Free YouTube Transcript Generator

Turn Any YouTube Video Into Text in Seconds

Paste any YouTube video link and get the full transcript in seconds. Copy it clean, keep the timestamps, or download it as a file.

Works with any public YouTube video that has captions.

Paste a link.

Any public YouTube video with captions works.

We fetch the captions.

The transcript comes straight from the video's caption track, with timing preserved.

Copy or download.

Grab clean text for quoting and rewriting, or SRT with timestamps for subtitles and edits.

What you can do with a transcript

A transcript turns a video into text you can actually work with. Creators repurpose transcripts into blog posts, newsletters, and social threads. Students and researchers quote and search hours of lectures without scrubbing through playback. Editors use SRT files as the starting point for subtitles and translations. And if you are studying a competitor's video, reading the transcript is the fastest way to see exactly how they structure an argument, a tutorial, or a story.

From transcript to new content

The transcript of a top video on your topic is research gold: it shows the hooks, the phrasing, and the points that kept people watching. Read it, note what is missing, then write your own take. When you are ready, the free AI Script Generator drafts your script and the AI Description Generator writes the description to match.

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FAQs

Paste the video link into the box above and click Get transcript. The full transcript appears in seconds, and you can copy it or download it as a TXT or SRT file.
Transcripts come from a video's caption track. If a video has captions disabled and YouTube has not processed automatic captions for it, there is nothing to fetch.
Transcripts from creator-uploaded captions are usually very accurate. Auto-generated captions are good but not perfect, especially with names, niche terms, and heavy accents.
Yes. Toggle timestamps on to see when each line is spoken, or download the SRT file to keep the full timing data.
Fetching a transcript for research, study, or accessibility is fine. The video itself remains the creator's copyrighted work, so quote and reference rather than republishing someone else's transcript as your own content.
Yes. Transcripts are free and unlimited, no signup needed.

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