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How CapMyVideo works
1
Paste your YouTube link
Enter the URL of the video you want to transcribe.
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Get the transcript instantly
We'll fetch the captions and format them as readable text.
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Copy or download
Copy the transcript to your clipboard or download it as a text file.
Why use a YouTube transcript?
Save time
Read instead of watching.
Improve accessibility
Make content more inclusive.
Create content
Use transcripts for notes, blogs and more.
Research
Search and reference video content as text.
What can I do with a transcript?
Find a quote
Search long videos quickly to find a specific statement or section.
Make notes
Turn video content into notes for research, study or work.
Research a long video
Read and search the content instead of watching the entire video.
Frequently asked questions
A transcript is a text version of the spoken content in a YouTube video. It's generated from the video's captions or subtitles.
CapMyVideo can retrieve transcripts for any YouTube video that has captions available. If a video doesn't have captions enabled, we won't be able to fetch a transcript.
No. CapMyVideo is completely free and requires no sign-up or account.
We do not maintain a permanent database of submitted YouTube URLs or generated transcript content. Limited technical information may temporarily appear in operational or security logs.
Yes. After retrieving a transcript you can copy it to your clipboard or download it as a plain text file.
Some YouTube videos don't have captions enabled. The video creator needs to add captions (or enable auto-generated captions) for a transcript to be available.