YouTube Transcript Bulk Downloader

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🚀 Getting Started with YouTube Transcript Downloader

Install the extension, follow the instructions in the extension popup to register at SerpAPI, insert your key & you're good to go. 250 free transcripts per month.


🧾 DESCRIPTION 

YouTube Transcript Bulk Downloader is the ultimate browser extension for content creators, researchers, students, and writers who need to extract video dialogues reliably and in bulk.


🕰️Old way: Three Party Websites

Problem: 
repetitive "one-by-one" workflow: copying a link, opening a third-party website, hoping it doesn't break, and doing it all over again with constant tab switching. 

This extension eliminates tab switching completely. Paste as many YouTube URLs as you want directly into the extension, and download them all at once. 



✨ KEY FEATURES
• No Tab Switching 
--- Enter multiple YouTube URLs directly in the popup and process them in a single click.

• Perfect for AI workflows: 
Exports clean, perfectly structured Markdown (.md) files that are ready to be dropped straight into ChatGPT, Claude, or any LLM.

• Reliability: 
Transcript tools break every week or fail on certain videos when YouTube updates there interface. SerpApi ensures high-speed, unblocked, reliable extraction.

• Flexible Exports: 
--- Save all transcripts combined in a single .md file 
--- Or download them as individual .md files inside a ZIP archive.

• Timestamps

• Local & Private: Your API key and settings are stored locally and never transmitted to any third party (except SerpApi for retrieving transcripts).

⚙️ SETUP
Because YouTube strictly limits direct scraping, this extension utilizes the SerpApi YouTube Transcript Engine to guarantee reliability.
1. Sign up for a free account at https://serpapi.com — the free tier includes 250 free transcripts per month!
2. Copy your API key from the SerpApi Dashboard (https://serpapi.com/manage-api-key).
3. Paste the key into the extension settings, and you are ready to download transcripts in bulk!

🔒 PERMISSIONS USED & WHY:
• storage: To save your SerpApi key and preferences locally so you do not have to re-enter them every time.
• downloads: To save the exported Markdown (.md) or ZIP archive to your local Downloads folder.
• activeTab: To ensure smooth, secure runtime actions within your current browser environment.