# Recipe: Turn a YouTube Channel into a Blog

> **Goal:** Every video on a channel (yours or a client's) becomes a search-indexable article — video content working twice.
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> *Applies to Antradus AI Pro v2.0.0 · Last updated 2026-07-24*

## Why bother

Video content is invisible to text search. Ten videos → ten articles = the same knowledge, now rankable, quotable, and linkable — each embedding its video for watch-time too.

## Before you start (once)

Install the **Antradus Auto Pilot YT extension** and enable it on your WordPress site — see [Turn a YouTube Video into an Article](../writing/youtube-to-article.md#one-time-setup). It reads each video's transcript in your browser, which is what makes this reliable at volume.

## Steps (per video — ~3 minutes each)

1. **New post** → Antradus AI panel → paste the video link in the **YouTube URL field**.
2. Click **Get transcript** — the extension reads the video and shows the text. Sanity-check it's the right video.
3. Style: **How-To** for tutorials, **Blog** for vlogs/commentary, **News** for announcements.
4. **Start Writing** — the article is written from the video's transcript.
5. **Embed the video**: paste the YouTube URL on its own line in the editor — WordPress embeds the player automatically. Best spot: after the intro paragraph.
6. Featured image: generate one, or use the video's thumbnail if you have rights to it.
7. Publish. Repeat with the next video.

## Scale tip

Doing a 50-video backlog? Work chronologically oldest→newest and interlink as you go ("we covered X in [this article]"). The per-video flow is manual by design — one transcript per video — but 3 minutes/video is still ~20 videos in an hour.

## Gotchas

- Videos **with subtitles/CC** (auto-generated counts) are required — the transcript comes from the caption track. No captions = the extension has nothing to read.
- Private and age-restricted videos can't be read.
- Want the articles to come out a specific way (summary, how-to, listicle)? Change the **"What the AI does with the transcript"** box in settings → ▶️ YouTube to Article once, and every video follows it.
