YouTube Transcript Extractor

Paste a YouTube link and we'll show you the transcript as timestamped text. Click any line and the video jumps straight to that moment.

ℹ️This pulls captions YouTube already generated (auto or manual). It's not new AI transcription, so videos without captions aren't supported. Copyright is the user's responsibility.

Paste your YouTube linkwatch, youtu.be, and shorts links all work.

Where do the captions come from

How it works

This pulls the captions YouTube already generated (auto or uploaded by the creator) and shows them with timestamps. Since it's not running new speech recognition, videos without captions aren't supported. Click a line and the video jumps to that moment.

Who this is for

Anyone who needs to find just one part of a long video, anyone turning a lecture into written notes, anyone repurposing a video's content into a blog post.

Not available right now

YouTube is currently blocking requests coming from data centers, so transcripts can't be fetched right now. Since requests go through a server, that's exactly where it's getting blocked, and we're looking for a workaround. We'll post an update once it's fixed.

Tools worth pairing with this

Keyword CheckerIf you wrote a post from an extracted transcript, check whether it actually picked up the keywords you were targeting.

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