YouTube transcriptsTranscribe a YouTube playlist, then ask it questions
Last updated October 20, 2026
A playlist of lectures, interviews or tutorials is hours of knowledge you can't search. Relic turns it into text you can search and question: every video transcribed, summarized and kept in one library.
Why transcribe a playlist
Video is the slowest format to get information back out of. You remember a speaker said something useful, but not in which video, or at which minute. Once a playlist is text, you can find that moment in seconds, compare what different videos say, and quote it accurately.
How it works in Relic
- Add the video or playlist to Relic.
- Relic fetches each video's transcript and saves it with the title, channel and link.
- Every video gets a summary, key takeaways, a category and tags.
- Ask questions across all of them. Answers cite the videos they came from.
Things you can ask
- "Which video explains the difference between RAG and fine-tuning?"
- "Summarize what this course says about pricing, video by video."
- "Where do these two speakers disagree?"
- "Give me the steps from the setup tutorial as a checklist."
Compared with scripts and transcript tools
| Option | What you get | What you still have to do |
|---|---|---|
| Scripts and APIs | Raw transcript files | Run code, manage keys, then read hundreds of pages yourself |
| Transcript tools | A transcript per video, to download | Keep the files somewhere and search them by hand |
| Relic | Transcripts, summaries and tags in one library | Ask a question |
Not just YouTube
The same library holds articles, PDFs, Notion pages and Google Drive files, so a question can draw on the lecture and the paper it was based on. See chat with your bookmarks for how answering works.
Common questions
- How do I get the transcript of a whole YouTube playlist?
- Add the playlist to Relic AI. It fetches the transcript of each video, summarizes it, and keeps them all searchable in one library, with no scripts or API keys.
- Can I ask questions about a YouTube video?
- Yes. Once a video is in Relic, ask anything about it, or about many videos at once, and the answer cites the videos it used.
- Is it free?
- Relic AI is free during its open beta.