YouTube transcript and subtitle tools
These run on the same endpoint our developers call from their own code — no separate scraper, no different results. Free, no account needed to read the output, and a small daily allowance per visitor because every conversion is a real fetch.
Transcript Generator
Paste a video link and read the whole transcript as plain text, with timestamps you can click to jump into the video. Good for pulling a quote or skimming a two-hour talk before committing to it.
Open the transcript tool →SRT / VTT Converter
Turn the same caption track into a finished subtitle file. SRT for players and editors, WebVTT for HTML5 video. Cues are timestamped and de-overlapped server-side, so the file is ready to load rather than ready to fix.
Open the subtitle converter →Video Summarizer
A TLDR, the key points with the timestamp each one starts at, and a few topic tags. Built from the caption track rather than the audio, so it is only as good as the captions — but it tells you in seconds whether a video is worth your half hour.
Summarize a video →Transcript Translator
Read the caption track in one language and get it back in another, timestamps intact, with a subtitle file alongside it. Useful when a video only has captions in a language you do not read.
Translate a transcript →Channel Extractor
Point it at a channel URL or an @handle and get the recent uploads listed, each one a click away from its transcript. Listing a channel costs us nothing, so this allowance is far roomier than the others.
Browse a channel →Playlist Extractor
The same for a playlist, in playlist order. Handy for a course, a conference track, or a podcast series you would rather read than sit through.
Open a playlist →Word Count & Reading Time
How many words a video actually contains, how fast the speaker talks, and how long the transcript takes to read. Usually a good deal less time than watching, which is the point.
Count the words →Do this in bulk — the API
One video at a time stops being useful somewhere around video thirty. The API behind these tools takes a video, a playlist or a whole channel, returns json, txt, srt or vtt, and will POST you a webhook when a channel you follow uploads something new.
Read the API reference →