Download the transcripts of an entire YouTube channel

Q: How to search youtube channel transcripts?

Download the channel and open all-transcripts.txt : every transcript is in one file, with each video's title and link, so any editor's search finds the words and the video. ChannelText itself has no search.

Paste a channel link. You see how many videos it has and the most it can cost before you pay, then get every transcript in one ZIP.

In short: ChannelText downloads the transcripts of YouTube videos, Shorts, playlists and whole channels as TXT, SRT, WebVTT or JSON files, in one ZIP with a CSV report. It costs $0.008 per delivered transcript from a prepaid balance topped up with $10 (1,250 transcripts): a one-time payment in USD, no subscription, no free sample, and videos without a transcript are not charged. Up to 50 links and 500 videos per run; it uses the captions YouTube publishes, so a video without captions has no transcript. Also available as a REST API and an MCP server.

Result

#	Video	Result	Files

API keys

Get transcripts from your own code with the ChannelText API, paid from the same balance. A new key is shown once; keep it secret and revoke it if it leaks.

Name	Key	Created	Last used

Every upload on the channel

A channel link covers its Videos, Shorts and Live tabs, newest first, up to 500 videos per run. Set a maximum number of videos or publish dates under “Limit and dates”.

Update this channel later

When a run ends, “Update this channel” fetches the videos you have not received yet. Videos delivered before are skipped and free, so you pay only for the new ones.

See the cost before paying

ChannelText counts the channel's videos first: a channel with 300 videos shows “300 videos, at most $2.40”. You top up only if your balance is short.

Pricing

$0.008 per delivered transcript ($8 per 1,000). No subscription.

Prepaid balance: add $10 (1,250 transcripts) when your balance is short. You only pay at that point, after you have seen how many videos your link has and the most it can cost.
Videos without captions, private or removed videos and videos YouTube blocked are free. You pay only for transcripts you get. “Update this channel” skips the videos of that channel you already received.
No free sample. Transcripts come from the captions YouTube publishes (the creator's or YouTube's automatic ones); there is no speech-to-text, so a video with no captions has no transcript.

Questions

Can I automatically transcribe YouTube videos?

ChannelText downloads the captions YouTube already has for each video (the creator's or YouTube's automatic ones), for a whole channel at once. It does not run its own speech recognition, so videos without captions have no transcript; they are free.

How much does transcription cost?

On ChannelText, $0.008 per delivered transcript ($8 per 1,000), from a prepaid $10 balance. Videos without a transcript cost nothing.

How to get youtube channel transcript?

Paste the channel link (for example https://www.youtube.com/@channelname) above, check the count and cost, and select “Get transcripts”.

How to search youtube channel transcripts?

Download the channel and open all-transcripts.txt: every transcript is in one file, with each video's title and link, so any editor's search finds the words and the video. ChannelText itself has no search.