YouTube Transcript Downloader

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The Infinity YouTube Transcript Downloader turns a video's captions into readable text — every line with its timestamp — and lets you copy it or save it as a TXT or SRT file.

Works with watch, youtu.be, Shorts, embed and live links.

How the Transcript Downloader works

The Infinity YouTube Transcript Downloader reads the captions YouTube has for a video: the subtitles the creator uploaded, or the ones YouTube generates automatically from the speech. It lists every line with the time it's spoken, so you can scan the text, jump to that moment on YouTube, copy the whole transcript, or save it as plain text (TXT) or as a subtitle file (SRT). Videos without captions have no transcript.

Example: paste the link to a 10-minute talk with English captions, and the transcript lists each line with its start time, like “2:15 Today I want to talk about…”. In the SRT file, the same line becomes a numbered subtitle with a start and end time (00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:18,400).

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a YouTube transcript?

A YouTube transcript is the text of everything said in a video, taken from its captions. Captions come in two kinds: subtitles the creator uploaded, and captions YouTube generates automatically from the speech. The Infinity YouTube Transcript Downloader shows that text line by line, each line with the time it's spoken.

Why doesn't a video have a transcript?

A transcript needs captions, and not every video has them. The creator may not have uploaded any or may have turned captions off. YouTube's automatic captions can also be missing, for example when the language isn't supported, the sound quality is poor, or the video is very new and still being processed.

How accurate are auto-generated transcripts?

They're usually good but not perfect. YouTube creates them with speech recognition, and YouTube notes they can misrepresent what's said because of mispronunciations, accents, dialects or background noise. YouTube encourages creators to review automatic captions and fix mistakes, so captions a creator has uploaded or edited are usually more reliable. The tool shows which kind you're getting.

What's the difference between TXT and SRT?

TXT is plain text you can read, edit or paste anywhere. SRT is a subtitle file: each line gets a number, a start and end time (for example 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:18,400) and its text. Video players like VLC, most video editors and YouTube Studio can load it as subtitles.

Can I get the transcript in another language?

Yes, if the video has captions in more than one language: pick the one you want before you download. If a video only has captions in one language, that's the only transcript available.

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