Which YouTube transcript tool
Pick by job. A caption file, a translation, a summary, and a live meeting are not the same product.
Need the caption track YouTube already stored, as a file? That's this site. Paste a URL. No account. Five an hour. TXT, SRT, VTT, or JSON.
Need a new language, a summary today, a live meeting, or words from a video with no captions? Use the tool that does that job.
By job
- Caption file. tube2text. Paste a URL. No account. Five an hour. Captions only.
- Translation. YouTubetoTranscript. Homepage: 125+ languages. FAQ: copy only, no download.
- No stored transcript. NoteGPT. Their page: videos without transcripts generated using NoteGPT's AI.
- AI summary today. NoteGPT or youtube-transcript.io. tube2text: Coming soon.
- Live meeting. Tactiq. Chrome extension for Meet, Zoom, Teams, Webex. Not a YouTube caption fetch.
- HTTP API today. youtube-transcript.io. YouTubetoTranscript points to transcriptapi.com. tube2text: Coming soon.
- Uncapped copy. YouTubetoTranscript. FAQ: free, no limit on number or length, copy instead of download.
What we are
- Live. Paste a URL. Five an hour. No account. TXT, SRT, VTT, JSON. Captions only.
- Coming soon. HTTP API, SDK, CLI, AI summary.
- Not this. No translation, no speech-to-text, no extension, no bulk.
FAQ
What are the best YouTube transcript tools?
It depends on the job. File, translation, summary, meetings, and videos with no captions are different products. This page is a chooser, not a ranked list.
Does tube2text have an API?
Coming soon. Same for the SDK and CLI. Not live today.
Does tube2text translate?
No. You get the caption language YouTube stored. YouTubetoTranscript's homepage offers 125+ languages.
Does tube2text work for videos with no captions?
No. We read YouTube's caption track. NoteGPT's page says it can generate text when none exists.
Paste a link. Get the transcript.
Free, five an hour, no account.