YouTube Subtitle Downloader

Download YouTube subtitles in any language - SRT, TXT, or copy to clipboard. 70+ languages supported.

📥 THE SIMPLEST WAY TO DOWNLOAD YOUTUBE SUBTITLES Download any YouTube video's subtitles with just one click. No complicated setup, no API keys, no account required. Just install and start downloading! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ KEY FEATURES • ONE-CLICK DOWNLOAD Click the extension icon to instantly download subtitles. No pop-ups, no extra steps. • DYNAMIC LANGUAGE MENU Right-click menu shows only languages available for the current video. No guessing—see exactly what you can download! • MULTIPLE FORMATS Choose between SRT (with timestamps) for video editing, TXT (clean text) for reading, or copy directly to clipboard. • SMART DETECTION Automatically distinguishes between manual subtitles and YouTube's auto-generated captions. • PERSISTENT PREFERENCES Your format and language choices are saved and remembered across sessions. • SMART FILE NAMING Files automatically use the video title and language code (e.g., "Python_Tutorial_en.srt") for easy organization. • TOAST NOTIFICATIONS Visual feedback confirms successful downloads, copies, or errors. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📄 EXPORT FORMATS ┌─────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ SRT │ Standard subtitle format with │ │ │ timestamps. Perfect for video players, │ │ │ editing software (Premiere, Final Cut), │ │ │ adding subtitles to your videos. │ ├─────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ TXT │ Clean plain text without timestamps. │ │ │ Ideal for reading, note-taking, │ │ │ studying, AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude). │ ├─────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ Copy │ Copy text directly to clipboard. │ │ │ Quick paste into documents, emails, │ │ │ or any application. │ └─────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────┘ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 HOW TO USE 1. Navigate to any YouTube video with subtitles 2. Play the video briefly (loads subtitle data) 3. Click the extension icon → Downloads in your selected format! 4. Right-click to change format or select from available languages ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌍 DYNAMIC LANGUAGE DETECTION Right-click the extension icon to see available languages: ┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ 🌍 Language (3 available) │ ├─────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ ● Auto (current subtitle) │ ├─────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ ── Subtitles ── │ │ ○ English │ │ ○ Spanish │ ├─────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ ── Auto-generated ── │ │ ○ English │ └─────────────────────────────────────────┘ • Menu dynamically updates for each video • Shows manual subtitles separately from auto-generated • Only displays languages the video actually has • Use "Auto" to download whatever's currently playing ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 PRIVACY-FIRST DESIGN • NO DATA COLLECTION - We don't collect any user data whatsoever • NO ANALYTICS - Zero tracking, zero telemetry • NO ACCOUNT REQUIRED - Use immediately without signup • LOCAL PROCESSING - Everything happens in your browser • NO SERVER - No backend, no data transmission to third parties • OPEN SOURCE - Transparent codebase you can verify ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ WORKS WITH • Videos with manual subtitles/captions • YouTube auto-generated captions • Any language subtitles available on the video • Regular videos and live stream archives • YouTube Shorts with captions ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ WHY CHOOSE THIS EXTENSION? Unlike other subtitle downloaders, this extension offers: ✓ 100% Free with no limitations ✓ Lightweight and fast (< 50KB) ✓ Privacy-respecting (no data collection) ✓ Dynamic language detection ✓ Multiple export formats ✓ No annoying pop-ups or ads ✓ Clean right-click interface ✓ Persistent format & language preferences ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 PERFECT FOR • Language learners studying videos • Content creators needing transcripts • Researchers analyzing video content • Students taking notes from lectures • Video editors adding subtitles • Anyone who prefers reading to watching ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💡 PRO TIPS • Use TXT format for AI tools like ChatGPT or Claude • SRT format works great with video editing software • Right-click the icon for quick access to all options • Your format choice is remembered between sessions • Download multiple languages by selecting each one ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🆘 TROUBLESHOOTING If subtitles don't download: 1. Make sure the video has subtitles (look for CC button) 2. Play the video for a few seconds first 3. Check the language menu for available options 4. Refresh the page and try again ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Made with ❤️ by NoteLM.ai Visit https://notelm.ai for more productivity tools