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YouTube Transcript Viewer

Paste a video link to pull its real captions — toggle timestamps on or off, then copy or download.

Only works on videos that actually have captions available — auto-generated or manually uploaded.

Creator guide

Use real captions as a research shortcut, not a replacement for watching

A transcript is exactly as accurate as YouTube's own caption track — useful for skimming, quoting, or searching a long video fast, but auto-captions can and do contain real errors.

What this tool does

Extracts the video's real caption track (auto-generated or manually uploaded) and cleans up YouTube's rolling caption format into readable, deduplicated text.

How to use the result

Toggle timestamps on when you need to jump back to a specific moment, off when you just want to read or search the words.

A simple way to use this tool

  1. Skim the plain-text mode to find the section you actually need.
  2. Switch to timestamped mode when you need to jump back to the video itself.
  3. Treat quotes from auto-captions as approximate until you verify against the actual audio.
FAQ

Common questions

Not every video has captions. If the creator disabled auto-captions and never uploaded their own, there's genuinely nothing to extract — the same as clicking the CC button on YouTube itself and seeing nothing appear.

Exactly as accurate as YouTube's own captions for that video — we're reading the real caption track, not generating our own. Auto-captions can contain the same errors you'd see with CC turned on.

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