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We pull captions straight from YouTube, with timestamps and speaker breaks intact.
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Multiple formats
Export as plain text, SRT, or VTT — with or without timestamps.
100+ languages
Auto-detected captions in over a hundred languages, switchable on the fly.
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Common questions
Yes — 100% free, no signup, no credit card. We support the site with non-intrusive ads so the core tool can stay free for everyone.
Over 100 languages. The transcript language is auto-detected from the video’s available captions, and you can switch between any tracks YouTube offers.
Any public YouTube video that has captions enabled — either creator-uploaded or YouTube’s auto-generated ones. Private, age-gated, and members-only videos are not supported.
Yes — download as plain text (TXT) with or without timestamps, or as subtitle files in SRT or VTT format.
A public developer API is coming soon. Drop us a note via the contact page if you’d like early access.
We use YouTube’s own captions, so accuracy matches what you’d see in the YouTube player. Creator-uploaded captions are typically near-perfect; auto-generated captions are very good but may miss proper nouns or acronyms.
Yes — transcripts are cached and given a permanent page so they’re fast to access on repeat visits and discoverable by search engines.
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