SubExtract for Researchers

Citing YouTube content in a paper

1. 1Extract the video's transcript with timestamps
2. 2Quote the exact text from the transcript with the timestamp as your citation locator
3. 3Save the transcript as a permanent record in case the video is later deleted or edited
4. 4Reference the YouTube URL plus the timestamped quote in your paper

Qualitative analysis of audience comments

1. 1Identify a corpus of relevant videos in your research area
2. 2Extract comments to CSV for each video using the Comments tool
3. 3Combine the CSVs into a single dataset
4. 4Run sentiment analysis, topic modeling, or thematic coding on the text

Mapping a creator's body of work

1. 1Use Channel Videos to pull the full upload history
2. 2Sort by date to track topic evolution over time
3. 3Identify thematic clusters by manually tagging or running NLP on the title list
4. 4Use the structured catalog as a foundation for content analysis or media studies research

Studying online discourse

For research on health misinformation: extract comments from 50 high-view videos on a controversial health topic, code the comments into themes (skepticism, anecdote, citation, support), and quantify the prevalence of each across the corpus. Replicable methodology, structured data.

Citation with reproducibility

When citing a YouTube video, paste the full transcript into your supplementary materials. If the video is later edited or deleted, your citation remains verifiable — exactly what peer review requires.