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YouTube Transcript Generator: Get the Full Text of Any Video
Paste any YouTube link and get the full spoken text as a clean, timestamped transcript. We use the video's captions when they exist, or transcribe the audio with Whisper when they don't. Copy the text or export to TXT, SRT, or VTT. Free to start, no credit card.
How to get a YouTube transcript
A YouTube transcript is the full written text of everything spoken in a video. It captures every word said on screen and turns the audio into text you can read, copy, search, and reuse.
To get a transcript from a YouTube video, you just paste its link. If the video already has captions, we pull those. If it doesn't, our tool sends the audio to Whisper speech-to-text and converts what's said into accurate written text, with no extensions, plugins, or screen recording needed.
You get a clean transcript in seconds, with an [mm:ss] timestamp on every line so you can jump straight to any moment. Copy the plain text with one click, or download it as a TXT, SRT, or VTT file.
Transcription works in 50+ languages, and you can translate the finished transcript into 75+ languages, so a video in one language becomes readable text in another.
People get YouTube transcripts to repurpose videos into blog posts, scripts, and notes, to make content accessible and searchable, and to give search engines real text to index instead of an unreadable video.
How to get a transcript from a YouTube video
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Paste the YouTube link
Copy any YouTube video or Shorts URL and paste it into the box. Nothing to install.
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AI converts it to text
We use the video's captions when they exist; when they don't, Whisper transcribes the audio into accurate text in 50+ languages.
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Copy or download the transcript
Get the full timestamped transcript, copy it with one click, or export to TXT, SRT, or VTT subtitle files.
Supported sources
- YouTube videos (up to 8 hours on Premium)
- YouTube Shorts
- Videos with auto-captions
- Videos with manual captions
- Videos with no captions (transcribed with Whisper)
- Recorded livestreams
Example output
Input
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...Transcript output (with timestamps)
[00:00] This video is about deep work habits. [00:14] Main idea: 90-minute focus blocks daily. [00:35] Notifications must be silenced during deep work...
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