YouTube Transcript Extractor
Paste a YouTube URL and get the transcript in seconds — free, no sign-up, no software to install.
How it works
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Copy the URL of the YouTube video you want to transcribe.
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Paste that URL into the box above.
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Press Generate Transcript and your text appears — copy it or download it.
This page extracts the transcript from a YouTube video and gives it to you as clean text — the words, in order, without the player, the ads, or the surrounding page. It is the tool for when you want the content of a video as a document rather than as something to watch.
Paste the link, and the caption text comes back ready to copy or download. Because it reads the video's own caption track, it is fast and it does not guess at words that were never captioned.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does "extract" mean here?
- It reads the video's caption track and gives you the text. Nothing is transcribed from audio, so the result is the captions as the video carries them — accurate to the source rather than to a fresh listening pass.
- Is there a length limit?
- No practical one. Long videos yield long transcripts and the page keeps them organised into groups.
- Can I extract from a video I do not own?
- You can read the text, and quoting from it is normal. Republishing someone else's video content wholesale is a rights question, and that is on you rather than on the tool.
- Does it work on Shorts?
- Yes. Shorts, standard videos, and live replays with captions are all handled — paste whichever link form you have.
- Why do I sometimes see repeated words?
- Auto-generated captions repeat words when the recogniser revises itself mid-sentence. The text is reproduced as the video provides it rather than silently rewritten.