Udemy Transcript Extractor

Download complete transcripts from any Udemy course you're enrolled in organized, searchable, and ready for note-taking, study or AI summarization. ━━━ HOW IT WORKS ━━━ 1. Open a Udemy course you're enrolled in 2. Click the extension icon 3. Click "Extract transcripts" 4. Download a ZIP with one .txt file per lecture, plus a combined full-course transcript A 200-lecture course takes about 2 minutes. ━━━ WHAT YOU GET ━━━ - One .txt file per lecture, named and numbered to match the course curriculum - Chapter folders that mirror the course structure - A single _full-transcript.txt for full-text search across the entire course - Clean plain text — timestamps and duplicate caption cues removed - English captions by default, with automatic fallback to available locales ━━━ PRIVACY ━━━ Everything runs locally in your browser. There are no external servers, no analytics, no tracking, and no third-party requests. The extension only talks to udemy.com using your existing logged-in session — exactly like your browser already does when you watch a lecture. Transcript data is wiped from local storage the moment your download completes. ━━━ BUILT FOR SAFETY ━━━ - Manifest V3, strict Content Security Policy - No eval, no remote code, no innerHTML - Every network request validated against a *.udemy.com allowlist - Rate-limited (500ms between requests) to be respectful of Udemy's servers - Open source — audit the code at github.com/iamafram/udemy-transcript-extractor ━━━ PERMISSIONS EXPLAINED ━━━ - storage — Remember extraction progress so you can close and reopen the popup - downloads — Save the ZIP file to your Downloads folder - tabs — Detect when you're on a Udemy course page - scripting — Read the course ID from the page - udemy.com access — Fetch the curriculum and caption files ━━━ REQUIREMENTS ━━━ - Active enrollment in the course (the extension cannot bypass paywalls or access content you haven't purchased) - Chrome 121 or newer ━━━ IMPORTANT NOTICE ━━━ This extension uses Udemy's internal API endpoints, which are not publicly documented. Use of this extension may conflict with Udemy's Terms of Service. Use it only with courses you have legitimately enrolled in and paid for. You are solely responsible for how you use this extension. The author accepts no liability for account actions taken by Udemy. This extension is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Udemy, Inc. ━━━ OPEN SOURCE ━━━ https://github.com/iamafram/udemy-transcript-extractor