YouTube Transcript
Downloader + Quote Cards
Pull the full transcript of any video — every language, auto or human captions — as TXT, clean paragraphs, SRT, VTT or JSON. Then the signature: turn any line into a Quote card — a shareable PNG with the video attribution and a timestamp link, rendered entirely in your browser.
Works with watch links, Shorts, live URLs and youtu.be shorteners. You'll get every caption track YouTube has — pick a language, read it, search it, export it.
Fetch a transcript above and every line becomes clickable here — or just type any quote below; the studio works standalone too.
Rendered at 1080×1080 on a local canvas — nothing is uploaded, nothing is watermarked. Instagram & LinkedIn feed.
Any transcript line becomes a shareable PNG — three formats, three themes, video attribution and a timestamp link, drawn on a local canvas with no watermark.
Timestamped TXT, clean paragraph TXT, SRT and VTT subtitle files, or structured JSON with millisecond offsets for scripts and pipelines.
All caption tracks YouTube stores — human-uploaded subtitles and auto-generated (ASR) captions — selectable from one picker.
Fragmented auto-captions merged into readable prose. Turn a 20-minute video into a blog-ready draft in one click.
Reference
Which transcript format do you need?
Every export reads from the same caption track — the difference is packaging. Subtitle editors want SRT or VTT with exact cue times; writers want clean text; developers want JSON they can parse without regex.
| Format | Timestamps | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| TXT (timestamped) | [m:ss] per line | Notes, research, citations |
| TXT (clean paragraphs) | None | Blog posts, summaries, AI prompts |
| SRT | 00:00:00,000 cues | Premiere, DaVinci, CapCut, re-subtitling |
| VTT | 00:00:00.000 cues | Web players, HTML5 <track> elements |
| JSON | Millisecond offsets | Scripts, NLP pipelines, apps |
How to
How to download a transcript from YouTube
Any format works: watch link, youtu.be shortener, Shorts URL or live URL — extra parameters like ?t= and &list= are ignored.
The 11-character video ID is parsed locally, then the server reads the video's caption tracks — the same data behind YouTube's own "Show transcript" panel.
Every available track is listed with its language and whether it's human-authored or auto-generated. Switch tracks and the transcript reloads instantly.
Download TXT, clean paragraphs, SRT, VTT or JSON — or copy the whole transcript (or a single line with its ?t= link) to the clipboard.
Who it's for
One transcript, a dozen workflows
Writers & marketers repurpose long-form video into blog posts, newsletters and threads — clean paragraphs mode hands you prose, not caption fragments.
Editors & subtitlers pull the SRT or VTT, fix the lines that ASR got wrong, and re-import into Premiere, DaVinci Resolve or CapCut — faster than transcribing from scratch.
Researchers & students search inside hour-long lectures, quote with exact ?t= timestamp links, and cite the original moment instead of paraphrasing from memory.
Developers & AI builders feed the JSON export — millisecond offsets included — into summarisers, RAG pipelines, translation jobs and search indexes without scraping anything themselves.
Two ways
Take the text or make it travel
Sometimes you need the whole transcript as a file; sometimes one sentence deserves its own audience. Both start from the same caption track.
The whole transcript
Everything YouTube stores, packaged for the tool you use next:
TXT / paragraphs— notes, blog drafts, summaries and AI promptsSRT / VTT— subtitle editing in Premiere, Resolve or CapCutJSON— millisecond offsets for scripts and pipelines
One line, framed
The signature. The best sentence of the video, ready to post:
3 formats— square for feeds, wide for X, story for Shorts & Reelsattribution built in— the video title plus an optional youtu.be timestamp linklocal canvas— deterministic layout, no upload, no watermark
Which should I use?
Repurposing the content — export, in the format your next tool expects. Promoting the video — Quote cards: pull the three strongest lines, render one per platform, and let each card link people back with its timestamp.
One tool, every intent
However you searched for it, this is the page
People land here to download a transcript, grab subtitles as SRT, or turn a video into text they can quote. One caption track serves all of it.
Transcript to text, properly
Auto-captions arrive as fragments. Clean-paragraphs mode merges them into prose with sentences and punctuation-aware breaks — the difference between a data dump and a draft.
Subtitles download, both kinds
Human-uploaded tracks and auto-generated (ASR) captions are both listed, labelled, and exportable as SRT or VTT with exact cue times — ready for any editor.
Quote with receipts
Every line copies with its youtu.be?t= link, and Quote cards bake the timestamp into the image — your citation always points at the exact second.
No extension required
Everything runs on this page — desktop, tablet or phone. No Chrome extension, no account, no per-video limit, no watermark on anything you export.
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Keep the workflow going
Got the transcript? Turn it into chapters, pull the description, or grab the thumbnail — the whole video, reverse-engineered.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Is this YouTube transcript downloader free?+
Yes — YT.Tools is a 100% free YouTube transcript downloader. No signup, no watermark, no per-video limit and no Chrome extension to install. Paste a URL and export the transcript as TXT, SRT, VTT or JSON.
How do I download a transcript from YouTube?+
Copy the video URL (watch, Shorts, live or youtu.be link), paste it into the box above and hit Get transcript. The tool reads YouTube's own caption tracks — the same data behind the "Show transcript" button — and lets you download it in the format you need.
Which export formats are supported?+
Four: plain TXT with timestamps, clean paragraph TXT (timestamps stripped, lines merged into readable prose), SRT and VTT subtitle files with exact start/end times, and structured JSON with millisecond offsets for developers.
What are Quote cards?+
This tool's signature: pick any line from the transcript (or paste your own) and the studio renders it as a shareable PNG — square, wide or story format, three themes, with the video attribution and an optional youtu.be timestamp link. Everything is drawn on a canvas in your browser: no upload, no watermark.
Can I download transcripts in other languages?+
If the creator uploaded caption tracks in multiple languages — or YouTube auto-generated them — every available track appears in the language picker. Pick one and the transcript re-loads in that language instantly.