MediaScribeGuides
YouTube transcript & subtitle guides
Short, practical how-tos for getting the words out of a YouTube video — read them, copy them, download subtitles, translate, or export to a file. Every guide is free, with no sign-in, and runs on the captions YouTube already provides.
YouTube Transcript
Get the words out of any video — see them, copy them, search them, keep the timestamps.
- YouTube TranscriptStart here — the overview
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- YouTube transcript extractor
- YouTube transcript with timestamps
- TED talk transcript
- How to copy a YouTube transcript
- How to see the transcript on YouTube
- Download a YouTube transcript
- Search a YouTube transcript
- YouTube transcript API — and the no-code way
- YouTube video transcript
- YouTube transcript Chrome extension
Download YouTube subtitles
Pull the caption track as a file or text — SRT, VTT, or clean prose, in any language.
YouTube to text
Turn a video into readable, reusable text you can paste, translate and export.
Get the transcript now
Paste a YouTube link into the free tool on the home page — or add the Chrome extension for one-click transcripts on every video.