# YouTube transcript generator

> Paste the link. If the video carries captions, YouTube's own or automatic, you get them at once, free, with timestamps, as TXT, SRT or VTT. A video with none is written down by a speech model: three a day free, then 3 credits a minute.

Source: https://clipscript.app/youtube-transcript · Updated: 2026-10-31 · Publisher: ClipScript

## Paste a YouTube link

Paste a public video link; the audio is fetched and written down as text with timestamps, exported as TXT, SRT or VTT.

## How do you get the transcript of a YouTube video?

Paste the video's link above. The server reads the captions the video already carries, YouTube's own or its automatic ones, and shows them as text with timestamps; that is free and does not count against anything. A video with no captions at all is sent to Whisper large v3 turbo instead: three such runs a day are free for videos up to 3 minutes, then 3 credits a minute, up to 10 minutes. Private and members-only videos cannot be read.

- **With captions:** Free, unlimited, instant
- **Without captions:** 3 free a day, then 3 credits a minute
- **Exports:** TXT, timed TXT, SRT, VTT
- **Not read:** Private and members-only videos

## How to get a YouTube transcript

1. **Copy the link** From the address bar or the Share button: youtube.com/watch?v=…, youtu.be/… and Shorts links all work. The video must be public or unlisted.
2. **Paste it and choose the language** Leave the language on automatic to take the video's own captions; pick a language to prefer that caption track when the video has several.
3. **Copy or download** Read the text with or without timestamps, copy it, or download .txt, .srt or .vtt. The timestamps are YouTube's own cue times.

## What is free and what costs credits

| Spec | Value | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Video with captions | Free, no limit (The text is YouTube's caption track, human-made or automatic, with its cue times. No model runs.) | [Pricing](https://clipscript.app/pricing) |
| Video without captions | 3 free a day, then 3 credits a minute (Transcribed by Whisper large v3 turbo. Free runs up to 3 minutes; paid runs up to 10.) | [Pricing](https://clipscript.app/pricing) |
| Automatic captions | Taken as YouTube made them (YouTube's automatic captions carry YouTube's errors; we do not correct them. For a cleaner text of a video that has only automatic captions, nothing here re-transcribes it yet.) |  |
| Longest video | 10 minutes without captions (With captions there is no length limit; a two-hour video's captions come back whole.) |  |

Last checked: 2026-10-29

## YouTube transcript questions

### Is this YouTube transcript generator free?

Yes for any video that carries captions, which is most of them: the text comes from the caption track, there is no limit and no account. Only a video with no captions at all is sent to the speech model, and that costs 3 credits a minute after three free runs a day.

### Does it work on videos without captions?

Yes: the audio is transcribed by Whisper large v3 turbo, up to 10 minutes. For a longer video with no captions, use a tool built for long transcription.

### Are automatic captions accurate?

They are YouTube's automatic captions, taken as they are; YouTube's own help pages say their quality varies with audio and accents. We have not measured them. Read the text against the video before you publish it.

### Can I get the transcript in another language?

If the video carries a caption track in that language, pick it in the language menu. Translation is not offered yet; paste the text into a translator.

### Can it find the moments worth clipping?

Yes: under the transcript, Clip moments (2 credits) lists stretches of 15 to 60 seconds that work on their own, best first, each with start and end times snapped to whole sentences and its opening line quoted from the transcript. It does not download or cut the video. Cut the clip in your own editor, and only from a video you own or have permission to use, such as a creator's own clipping programme.

### Can I use someone else's transcript?

The words stay the creator's. Transcripts here are for reading, study, notes and quoting with attribution; copying a whole video's script into your own is not what this is for.

### Is ClipScript affiliated with YouTube?

No. ClipScript is an independent tool and reads only public videos.

## Get a YouTube transcript

Paste a public YouTube link. Captions come back free.

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