Paste any YouTube link. Get the full transcript in seconds. Free, no sign-up.
Auto-generated & manual captionsCopy or download as .txtWorks on any deviceNo install needed
How to Get a YouTube Video Transcript
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Copy the video URL
Grab the link from YouTube. Any format works — regular links, youtu.be short links, Shorts, mobile links, even links with timestamps or playlist parameters.
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Paste and click
Paste the URL above and hit "Get Transcript." The tool pulls the captions directly from YouTube in a couple of seconds.
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Copy or download
Read the transcript on-screen, copy it to your clipboard, or download it as a .txt file. Timestamps included — or toggle them off if you just want the text.
Who Uses This
Students & researchers
Pull transcripts from lectures, talks, and interviews. Search and quote specific passages instead of scrubbing through video.
Content creators
Repurpose video content into blog posts, show notes, or social media. Turn a 30-minute video into a draft in seconds.
Journalists & writers
Fact-check quotes, reference interviews, or review press conferences without re-watching the entire video.
Anyone learning a language
Read along with a video in another language. YouTube's auto-captions cover 100+ languages.
Works With Any YouTube Link
You don't have to clean up the URL before pasting it. The tool handles every YouTube link format, including ones with extra parameters like timestamps, playlist IDs, or tracking tags. Shorts, live streams, mobile links, embeds — all of it.
youtube.com/watch?v=...youtu.be/...youtube.com/shorts/...youtube.com/live/...youtube.com/embed/...m.youtube.com/...music.youtube.com/...URLs with ?t= &si= &list=bare video ID
Works on Any Device
This is a web-based tool. It runs in your browser — nothing to download or install. Works on Windows, Mac, Linux, Chromebook, iPhone, iPad, Android, and anything else with a modern browser. Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, Opera — all supported.
Frequently Asked Questions
Copy the video's URL from YouTube (or the share link, or even the short youtu.be link), paste it into the input field at the top of this page, and click "Get Transcript." The full transcript loads in a few seconds. From there, you can copy it to your clipboard or download it as a text file.
Yes. Completely free, no limits, no account needed. Just paste a URL and go.
Yes. After the transcript loads, click the "Download" button. You'll get two options: download with timestamps, or download as plain text. Either way, it saves as a .txt file.
Yes. It's a website, so it works in any browser on any device. Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, Android, tablets — if you can open a web browser, you can use this.
Most YouTube videos have captions — either uploaded by the creator or auto-generated by YouTube's speech recognition. If a video genuinely has no captions (some older videos, or videos where the creator disabled them), the tool will tell you. There's no way around it — if YouTube doesn't have captions for a video, nobody does.
Subtitles and closed captions (CC) are the text that appears over the video as it plays, synced to specific timestamps. A transcript is that same text pulled out of the video and presented as a readable document. This tool grabs the subtitle/caption data from YouTube and gives it to you as a transcript.
YouTube's auto-generated captions are solid for clear English speech — generally 90%+ accurate. They struggle more with heavy accents, overlapping speakers, background noise, or niche jargon. If the video creator uploaded their own captions, those are usually more reliable. The tool shows you whether the captions are auto-generated or manually added.
