What people build with YouTube transcripts

Each recipe has a prompt to paste into an AI assistant and the matching API calls. Pick the result you need.

Which workflow should I choose?

Start with the result: notes for a course, a brief on competitors, a searchable archive, or text for your own app. For one-off work, paste the prompt into an assistant connected to our MCP server. For anything that repeats, use the API calls or an integration. We fetch the captions and keep the source links; your assistant or code does the summarising, so check its answers against the linked moments.

Education

YouTube playlist → study notesA 20-lecture course is ten hours of video and about an hour of reading. Get the reading.Lectures → flashcards & quizzesTesting yourself beats rewatching. Build the questions from the transcript.

Marketing

Competitor channels → weekly briefKnow what three competitors published this week without watching any of it.

Developers

Playlist → RAG corpusIndex what a channel said, chunked on caption timings, with links that open at the right second.

Content

YouTube video → blog postA post built from what was said, not a generic article on the same topic.One video → a week of postsThe best hooks are lines someone already said out loud.

Automation

New uploads → summarized alertsA free check for new videos, a credit only when there is something new.

Research

Channel archive → cited quotes"He said it in some video" is not a citation. This finds the video and the second.

Creators

Episode → show notes & chaptersChapters from real timestamps, notes that catch everything that was said.

Teams

Whole channel → knowledge baseThe answer is in minute 34 of a webinar nobody will rewatch. Make it searchable.

Bring your own idea

Every recipe is built from the same few calls: transcripts, YouTube search, search inside a channel, channel and playlist listings, and a free check for a channel's latest uploads. Anything that starts with “what was said in these videos” is buildable. The API docs cover every call.