YouTube Transcript Extractor

YouTube Transcript Extractor: get the full YouTube video transcript next to the player. Search, translate, copy or download it.

YouTube Transcript Extractor adds a Transcript button under every YouTube video. One click opens the full text of the video right next to the player, with timestamps. Search it, translate it, copy it or save it as a file. 💡 Why not the built-in YouTube transcript YouTube hides its transcript behind the three-dot menu, and copying it gives you broken lines with a timestamp on every second row. This YouTube transcript extractor cleans the text, joins lines into paragraphs and lets you turn timestamps on or off. It opens in the spoken language of the video, not in the language of your YouTube interface. 📌 How to get transcript of YouTube video 1️⃣ Open any video or Short on youtube.com 2️⃣ Click Transcript under the video (or press Alt+T) 3️⃣ Read, search or click a line to jump to that moment 4️⃣ Press Copy, or choose Export and a file format That is how to get the transcript of a YouTube video in about a second. There is no link to paste into a website and no sign-up. ⚡ YouTube to transcript without leaving the page Online tools make you copy the link, open another tab and wait. With the YouTube transcript extractor you skip all of that. Here the YouTube video transcript is already next to the player, so you can watch and read at the same time. The YT transcript also follows the video: the current line is highlighted and the panel scrolls with it. 🔎 Read and search inside the video ➤ Click any line and the video jumps to that second ➤ Search finds every match and shows how many there are ➤ Chapters appear as headings. Untick one to drop a sponsor segment or an intro from your copy and files ➤ Light and dark theme follow your YouTube setting 🌍 Any caption track, any language Pick the original captions or the auto-generated ones. Translate the transcript into any language YouTube supports: German, Spanish, Japanese and more than 100 others. The translation comes from YouTube itself, so it costs nothing and works without an account. 📝 Transcribe YouTube video to text from its captions Most people who want to transcribe a YouTube video need the words YouTube already has in its captions. The extension turns those captions into readable text: it removes [Music] tags, restores sentence breaks and builds paragraphs from pauses in speech. Writers use it as a YouTube script extractor to quote a talk word for word. 💾 Download YouTube transcript files ✔ TXT: clean text with the title and a link to the video at the top ✔ SRT and VTT: subtitle files with exact timing ✔ Markdown: chapters as headings, timestamps as links back to the video ✔ JSON: every line with its start time, for your own scripts ✔ The file is named after the video, so you find it later 📚 Transcript for YouTube videos in bulk Add videos to the queue, or open a playlist or a channel and press Add all. The YouTube transcript downloader collects up to 500 videos in a background tab and saves every transcript into one ZIP file or one long text file. 🤖 YouTube video to text for ChatGPT and Claude The For AI button copies the transcript together with a short prompt: summary, key points, study notes or questions and answers. It then opens ChatGPT or Claude in a new tab, and you paste with Ctrl+V. A 3-hour lecture is too long for one message? The extension counts tokens and splits the text into parts. 🎬 Built for long videos and Shorts The YouTube Transcript Extractor handles a 12-hour stream as easily as a 30-second Short. The panel stays fast because it only draws the lines you can see. Shorts get their own round button in the side column. 🔒 Privacy YouTube Transcript Extractor reads only the captions YouTube already shows for that video. It has no server and no account, sends your data nowhere and has no limits. It asks for access to youtube.com only. ⚠️ One honest limit: videos without any captions cannot be turned into text here. In that case the panel says so instead of showing an empty page. ❓ Questions Is YouTube Transcript Extractor free? Yes. Single videos have no limits and need no account. Is it a YouTube transcript generator? It builds the transcript from the captions of the video, so the text matches what YouTube shows, and you get YouTube transcript text without uploading the video anywhere. Can I download a YouTube transcript as a text file? Yes. Export saves TXT, SRT, VTT, Markdown or JSON. How do I get the YouTube transcript in another language? Pick a caption track in the panel, or press Translate and choose any language. Can I save transcripts of a whole playlist? Yes. Open the playlist, click the extension icon and press Add all to queue. 🚀 Install YouTube Transcript Extractor, open any video and click Transcript under the player. The full text is there in a second.