YouTube Transcript Generator
Paste a YouTube link, get the full transcript in seconds: clean text or timestamped, free to copy or download as TXT, SRT or VTT.
Fetching captions…
30 free transcripts a day without an account, no ads, ever. A free account raises it to 100, Pro to 500.
How it works
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Paste a link to any YouTube video, Short or live replay that has captions. Auto-generated ones count.
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Pick a caption language. Auto-generated captions can be auto-translated by YouTube, so most videos work in your language.
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Read or copy the cleaned transcript, switch to timestamps, or download it as a TXT, SRT or VTT file.
Too long to read too?
One click sends the video to the summarizer: TL;DR, key points or a detailed breakdown, in your language.
Frequently asked questions
Any language the video actually has captions in, plus every language YouTube can auto-translate auto-generated captions into, which covers most of the languages in the selector. If the language you pick is not available for that video, you get the English track instead and the result says so.
Yes. Most YouTube videos only have auto-generated captions, and those are fetched the same way. Raw auto-captions repeat every line in rolling two-line windows; the generator collapses those duplicates so the transcript reads like normal text.
This page needs the video to have at least auto-generated captions. If it has none, the summarizer on the home page will listen to the audio instead and write you a summary from that, free with an account. Very fresh uploads also tend to get auto-captions from YouTube within a few hours, so trying again later often works.
TXT is the plain transcript, best for reading, quoting and pasting into documents. SRT and VTT are subtitle files that keep the exact start and end time of every line: SRT is the classic format almost every video editor accepts, VTT is the web standard used by HTML5 players. Same content, different wrapper.
Yes. The Timestamped tab puts a time marker on every line so you can jump to the moment something was said, and the SRT/VTT downloads keep exact start and end times for use in editors and players.
Yes: 30 transcripts a day with no account and no ads. A free account raises it to 100 a day and Pro to 500. Transcripts have their own counter, so they never eat into your daily summaries.