Using the website

Sign in with Google to use your shared credit balance, collect results in the background, and download them from History. No API key or script is needed. Free accounts receive 30 credits every 30 days.

Find a video

Open Search to search YouTube or one channel. Channel search takes a handle or channel URL plus search terms. Search and Load more cost zero credits. Opening a video result in the Workbench starts a transcript fetch; a successful fetch costs 1 credit.

One video: transcript and optional comments

1. Paste a video URL into the Workbench and fetch its transcript.
2. Read the transcript and available video metadata, then choose a download format.
3. If you want a comment sample, choose Top or Newest in the comments section and fetch it separately.

The sample is one page, usually about 20 top-level comments, for 1 credit when nonempty. It does not load more pages or replies. Changing the order requires another fetch and replaces the displayed sample; download it first if you want to keep both. Empty pages and failed fetches are free. Use the standalone collector below for a larger set.

Collect transcripts

Use the Workbench for a channel, playlist, or your own selection of videos. For a whole channel, the download button collects long-form videos in the background, up to the smaller of its count, 5,000 videos, and what your balance can reserve. Shorts are excluded. For a subset, load the videos you need and select them before submitting.

A transcript job reserves 1 credit per video. Enable comments to reserve 2 instead: one transcript plus one Top comments page per successful transcript, with no reply walk. Failed transcripts and unused comment reservations are refunded when the job settles. The transcript remains successful if only its comments fail.

Return to History to follow progress, cancel, or download saved results. These website jobs are available on Free within your balance. Paid-plan bulk requirements and caps in the public API and MCP are separate.

Collect comments without transcripts

1. Open Comments and paste a video, playlist, or channel URL.
2. Choose Top comments or Newest first.
3. Enter an amount per video, or select All available.
4. Optionally include replies to the collected top-level comments.
5. Set a credit limit for the whole job and start collection.

The amount limits top-level comments per video. Replies are additional to that amount and use the same job budget. One nonempty page costs 1 credit, including reply pages. Page sizes vary, so 100 comments is not a guaranteed five-credit collection.

Your credit limit is reserved up front and must fit your available balance. The job processes videos in sequence and stops when its budget is used. Earlier videos and their replies can use the budget before later videos are reached. Unused reservations are refunded at completion or cancellation. There is one active comments collection per account, on any plan, and a maximum source size of 5,000 videos. A larger source is rejected; choose a smaller playlist. Channel sources exclude Shorts.

Background work and downloads

Once a job is accepted, you can close the browser. History shows its status, counts, and cancellation/download controls. Cancellation keeps saved results and returns the unused reservation; a request already in flight may finish but does not extend the canceled collection.

• Transcript downloads: TXT, SRT, JSON, CSV, and Markdown. Optional comment samples are separate JSON files in the ZIP.
• Standalone comments: one ZIP containing a manifest and both JSON and CSV for each video with saved comments. Download the job as a whole; there is no comment-by-comment selection screen.
• The manifest records the source, settings, credit limit and use, stopping message, and per-video coverage. If discovery found no videos, there is no ZIP to download.

Downloads and reads of saved results cost no additional credits. History lists jobs created in the last 100 days; exports expire 100 days after a job becomes terminal. Save files locally for longer retention. Refunds belong to the billing cycle that funded the reservation; unused credits from an earlier cycle are not added to a new cycle.

Website, API, and MCP

Use the comments API if you want to control pagination yourself, or MCP to work from chat. The balance is shared; request limits and submission contracts are not interchangeable.