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Articles
Guides, tutorials, and reference on YouTube transcripts — formats, workflows, troubleshooting, and AI transcription.
Troubleshooting
YouTube Transcript Not Available?Missing or not showing? Every reason — and how to get the text anyway.
Age-Restricted VideosAge-restricted videos need authentication, so standard tools fail. Here's the workaround.
Members-Only VideosMembers-only videos are access-restricted by design — what you can and can't do.
Non-English TranscriptsArabic, Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian, Turkish — captions vs. AI transcription.
Without Browser ExtensionChrome extensions break when YouTube changes its UI. INDXR works in any browser.
Formats
Plain Text (TXT)Most tools give you raw caption fragments. INDXR groups them into readable paragraphs.
Markdown TranscriptsClean Markdown with YAML frontmatter and clickable timestamp deep links.
CSV ExportOne row per segment with timestamps, text, and word count. UTF-8 BOM for Excel.
SRT / VTT SubtitlesSubtitles with professional timing — 3–7 second segments, 42 characters per line.
JSON ExportStructured JSON with video metadata, start/end timestamps, and channel info.
RAG-Optimized JSONChunked JSON with 15% overlap and per-chunk deep links for Pinecone, Chroma, Weaviate.
Workflows
Bulk Transcript ExtractionDownload transcripts from entire playlists in one extraction, with real-time progress.
Playlist TranscriptsExtract a whole playlist in one job — first 3 YouTube caption videos free.
Audio File TranscriptionUpload any audio or video file and get a full transcript. 1 credit per minute.
Obsidian WorkflowMarkdown export with Dataview-compatible properties — no plugin required.
AI & RAG
Chunking Transcripts for RAGThe chunk size you pick matters more than your embedding model.
Building a YouTube Knowledge BaseExtract a whole channel, embed it, and build semantic search over years of video.
Transcripts in Vector DatabasesStep-by-step: extract transcripts, generate embeddings, store, and query in natural language.
