Transcribr

About Transcribr

Transcribr extracts YouTube transcripts in bulk — whole channels and playlists, not one video at a time — and is built specifically for feeding that text into AI workflows rather than for reading it. The consumer path is a free Chrome extension that adds a Transcribe button directly into YouTube: open a channel or playlist, click once, and every transcript exports as TXT, JSON, CSV, SRT or VTT. The developer path matters more. There is a REST API returning structured JSON with timestamps, and an MCP server, which means an agent can pull a channel's entire transcript corpus as a tool call instead of needing a scraping script wired up in advance. That combination — bulk extraction plus MCP — is what makes it useful for research corpora, competitive content analysis, RAG ingestion and dataset construction, all of which otherwise start with somebody writing a yt-dlp wrapper. Pricing is the other reason to note it: there is no subscription. Credits are bought once and never expire, starting free with 25 transcripts and running from $4.99 for 100 credits down to $0.016 per transcript at the $79.99 tier, and every paid tier includes API access, MCP server usage and bulk extraction rather than gating them behind a higher plan. For an occasional research task that is a materially better fit than a monthly seat, and for a one-off large corpus pull it is cheap enough to be a rounding error.

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