YouTube Transcript Downloader - Extract Video Captions in Multiple Formats
About This Tool
The YouTube Transcript Downloader is a free, powerful web application designed to help content creators, researchers, students, and professionals extract and download YouTube video transcripts quickly and easily. This advanced tool allows you to download captions in multiple formats including plain text, SRT subtitles, WebVTT, and JSON with full timestamp data.
Key Features
- Multiple Export Formats: Download transcripts as TXT (plain text), SRT (SubRip subtitles), VTT (WebVTT), or JSON (structured data with timestamps)
- 16+ Language Support: Extract transcripts in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, and more
- Auto-Generated Caption Support: Works with both creator-uploaded captions and YouTube's auto-generated transcripts
- Instant Statistics: View word count and estimated reading time for any transcript
- Preview Mode: Preview transcript content before downloading
- Copy to Clipboard: Quickly copy full transcript text with one click
Who Uses This Tool?
- Content Creators
- Repurpose video content into blog posts, articles, social media content, and written guides. Extract your own video transcripts for content recycling.
- Researchers & Academics
- Analyze video content for research purposes, create citations from video sources, and study linguistic patterns in YouTube content.
- Students & Educators
- Create study notes from educational videos, generate lecture transcripts, and improve accessibility of video-based learning materials.
- Accessibility Advocates
- Improve content accessibility by extracting captions for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers, create text alternatives for video content.
- SEO Professionals
- Extract video transcripts to create SEO-optimized blog content, improve video discoverability, and generate text-based versions of video content.
- Translators
- Download transcripts as a base for translation work, create multilingual subtitles, and localize video content for global audiences.
Supported Download Formats
TXT (Plain Text): Simple text format perfect for reading, editing, and repurposing content. Ideal for blog posts and articles.
SRT (SubRip): Industry-standard subtitle format with timestamps. Compatible with most video players and editing software.
VTT (WebVTT): Web Video Text Tracks format designed for HTML5 video. Perfect for web developers and online video platforms.
JSON (Structured Data): Machine-readable format with full metadata and timestamps. Ideal for developers and data analysis.
Language Support
Our transcript downloader supports 16+ languages with automatic language detection. Available languages include: English, Spanish (Español), French (Français), German (Deutsch), Portuguese (Português), Italian (Italiano), Dutch (Nederlands), Russian (Русский), Japanese (日本語), Korean (한국어), Chinese (中文), Arabic (العربية), Hindi (हिंदी), Turkish (Türkçe), Polish (Polski), and Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt).
Why Use Our Transcript Downloader?
- Completely free with no registration required
- No download limits or usage restrictions
- Fast, responsive interface with instant results
- Privacy-focused - we don't store your downloaded transcripts
- Mobile-friendly design for downloading on any device
- Support for both manual and auto-generated captions
- Clean, formatted output ready for immediate use
Common Use Cases
Popular uses include: converting YouTube videos to text, creating blog posts from video content, generating study notes from lectures, extracting podcast transcripts, creating accessible content for hearing-impaired viewers, translating video content, analyzing video speeches and presentations, archiving video content in text format, and generating subtitles for video editing.
