YouTube Transcript Extractor
Paste any YouTube video URL — or a whole list, one per line. The agent pulls the full transcript for each video, manual or auto-generated, with timestamps and a downloadable .srt. Optionally pick a caption language or auto-translate.
- Paste one or many YouTube video URLs and pull the full transcript for each in one run.
- Works with manual captions and YouTube's auto-generated captions, in any available language.
- Returns clean plain text, timestamped segments, and a ready-to-save .srt subtitle file.
- Optionally auto-translate the transcript to another language; export every row to CSV / Excel.
Last updated: June 2026
Built for operators, not for clicking.
Any caption track
Grabs human-written subtitles when they exist and falls back to YouTube's auto-generated captions when they don't — so almost every video returns a transcript.
Text, segments & .srt
Each video comes back as clean plain text, a list of timestamped segments (start, duration, text), and a full .srt subtitle string ready to save.
Pick a language or translate
Choose preferred caption languages, or set a target language and let YouTube auto-translate the transcript before it's returned.
Up to 50 videos at once
Paste a whole list of URLs — each becomes a row with its transcript, language, word count and segments — then export the batch to CSV or Excel.
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YouTube Transcript Extractor questions.
How do I get the transcript of a YouTube video?
Paste the video URL (or several, one per line) and run the agent. It locates the video's caption track — manual subtitles first, then YouTube's auto-generated captions — downloads it, and returns the full transcript as plain text, timestamped segments, and an .srt file you can export.
Does it work with auto-generated captions?
Yes. If a video has no human-written subtitles, the agent falls back to YouTube's automatic speech-recognition captions. You can also force manual-only if you prefer human transcripts.
Can I choose the language or translate the transcript?
Enter one or more preferred language codes (e.g. en, es) and the agent picks the best matching track. Set a "Translate to" code to have YouTube auto-translate the captions into that language before returning them.
Can I transcribe many videos at once?
Yes — paste up to 50 video URLs, one per line. Each video becomes its own row with its transcript, word count, language and timestamps, and the whole batch exports to one CSV or Excel file.
What formats do I get back?
For every video: a clean plain-text transcript, a list of timestamped segments (start, duration, text), and a full .srt subtitle string — plus the title, channel, detected language, word count and segment count. Pair it with the YouTube data scraper or YouTube downloader for a fuller workflow.
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