How to get YouTube comments and transcripts with AI

By the ProLevelMax team · Updated 2026-10-16

A YouTube review has two useful parts: what the creator says, and what viewers answer in the comments. Your AI can fetch both, the transcript and the comments, and compare them across many videos.

Good forProduct researchers, marketers, creator and agency teams, analysts

Pricefrom $0.003 per request

Works withClaude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex and other AI tools that support MCP or Skills

What data you get

Your AI chooses among these sources. All YouTube sources are on the YouTube data page.

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Data	What it returns	Source ID
Video comments	Comments on one video, one page per call	procli_youtube_z
Comment replies	Replies under one comment	procli_youtube_y
Transcript	Captions or transcript of one video	procli_youtube_w
Video info	Info and stats for one video	procli_youtube_aa
Channel info	Subscribers, video count and basic info for a channel	procli_youtube_f
Channel videos	Videos from one channel	procli_youtube_j
Search	Videos for a keyword	procli_youtube_t
Batch comments	Comments from several videos in one job	procli_youtube_a

Transcripts come from the video's captions. Counts are the public numbers at the moment of the request.

Set it up once

Create an account at prolevelmax.com. New accounts get $1 of free credit, and you don't need a card to sign up.
Connect your AI (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex and others). Send it the line set up https://prolevelmax.com/SKILL.md together with your API key, or add https://prolevelmax.com/mcp as an MCP server. Step-by-step setup is in How to give your AI real-time social media data.
Ask in plain words. The AI picks a data source, tells you the price, and runs it only after you agree. Results come back as structured data the AI can sort, count and summarise.

Prompts to copy

Paste one of these into your AI and swap in your own links or keywords.

Search YouTube for "robot vacuum review 2026" and take the 10 most-viewed videos.
Get each video's transcript and summarise the pros and cons the reviewers mention, as a table.

Get up to 300 comments on this video: [video link]
What do viewers agree and disagree with, and what questions do they ask that the video didn't answer?

Get the channel info and the last 30 videos from [channel link].
List views, likes and comments per video and tell me which topics perform best.

For transcripts, paste the video link. For channels, the channel link or @handle works best.

Price

YouTube comments and video info are billed per call, from $0.003 per request. Transcripts cost more per video, and the batch jobs are billed per result. Live rates for each source are on the YouTube data page. Your AI shows the price before every run, and you are never charged more than the quote.

Limits

Public data only. Private accounts, messages and anything that needs someone's login are not collected.
Videos without captions have no transcript to return.
Videos with comments turned off return no comments. Private and members-only videos can't be read.

FAQ

Can AI get the transcript of a YouTube video?

Yes, if the video has captions. Connected to ProLevelMax, the AI fetches the captions or transcript of a video from its link and can then summarise or translate it.

Do I need a YouTube Data API key?

No. You only need a ProLevelMax account.

How much do YouTube comments and transcripts cost?

Comments start from $0.003 per request; transcripts cost more per video. The AI quotes the price before every run.

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