TubeTranscript turns any YouTube video into a clean transcript. Paste a link to copy readable text without timestamps, or download it as TXT, SRT, VTT or timed JSON.
When a video has captions, TubeTranscript uses them and tidies them into timed paragraphs. When it has none, it transcribes the audio with speech recognition, so you still get a transcript where caption-only tools show an error.
Made for creators repurposing their videos, researchers and students who need to find a moment in a long video, and developers feeding video into AI workflows:
- Copy for ChatGPT or Claude with the title, link and a starter prompt
- Free creator tools: chapters, descriptions and tags, Shorts moments, hook analysis, SRT translation
- REST API and MCP server for Claude, Cursor, n8n and Make (Pro)
- Free Chrome extension that shows the transcript next to the video
Free: 5 transcripts a day without an account, 15 with a free account (free transcripts are public). Pro is $4.99/month for private transcripts, up to 100 a day and API/MCP access.