Automate YouTube Transcript in plain words

Describe what should happen in YouTube Transcript, and when, in plain words. Whenever builds the workflow, connects your account, and runs it the same way every time, on a schedule, on a webhook, or when another app sends an event.

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Get the transcript and summary of a video

01Trigger
TriggerA video link I post in the Slack channel id you choose in setup.
02Yo
YouTube TranscriptFetch that video's transcript with YouTube Transcript.
03Go
Google DocsSave the cleaned transcript as a new Google Docs document, making one document per link and skipping a link already summarized.
04Sl
SlackReply in that Slack thread with the key points and a link to the document.
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OutputFinish

About YouTube Transcript

Retrieve and store captions for one video or a bounded batch, read job and batch status, access stored transcripts and languages, and resolve playlist or channel video metadata through the YouTube Transcript REST API.

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How Whenever connects

Through its API, with your credentials managed by Whenever.

Build it from your AI client

Connect Claude, Cursor or Codex to the Whenever MCP server and your coding agent writes, tests and deploys the YouTube Transcript workflow for you. It runs on Whenever afterwards, on its schedule or webhook, with the chat closed.

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YouTube Transcript workflows to start from

Real briefs that use this app. Pick one and Whenever writes it against your accounts.

Get the transcript and summary of a videoFetches the transcript for a video link you share and returns a summary in the same channel.

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Describe your first workflow in plain words. AI building is free within weekly usage limits; you pay when it runs.