TubeNotes: Transcript Export for YouTube

Export YouTube transcripts with timestamps, language tracks and chapters as TXT, Markdown, SRT or VTT.

TubeNotes helps you turn a YouTube transcript into something you can read, quote and keep. Open a YouTube video and click TubeNotes; it reads the captions right away. TubeNotes first chooses captions in your interface language when available, preferring manual captions, then falls back to manual English captions or another available track. You can choose another caption language; manual and automatic tracks are labelled. Read the transcript beside its timestamps. Click a timestamp to jump to that moment in the video. If you switch videos, scan again before copying or exporting a transcript. Copy the transcript to your clipboard or download it as TXT, Markdown, SRT or VTT. TXT can include or omit timestamps. Markdown includes the video title, channel and source URL, with chapter headings when the video provides player chapters or chapter timestamps in its description. Available chapters also group the transcript in the popup, so you can move through a longer talk by topic. TubeNotes uses captions already available on YouTube. If caption requests do not return usable text, it tries YouTube's transcript data and then the page's transcript panel. The source is shown in the popup. For these fallback sources, the transcript language is the one shown on YouTube and may differ from the caption language you selected. Availability depends on the video; TubeNotes does not create missing captions or translate them. Your transcript is processed on your device. Only display and export preferences are saved locally. No account, analytics, AI service or separate upload is required. TubeNotes is an independent extension and is not affiliated with YouTube or Google.