YouTube Transcript
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- A structured summary of a three-hour video in about a minute.
- Timestamps to jump to the moment, and a chat that answers who said what.
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How to get a transcript from a YouTube video
1. Copy the video link
From the address bar, the Share button or the video's menu: any watch, youtu.be, Shorts or embed link works.
2. Get the transcript
We fetch the captions from YouTube and lay them out as text, line by line.
3. Copy and use it
One click copies the whole transcript. Paste it into your notes, a document, or a summary tool.
Questions about YouTube transcripts
Paste the video link above and press Get transcript. We read the video's own captions and show the full text, ready to copy. No sign-in, no extension needed.
They are off by default. Turn on Show timestamps and every line starts with its moment as [HH:MM:SS], and the copy button takes those prefixes with the text.
Any public YouTube video with captions, up to 3 hours long. Private, removed, members-only and age-restricted videos can't be read, and live streams get their transcript after the recording ends.
Nothing. The page is free, up to 40 videos per address a day. Re-opening a video you already fetched is served from our cache and doesn't count.
The text is exactly what YouTube's captions say, including [Music] markers and >> speaker changes. Auto-generated captions can mishear names and technical words, so read them with that in mind.