Get the transcript of any YouTube video, or of a whole playlist, in any format, and have a summary, key points, chapters or a blog draft written on your own device. Free, no account.
+ Add to Chrome — FreeA small Transcript button appears on every YouTube video and Short. Click it and the full transcript is read straight from YouTube's own transcript panel: no separate website, no pasting links.
Pick Full transcript, Video summary, Key points and takeaways, Draft blog post or Timestamp chapters. Then download it in the format that suits it (text, clean paragraphs, SRT or VTT subtitles, Markdown with time links or split by chapter or for Obsidian and Notion, JSON, CSV), copy it, or copy it for ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
The summary, key points, blog draft and chapters are written by Chrome's own built-in AI on your device, so the transcript is not sent anywhere. The first run loads the model and can take a minute; a bar and a clock show progress and Stop ends it. Needs Chrome 138 or newer and a capable device; if yours cannot, Copy for AI still works.
Read the transcript beside the video (click a time to jump, the current line stays marked), search with highlights, ask a question and get an answer from the closest lines, with their times, and translate it into 15 languages. All on your device.
Save lines as quotes with a link to the moment and use them as a timestamped comment you post yourself, as chapters for your own video, or as notes. Keep videos in a searchable library in your browser, and export for Obsidian, Notion or NotebookLM.
On a playlist, Watch Later or a channel's Videos tab, press All transcripts: it walks the list in your own tab, about six to ten seconds a video. Download one file, a .json or a zip with one file per video, and search a phrase across everything collected. Up to 100 a run, stop any time, retry the ones that did not load.
The extension reads the transcript YouTube already renders for you. It sends nothing about the video or the text anywhere; the transcript goes to your clipboard or your downloads folder.
Any video with captions: regular uploads, Shorts, auto-generated or creator-uploaded caption tracks.
Read exactly what is sent, and what is not
It works on any video that has captions — which is most of YouTube, because YouTube auto-generates captions for the majority of uploads. If the uploader has disabled captions entirely, there is no transcript to read and the extension says so honestly.
Creator-uploaded captions are exact wording with real punctuation. Auto-generated ones are YouTube's speech recognition — very good, but brand names and jargon are sometimes mis-transcribed. The extension gives you whichever track the video has.
Free, no account. Bulk mode collects up to 100 videos a run. It is built by VideoCore as a genuinely useful tool.
Copy gives the lines as YouTube shows them. Paragraphs joins them into clean paragraphs with no timestamps, which reads better in a document or an AI chat.
The summary, key points, blog draft, chapters, Ask and Translate use Chrome's own built-in AI, which runs on your device: nothing is sent to us or to anyone. It needs Chrome 138 or newer and a device that can run it (the first use downloads Chrome's model, which can take a minute or more). If yours cannot, the panel says so and Copy for AI puts the transcript and a ready prompt on your clipboard for ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
Copy for AI puts the transcript and a task prompt on your clipboard in one click, so ChatGPT or Claude can break down its pacing, hooks and structure. To choose which videos are worth that, the free Outlier Finder lists the ones that beat their own channel's usual views.
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