Pulp — Private YouTube Transcripts (1-click)

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PULP — ONE-CLICK YOUTUBE TRANSCRIPTS (PRIVATE, IN-BROWSER)

Squeeze the transcript out of any YouTube video. Without leaving YouTube.

Tired of pasting URLs into ad-laden transcript sites? Pulp grabs the transcript right where you watch — no redirects, no popups, no data leaving your machine.

Pulp it.

🍊 THE JUICE

📄 INSTANT TRANSCRIPTS — ONE CLICK. STAYS LOCAL.
One click peels the words out of any YouTube video and copies them to your clipboard. Ready for Claude, ChatGPT, your notes app, or anywhere else. No third-party site. No tracking. Stays in your browser.

🔒 PRIVATE BY DEFAULT. LOCAL BY DESIGN.
Most "free" transcript tools dump you on an ad-filled site that logs everything you paste. Pulp doesn't.
• No third-party transcript site. Pulp pulls captions directly inside your browser.
• No servers. We don't run any. Nothing to hack, nothing to leak.
• No analytics. We don't track what you watch, copy, or summarise.
• API keys (optional) stay in your browser's local storage. They never touch us.

⏱️ WATCH-TIME CALCULATOR
See the total runtime across every open YouTube tab. Know exactly when you'll finish at 1×, 1.5×, or 2× speed. Stop stacking 4-hour queues you never get through.

🧠 AI SUMMARIES (BRING YOUR OWN KEY)
Add your Anthropic or OpenAI API key once in Settings. Get instant summaries of any video — your key, your bill, your data, sent direct from your browser to the AI provider. We don't sit in the middle.

📦 BATCH EXPORT
Multi-video transcript export to Markdown, CSV, or plain text. Optionally include AI summaries in the export. Perfect for research, content review, or feeding a corpus to your favourite LLM.

🔗 CROSS-VIDEO SYNTHESIS
Select 5 videos. Run one prompt. Get one unified report comparing themes, viewpoints, and insights across them. Real research, not just summaries.

📚 TRANSCRIPT & SUMMARY HISTORY
Local-only history of every transcript you've copied and every summary you've generated. Search it, re-export it, or wipe it whenever you want.

📝 CUSTOM PROMPT TEMPLATES
Save reusable AI prompts — flashcards, argument maps, code extraction, study notes — and apply them in one click during summary or batch export.

🪶 SMART MARKDOWN EXPORT
Frontmatter, tags, clickable timestamp links. Drops cleanly into Obsidian, Tana, and Logseq.

⚖️ HOW PULP IS DIFFERENT

Pulp is NOT another web-based transcript scraper that:
• Forces you to copy/paste URLs into a sketchy third-party page.
• Wraps the transcript in 14 ads, 3 popups, and a newsletter signup.
• Logs your queries to "improve service" (i.e. resell them).

Pulp is a browser extension that runs entirely on your machine, talks only to YouTube (and your AI provider, if you opt in with your own key), and never reports back to anyone.

🆓 EVERYTHING IS FREE.
No paywall. No "Pro" tier. No upsells. If Pulp saves you time today, the kindest thing you can do back is leave a review so other researchers and learners can find it.

Stop watching passively. Start extracting actively. Get Pulp.