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Turn any YouTube video into readable, searchable text — with timestamps, copy, download and translation. This page is the preview; Get Video opens the working transcript tool on lynote.ai.
This page does not download or process video. Get Video takes you to the transcript tool on lynote.ai, where the work actually happens.
A transcript is the spoken content of a video written out as text, usually line by line with timestamps. YouTube already stores this for videos that have captions: auto-generated ones for most uploads, and hand-made ones where the creator supplied them. A transcript generator reads that text and gives it back to you in a form you can search, quote, translate or paste into a document.
A 40-minute talk takes four minutes to skim. Search inside the text for the one number you need instead of scrubbing the timeline.
Copying what someone said out of a video is error-prone by ear. A timestamped transcript lets you quote precisely and link back to the moment.
If a video has captions in another language, the transcript gives you the original text to translate rather than re-listening sentence by sentence.
Blog posts, study notes, meeting records and subtitles all start from the same raw text.
| Reader | Typical job |
|---|---|
| Content creators | Turn a video into a blog draft or show notes. |
| Students | Take notes from lectures without pausing every 20 seconds. |
| Video editors | Find the exact phrase and timestamp to cut on. |
| Language learners | Read along with the audio, then translate the text. |
| Researchers | Code and quote interview footage or conference talks. |
| SEO specialists | Repurpose video content into indexable pages. |
Yes. The transcript tool on lynote.ai is free to use and needs no account. This page is only the preview, so nothing here is metered.
Fetching a transcript means calling YouTube's caption endpoints from a server, which a static page cannot do. The working tool lives on lynote.ai; this page exists to show what it does.
No. Paste the link and generate the transcript. There is no registration step.
The text comes from YouTube's own captions. If the uploader disabled captions, or the video has none, there is nothing to extract. Check whether a CC button appears on the player first.
Any language the video carries captions for. Auto-generated captions exist for many languages, and the tool can translate the extracted text afterwards.
Yes. Each line comes back with its start time, so you can jump to the moment in the video.
Yes — copy it to the clipboard, or download it as a text file.
Long videos such as podcasts and lectures are supported. Playlists are handled in the Playlist tab, which processes the videos one after another rather than all at once.
This preview page collects nothing: the tabs and the paste button run entirely in your browser, and no video link is sent anywhere until you click Get Video. From that point the request is handled by lynote.ai under its own privacy policy.