Free tool
YouTube Transcript Downloader
Turn a video's spoken content into text you can skim, quote, or feed into a thumbnail brief.
This tool cannot fetch transcripts yet
Unlike the other three free tools, transcript extraction genuinely cannot run in your browser. YouTube's caption endpoints send no Access-Control-Allow-Origin header, so the browser's same-origin policy blocks the request before it ever leaves this page. It needs a server to make the request on your behalf, and this build has no backend transcript service connected.
Rather than showing a fake spinner and inventing a transcript, the tool tells you the truth: no transcript will be returned until the transcript service is wired up. The form below is the real interface it will use.