Free YouTube Transcript Generator
Generate the transcript from a public YouTube video or Short. Paste a URL and copy the spoken text. No signup or API key required.
CreatorCrawl returns a clean plain-text transcript for individual lookups. Developers can use the API for timestamped segments, language selection, bulk processing, and AI workflows.
How It Works
Paste the URL
Copy any YouTube video or Shorts URL from the browser or mobile app and paste it above.
Extract transcript
Click the button. The tool fetches the video captions and returns the full plain-text transcript.
Copy and use
Copy the transcript for summarisation, repurposing, SEO research, RAG pipelines, or any downstream workflow.
What You Can Do With YouTube Transcripts
Content Repurposing
Turn a single YouTube video into a blog post, newsletter, Twitter thread, or LinkedIn carousel in minutes.
LLM Summarisation and RAG
Feed transcripts into GPT-4, Claude, or your embedding pipeline to summarise, chunk, or retrieve long-form video content.
SEO and Keyword Research
Extract topics and phrases from high-ranking videos in your niche to inform your own content strategy.
Frequently Asked Questions
Need Bulk YouTube Transcripts?
The CreatorCrawl API lets you extract transcripts programmatically across thousands of videos. Structured JSON, timestamped segments, and 60+ other endpoints across six social platforms. Start with 50 free credits, no card.