A creator with a few thousand videos has a problem, and so do you if you want to study them: where do you start? Reading in upload order means wading through years of material to find the good parts.
Better to let the audience tell you. Once a channel is in your Scriptube library, you can sort the whole catalogue by what mattered to viewers and read the standouts first.
The sort options
In your library, and on any channel page, you can sort by:
- Posted date, newest or oldest first
- Views
- Likes
- Comments
- Duration
- Title
- Date added, meaning when the transcript came into your library
The library also has search, a grid or list view, and filters by channel and language. Channel pages show a creator's whole catalogue in one place.
Five questions you can answer in a minute
What does the audience love most?
Sort by views, highest first. The top of the list is the creator's proven material. Read those transcripts first and you will quickly see the topics, hooks and formats that work.
What starts conversations?
Sort by comments. A video with a high comment count relative to its views often touches something people want to argue about or add to. For research on public opinion, that is a rich place to look.
What do people save and approve of?
Sort by likes. Compare it with the views ordering. Videos that rank higher on likes than on views are often the ones that satisfied the viewers who found them.
How has the creator changed over time?
Sort by posted date, oldest first, and read the first ten transcripts. Then read the latest ten. Shifts in vocabulary, focus and claims become obvious. For anyone studying a creator or a niche, this is a very fast way to get a timeline.
What is worth my limited reading time?
Sort by duration. Long videos tend to hold depth, such as interviews and live streams. Short ones are quick to skim. Pick the end of the list that matches your task.
Why this works: the stats travel with the transcript
Sorting is only possible because every transcript comes with the details of its video: title, publish date, duration, views, likes, comment count, thumbnail and channel. Those details are shown on every card, so you can judge a video before you open it. We explain this in every transcript comes with the story behind it.
One honest caveat: view, like and comment counts keep changing on YouTube, so treat them as a guide to relative popularity and check the source video for an exact figure.
A workflow for studying a creator
- Paste the channel on your dashboard. Regular uploads, Shorts and past live streams are all collected. See getting the complete channel in one paste.
- Open the channel page and sort by views.
- Read or export the top 20 transcripts.
- Re-sort by posted date to see how the message evolved.
- Export what you need as TXT, CSV, JSON, JSONL, SRT or VTT, or a ZIP of all TXT files. Reading and exporting transcripts you own is free.
If you are working on competitive research, pair this with our walkthrough on analysing a competitor's channel.
Combine with search
Sorting tells you where to look. Search tells you what to look for. Search for a keyword across your library, then sort the results by views to see which videos on that topic resonated. Our piece on searching inside transcripts has more ideas.
Tips
- Do not read only the top. The middle of the views list often holds underrated gems.
- Compare the same sort across two creators in your niche to see who really moves an audience.
- Use the language filter if you have pulled transcripts in more than one language.
Get the idea
A big channel is not a pile of videos to read in order. It is a dataset with a built-in ranking. Sort it, read the best parts first, and spend your time where it pays off.
Try it on a channel: open your dashboard and paste a URL, or see plans and credits.