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Transcript Download for YouTube

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Save the transcript of any YouTube video as a file, in one click. Subtitles for players and editors, or clean text for notes, quotes and research.

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What is Transcript Download?

YouTube shows a transcript for most videos, but gives you no way to save it. Transcript Download adds a small button to the action bar below the video. Click it, pick a format, and the transcript is in your downloads folder.

It is free and unlimited, with no account and no server in between. The file is built on the page you are watching.

How it works

The menu offers four formats: SRT and WebVTT subtitles, plain text split into chapters, and text with a timestamp on every line. It also shows which transcript language you will get. To pick another one, choose it at the bottom of YouTube’s own transcript panel, and the next download uses it.

When a video has no transcript, the button is greyed out, so you never end up with an empty file.

Who it’s for

Students and researchers quoting lectures, talks and interviews
Video editors who want subtitles as a starting point for their own cut
Writers and journalists turning spoken content into notes
Anyone who would rather read a video than watch it

Features

One button in the action bar below the video, next to Share and Save
SRT subtitles named Title [video id].en.srt, so players such as VLC pick them up next to a downloaded video
WebVTT subtitles for HTML5 and web players
Plain text in readable paragraphs, one per chapter, with chapter titles as headings
Text with timestamps, one line per caption, just like YouTube’s transcript panel
Clean timing: overlapping auto-generated captions are fixed, so players never stack two lines
Fits right in: follows YouTube’s light and dark theme, menu in 9 languages

What it doesn't do

Send anything to a server of ours or anyone else
Include analytics, tracking or an install ping
Require an account, login, sign-up or API key
Limit how many transcripts you save
Run on any website other than youtube.com
Transcribe audio, translate or summarize: it saves the transcript YouTube already has

Permissions

Every permission this extension asks for, and why it needs it.

https://www.youtube.com/*

The only access the extension has, through its content script. It adds the download button below the video and reads the transcript YouTube loads for that video, so it can be saved as a file. No other permissions are requested.

Privacy first

Transcript Download collects nothing. It makes no network requests of its own: the file is built on the page you are watching and goes straight to your downloads. No account, no analytics, no server of ours involved.

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Support

Need help with Transcript Download for YouTube, found a bug, or have a feature request? Get in touch and we'll get back to you.

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