Guide
How to get transcripts of TED videos
Talks are short and quotable, which makes the full archive genuinely useful as a text corpus.
Extract transcripts freeGet every transcript in three steps
- Paste the channel link. BulkTranscripts detects whether it is a video, playlist, or channel automatically.
- Press Get transcripts. Videos are processed in parallel with live progress, and anything already in your library is served instantly from cache.
- Export. Download a ZIP with one file per video, or a single combined document — TXT, Markdown, SRT, VTT, CSV, JSON, or AI-ready.
What people do with TED transcripts
The common use is to gather examples of strong openings, or build a reference of talks by theme. Because the combined export carries each video's title, channel, date, and link in a header, an AI model can cite which video an answer came from instead of blending everything together.
Why bulk matters
Most transcript tools handle one video at a time, which is fine for a single clip and useless for an archive. Pulling TED one URL at a time is the actual problem — BulkTranscripts exists to do the whole channel in one job.
Questions
Is there a limit on how many TED videos I can transcribe?
You can run a whole channel or playlist in one job. Large archives are processed in batches with live progress, and everything you have already pulled is cached so re-runs are instant.
Do I need to sign in?
No. Paste a link and go.
What if a video has no captions?
It is skipped and reported in the results, and the rest of the job continues. Videos with creator-written captions are preferred over auto-generated ones when both exist.
Can I get one file instead of hundreds?
Yes. Choose the combined export to get the entire channel or playlist as a single document, which is what you want for NotebookLM, ChatGPT, or Claude.