Search FAQs

Run a subtitle or metadata search and click Export. Choose CSV, Compact CSV, JSONL or ZIP, then select the columns you want, such as video ID, title, channel ID, channel name, upload date or view count. Stored descriptions are included only with patron benefits, and full subtitles can be selected where available.

To list a channel's known videos without matching title words, select the channel in metadata search, leave the title query empty and export the results. To export only videos whose captions contain particular words, use subtitle search with the channel selected.

Exports contain IDs rather than ready-made links:

• For a video URL, append its video ID to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=.
• For a channel URL, append its channel ID to https://www.youtube.com/channel/.

To produce a channel list, select the channel ID and name columns and deselect other columns if you do not need them. An export has one row per matching video, so the same channel can appear repeatedly; remove duplicate channel IDs in a spreadsheet if you need unique links.

Row limits apply to each export:

• Without patron benefits: up to 60 rows from subtitle search or 100 rows from metadata search.
• With patron benefits: up to 10,000 rows, or 2,500 when full subtitles are included.

Subtitle search also offers a Subtitle Timestamps Export option. Use Export embed urls to create links to matching moments on YouTube.

Select a channel, run a search and use Export to download the matching results within your export limit.

• Channel metadata and available full subtitles: open Metadata search, select the channel and run the search. A title query is not required. Choose the columns you need in the export dialog and include full subtitles if available.
• Videos containing a spoken word or phrase: select the channel in subtitle search, enter your keywords and run the search. You can use operators such as "exact phrase" and | for alternatives, then export the matching videos and, if needed, their captions or transcripts.

Available formats include CSV, Compact CSV, JSONL and ZIP. Without patron benefits, one export contains up to 60 subtitle-search rows or 100 metadata-search rows, without descriptions. With patron benefits, the limit is up to 10,000 rows, or 2,500 when full subtitles are included.

Exports cannot retrieve videos outside Filmot's index or captions it has not collected. Exported content remains subject to applicable rights and usage terms.

The search total is an estimate and may not equal the exact number of rows available for export. Exports also have row limits.

Without patron benefits, an export can contain up to 60 rows from subtitle search or 100 from metadata search. With patron benefits, the maximum is 10,000 rows, reduced to 2,500 when full subtitles are included.

Check Max Records in the export dialog to see the selected limit.