Get the transcript of a YouTube video

1. Copy the video's link from YouTube. Links in the youtube.com/watch?v=, youtu.be/, /embed/ and /v/ forms all work.
2. Paste it into the box above (or the one in the site header).
3. If the video is in the library, its transcript opens straight away. If not, sign up free and request it; the transcript is built from the video's YouTube captions.
4. Read it beside the video, or press Copy transcript above the transcript. On a phone it's in the ⋯ menu next to the transcript.

The copied text is Markdown: the title, channel, a link back to YouTube and to the transcript page, the duration, a chapter list with start times, and then the transcript with a timestamp at the start of each paragraph. It pastes cleanly into notes apps, documents and AI assistants.

# Game Theory #1: The Dating Game

**Channel:** Predictive History
**Source:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4l9WyLF3U
**Transcript page:** https://www.withtranscript.ai/video/hE4l9WyLF3U

## Chapters

- 0:00 — …

## Transcript

**[0:01] Speaker A:** …

More detail on the format: transcripts with timestamps and pasting into Notion, Obsidian or Google Docs.

It does, for videos with captions: open the description and click Show transcript. That panel is fine for finding a line. WithTranscript adds chapters (usually with a short summary each), a transcript you can read at full width while the video plays, and a one-click copy of the whole text with timestamps. The comparison is laid out in how to get a YouTube transcript.

What WithTranscript does not do, so you don't have to find out the hard way:

• No SRT, VTT or TXT subtitle files. You get Markdown: copied to the clipboard, or as a .md page you can save.
• No playlists or whole channels in one go. Transcripts are one video at a time.
• YouTube only. No TikTok, Instagram, Vimeo or uploaded files.
• No translation. The transcript is in the language the video's captions are in.