Paste a video or Shorts link to get its transcript from the captions — uploaded or auto-generated. Turn timestamps on or off, pick a language, copy it, or download it as .txt or .srt.
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A transcript is the fastest way to study a video without watching it twice: you can see exactly how long the intro took, where the promise of the title is paid off, and which lines carried the story. It is also the raw material for a blog post, a description, chapters or captions in another language.
Most viewers decide in the opening lines. Check how fast the video states what the viewer gets — and compare it with the title's promise.
Hey guys, welcome back to the channel, before we start make sure to…
My Shorts went from 40,000 views to 900 in a week. Here's the one setting that caused it.
Search the transcript for the main words of the title. If the payoff appears only near the end, retention usually sags in the middle.
The answer to the title arrives at 11:40 of 12:00
A first answer by 0:45, the full story after
Timestamps where the topic changes make good chapters; the two or three sentences that sum up the video make a better description than a keyword list.
Keyword-stuffed description with no structure
Two-sentence summary + chapters at each topic change
Rewrites are illustrative examples, not measured results.
Yes. No sign-up, no account. Paste a video or Shorts link and the transcript appears with timestamps; copy it or download it as .txt or .srt.
The transcript comes from the video's captions. If the creator turned captions off, or YouTube hasn't generated automatic captions (common for music, very new or very short videos), there is nothing to show.
When the video has captions in several languages, a language menu appears above the transcript. Auto-generated captions are only available in the language YouTube detected.
Usually good for clear speech, weaker for names, numbers, slang and music. The page tells you whether you're reading uploaded or auto-generated captions.
For research, notes and short quotes with credit, yes. Republishing someone's full script as your own is not fair use and can get your video or post taken down.