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YouTube Transcripts for Videos, Playlists and Channels
Get the transcript from a single video, or process an entire playlist or channel in one go. Copy it, search across it, or download it as TXT, SRT, VTT or JSON.
Paste a YouTube video link
One video, or several pasted together. Duplicates are removed.
Press Ctrl + Enter to fetch
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Paste a YouTube link above and press Fetch transcripts. Each video comes back as its own card.
Any link shape works
Videos, Shorts, playlists, channels, or a bare video ID. Duplicates are removed.
Real captions, not guesses
Human-written captions are preferred, with YouTube's automatic ones as the fallback.
Copy or download
Copy as clean prose or with timestamps, or export TXT, SRT, VTT and JSON.
Playlists and channels
Process a whole playlist or channel in the background and watch progress as it goes.
How it works
- 1Paste a linkA video, a playlist, or a whole channel.
- 2We find the captionsHuman-written captions are preferred, with YouTube's automatic ones as the fallback.
- 3Copy or downloadRead it on screen, copy it, search it, or export it as a subtitle or text file.
What you can do
YouTube Transcript
Get the transcript of any single video and copy it straight out.
YouTube Playlist Transcript
Process a whole playlist at once, 10 videos at a time, and pick up where you left off.
YouTube Channel Transcript
Work through a channel's videos, 10 at a time, resuming where you stopped.
YouTube Bulk Transcript
Paste a long list of links and get every transcript in one pass.
Transcript Downloader
Export as TXT, SRT, VTT or JSON — one video, or a whole set as a ZIP.
YouTube to Text
Turn a video into clean, readable paragraphs with no timestamps.
Free, and staying that way
Every tool here is free and needs no account: single videos, bulk lists, playlists and whole channels. A single run handles up to 10 videos, and collections can be resumed, so a long playlist is a few runs rather than one impossible one.
What this tool does not do
Transcripts are read from the captions YouTube already publishes for a video. This tool does not download video or audio files, and it does not run speech recognition — so a video with no captions of any kind cannot be transcribed here.
Frequently asked questions
- Is it free?
- Yes. Everything is free and needs no account: single videos, bulk lists, playlists and whole channels. One run handles up to 10 videos.
- Does it download video files?
- No. It retrieves the captions YouTube publishes for a video and lets you copy or download those as text or subtitle files. It does not download video or audio.
- What if a video has no captions?
- Then there is nothing to retrieve. This tool does not perform speech recognition, so a video with no captions at all cannot be transcribed here.
- Which languages are supported?
- Whichever captions the video has. Human-written caption tracks are preferred over automatic ones, and the language menu lists every track the video actually carries. Machine translation of an existing track into English is also available.
Diagnostics — when a video will not load
Runs each retrieval method against one video and reports exactly what YouTube said. The fastest way to tell a blocked network apart from a video that simply has no captions.