Free tool
YouTube to transcript
Paste one YouTube video and read the complete transcript right here — clean text, optional timestamps, one-click copy, and no sign-up.
Read the transcript without downloading anything
The full transcript appears on this page as soon as it is ready. Turn timestamps on when you need to trace a quote back to the video, or leave them off for clean reading.
Copy once, use it anywhere
Copy the clean transcript to your notes, a document, ChatGPT, Claude, or NotebookLM. You can also download TXT immediately, and every cached re-export stays free.
The original captions, cleaned up
The words come from the video's available caption track. Rolling duplicates and awkward caption fragments are cleaned up so the result reads like text rather than caption soup.
One video here; entire archives in the workspace
This page is deliberately focused on one video. When the job grows into a playlist or channel, the bulk workspace pulls every available transcript and exports them together.
Questions
Do I need to create an account?
No. Paste a public YouTube video and get the transcript without signing in or adding a card.
Can I include timestamps?
Yes. Use the timestamp toggle above the transcript, then copy or download the timed version.
Can I choose another language?
The extractor requests English first and falls back to an available caption track. The language used is shown with the result; translation is not added to the words.
Can I transcribe a whole playlist or channel?
Yes. Open the bulk workspace to process up to 1,000 videos in one job.