Get the text of a YouTube video
Paste a YouTube link and get the clean text of what is said, with times, ready to copy. Reads the captions, no download. Free preview.
or paste the transcript of the video
This preview shows the first 250 words and does not keep your file.
Need a different result? Turn anything into anything: drop any file, pick what you want out of it.Try it →YouTube shows captions as many short lines with no punctuation. This tool takes them and sets them as sentences and paragraphs with a time at the start of each, so you can copy, quote or search the text of the video.
What you get
Sentences and paragraphs
Caption fragments are joined into readable text, with the time of each paragraph.
Nothing added
The text is what is said. It is not summarized or rewritten.
Copy and keep
Copy it, or keep it as a document in your account and ask questions about it.
How it works
- Step 1
Paste the link of the video.
- Step 2
Read the cleaned transcript.
- Step 3
Create a free account to get the whole transcript and ask questions about it.
Who uses it
Journalists
Quote a speech accurately, with the time.
Students
Search a lecture for a term.
Accessibility
Read a video instead of watching it.
Questions
Does it download the video?
No. It reads the public captions of the video, the same text YouTube shows when you turn subtitles on. Nothing is downloaded, and your link is not kept.
What if the video has no captions?
Then there is nothing to read. Paste the transcript into the box instead, or open the video's three-dot menu on YouTube and choose Show transcript.
Which languages work?
Any language the video has captions in. The result is written in the language of the captions unless you ask for another in your account.
Is automatic caption text accurate?
Automatic captions can mishear names and numbers. This tool tidies the text but does not fix what the captions got wrong.