playlist tab → paste → Find videos (free).
3. Review the resolved list — title, channel, and count, with a note showing exactly how many credits extraction will use.
4. Extract all, then download a combined file:
   • .txt — each video separated by a heading with its title and link; ideal for reading or feeding to an LLM.
   • .json — structured per-video segments for programmatic use.
   • .csv — one row per caption line with video id, start time and duration; ideal for spreadsheets.

What people build with this

• Course notes — a 40-lecture course becomes a searchable document in ~3 minutes.
• Podcast quote mining — search every episode for a phrase, jump to the exact timestamp.
• LLM knowledge bases — combined JSON drops straight into RAG pipelines.

Limits

Playlists resolve up to 500 videos per request. Private and members-only videos can't be read. Each successfully extracted transcript costs one credit; failures are free.

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