YouTube Transcript Extractor
Extract the Transcript of Any YouTube Video
Paste a YouTube link and extract the complete transcript with timestamps in seconds. Copy it, search it, or download as TXT, SRT or VTT. Free, no account needed.
Extract transcripts in seconds
Our YouTube transcript extractor pulls the full caption track from any public video and rebuilds it as a clean, readable document. Each line keeps its original timestamp so you know exactly where in the video every word was said. Useful for note-taking, research, accessibility, and content repurposing.
Multiple output formats
Extract the transcript as plain text for documents, with timestamps for reference, or as an SRT subtitle file for video editing software. VTT format is also available for web players. All formats are free, all downloads are instant.
How it works
From link to transcript in three steps
No software, no account, no waiting around. The whole thing takes a few seconds.
Paste the link
Copy any YouTube, Instagram Reel or TikTok URL and drop it in the box. Shorts, podcasts and long-form all work.
01We pull the words
We grab the captions or run the audio through speech recognition, then clean up the text and align timestamps.
02Copy, search, export
Read it as a tidy paragraph, jump to any timestamp, search a phrase, or export to TXT, SRT or VTT.
03FAQ
Common questions
Paste the YouTube video URL above and press Extract. The full transcript appears immediately with all timestamps.
Currently one video at a time. Paste each URL and extract — there's no limit on how many you do.
If the creator didn't add captions and YouTube hasn't auto-generated them, there's no caption track to extract. Most videos on YouTube do have auto-generated captions.
Accuracy depends on the source: manually-created captions are typically 95-99% accurate; auto-generated captions are usually 80-90% accurate for clear speech.
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