Clean it, search it, reuse it.
Paste a YouTube transcript and get readable paragraphs, clickable timestamps, in-page search, and SRT/VTT/TXT/JSON export. Then turn it into a blog post, a thread, or a summary. Free, no signup, nothing stored.
- Open the video on YouTube and click the ⋯ under the title (or "more" in the description).
- Choose Show transcript. A panel opens on the right.
- Select the whole panel, copy, and paste it below. Timestamps and all.
Do something with it
optional AIEverything above runs in your browser with no AI. These actions send the transcript to a free-tier model once, to answer, and keep nothing.
Questions
How do I get a YouTube transcript?
Open the video on YouTube, click the three dots under the title, choose Show transcript, then select the transcript text and copy it. Paste it here. YouTube gives every viewer that transcript for free, so no tool needs to fetch it for you.
Why does this ask me to paste instead of taking a URL?
Because URL-based transcript tools fetch YouTube from a server, and YouTube blocks server IP addresses. I tested it from a Cloudflare data centre before building this: every request came back HTTP 429 with a bot wall, on videos that definitely have captions. Tools that appear to work either pay for residential proxies or fail intermittently and tell you your video "has no captions" when the truth is their server got blocked. Pasting always works, and it can't break when YouTube changes something.
Is this a YouTube downloader?
No. Transcript text only. It never downloads, converts or re-transcribes video or audio, and it doesn't touch the media file.
Do the AI features cost anything?
No. They run on a free-tier model and need no signup from you. Everything else works with no AI at all: cleaning, timestamps, search and export are plain deterministic code running in your browser.
Is my transcript stored?
No. Cleaning, search and export happen entirely in your browser. Nothing leaves the page. If you use an AI action, the transcript is sent once to the model to answer, and kept afterwards by neither me nor this site.
Can I export SRT or VTT subtitles?
Yes, when your pasted transcript has timestamps. You get TXT, SRT, VTT or JSON. End times are derived from the next segment's start, which is how YouTube's own caption timing works.
This turns a video into a blog post in about ten seconds. Whether that post ever gets read by an answer engine is a different question, and it's the one I get paid to answer.
Transcripts are YouTube's own publicly available caption tracks, which you copy yourself from YouTube's interface, for personal and research use. This tool does not download, convert or re-transcribe video or audio, and makes no claim to. It only formats text you already have.