Free tool
YouTube transcript downloader
One video or ten thousand. Paste any YouTube URL and get clean, readable text back in seconds.
Download a transcriptSingle videos are free and instant
Paste a watch URL, a youtu.be short link, or a Shorts URL. You get the full transcript with timestamps, ready to copy or download, with no account and no watermark.
The difference from every other downloader
Most tools stop at one video. This one treats a channel or playlist as a single job, which is the part that actually takes time when you are working with an archive rather than a clip.
Clean text, not caption soup
Raw YouTube captions arrive as overlapping fragments with rolling duplicates. Those are de-duplicated and regrouped into paragraphs by natural pauses, so the output reads like prose instead of a subtitle file.
Every format, re-exportable
Pick TXT, Markdown, SRT, VTT, CSV, JSON, or AI-ready. Transcripts stay in your library, so switching format later never means extracting again.
Questions
Is it really free?
Yes — extraction and every export format are free to use, with no account.
Does it work on Shorts and live replays?
Yes, as long as the video has captions available.
Can I get timestamps?
Yes. SRT and VTT are timestamped by nature, and TXT and Markdown have an optional timestamp mode.