Transcript Download for YouTube

Download the transcript of a YouTube video as SRT, WebVTT or plain text.

Save the transcript of any YouTube video as a file, in one click. Transcript Download adds a small button to the action bar below the video, next to Share and Save. Click it, pick a format, and the transcript is saved to your downloads. FORMATS • SRT: subtitles for video players and editors. Files are named "Title [video id].en.srt", so players such as VLC pick them up next to a downloaded video. • WebVTT: subtitles for HTML5 and web players. • Plain text: readable paragraphs, one per chapter, with the chapter titles as headings. • Text with timestamps: one line per caption, just like YouTube's transcript panel. FEATURES • Works with manual and auto-generated transcripts. • Saves the language you picked in YouTube's transcript panel, and tells you which one that is. • Clean subtitle timing: overlapping auto-generated cues are fixed so players never stack two lines. • Matches YouTube's light and dark theme. • Menu in English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, German, Czech, Italian, Polish and Russian. • The button is greyed out when a video has no transcript, so you never get an empty file. USE IT WITH AI • Give a video's text to an AI assistant or LLM to summarize it, ask questions about it or translate it. • Plain text works best: no timestamps, so fewer tokens. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign up, no API key. • No limits: save as many transcripts as you like, free. • Nothing is sent to us or anyone else. The file is built on the page you are watching. • Runs on youtube.com only and asks for no other access. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO It saves the transcript YouTube already has for a video. It does not transcribe audio, and it does not translate or summarize by itself. Videos without a transcript cannot be downloaded. Works in Google Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers, such as Microsoft Edge, Brave, Vivaldi and Opera. Not affiliated with or endorsed by YouTube or Google.