Paste a link, get the text
Drop in any public YouTube URL with captions and we hand you the full transcript to copy or download.
Works with watch, youtu.be, Shorts, and mobile links
How it works
Paste the YouTube URL
Any public video, Short, or youtu.be link. We read the video ID from watch, mobile, and embed links too.
We pull the captions
The spoken-word transcript is fetched from the video captions, cleaned up, and joined into readable text.
Copy or download
Read it on the page, copy the whole transcript in one click, or download it as a .txt file.
What you get
Full clean transcript
The complete spoken text of the video, joined into readable paragraphs with no timestamps in the way.
Every link format
Works with youtube.com/watch, youtu.be, Shorts, and mobile share links. Paste whatever you have.
One-click copy
Grab the entire transcript to your clipboard instantly. Paste into notes, docs, or an AI prompt.
Download as .txt
Save the transcript as a text file named after the video. Keep it, search it, or feed it to other tools.
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