Free YouTube
transcript extractor

Yes — free, with no account and no card. Guests get 2 transcripts a day, a free account raises that to 5, and an hourly cap on top of both keeps automated scrapers out without normal use ever noticing it. You can transcribe a YouTube video to text, read it, search it, and download it as .txt or .srt without signing up.

Paste the video link, wait for the transcript, then open the download menu above the text and choose .txt. You can download it with or without timestamps. Choose .srt instead if you need subtitle timings — that file is built from the original caption cues, so it stays in sync.

Any language YouTube has captions for. That includes English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, and Ukrainian, among many others. If a video has several caption tracks, pick the one you want from the language selector above the transcript.

Yes — sign in and Saido writes the summary from the transcript, in the language you pick before it runs. A free account includes 2 AI actions a day, and an existing summary opens again for free. Prefer to do it in a chatbot? Take the transcript to ChatGPT or Claude with one of our ready-made prompts .

Yes. Paste the full Shorts URL and it works exactly like a normal video. Live replays work too, as long as YouTube has finished generating captions for them — that can take a few minutes after a stream ends.

No. This runs in the browser, on any device, with nothing to install. We do not have a Chrome extension and do not need one — a browser extension would need permission to read the pages you visit, and a paste box does not.

Not yet — that's on the roadmap via audio transcription in the iPhone app. Get the app

Not yet — one video at a time. Bulk extraction for playlists and channels is a real request we keep hearing, and it is on the list. If it would change how you work, tell us and it moves up.

A transcript is what was actually said, word for word, with timestamps. A script is what was written before filming. Saido gives you the transcript — the real spoken words, including the parts nobody planned.

YouTube shows raw caption cues — two-second fragments, no export, no search. Saido merges those cues into readable paragraphs, makes every timestamp clickable, adds full-text search, and lets you download the result as .txt or .srt.

We read the captions YouTube already publishes and cache the finished transcript by video ID for up to 30 days, so the next person opening the same video gets it instantly. As a guest, the link you paste isn't tied to you. If you sign in, the videos you open are saved to your account so you can find them again — and you can remove any of them, or delete the account, at any time. Privacy policy

The transcript belongs to the video's owner. Respect their rights when you reuse it.

Yes, and it's a daily one: 2 transcripts a day as a guest, 5 with a free account, plus 2 AI actions a day once you sign in. Reopening a video you already opened today doesn't count again, and the hourly cap above never gets in the way of normal use.