Transcribe a YouTube Short
Paste a YouTube Shorts link and read its captions as clean, timestamped text in seconds.
Accepts a public YouTube Shorts link · returns a clean, timestamped transcript you can read and export.
Works on public YouTube Shorts by reading their captions – Pepys is a captions tool, not a video downloader, and never saves the video or audio. If a Short has no captions, upload your own clip to transcribe its audio instead.
60 min free · no card required · we never train on your audio
How do I get the transcript of a YouTube Short?
To transcribe a YouTube Short, paste the Shorts link into Pepys and it returns the captions as clean, timestamped text in seconds, in 99+ languages, with an AI summary built in. Copy any quote, search the words, or export it. No signup is needed to try it, and your first 60 minutes are free.
How youtube shorts transcript works
Paste the Shorts link
Copy a public YouTube Short's URL and paste it in – nothing to install.
Get the transcript
Pepys pulls the Short's captions into clean, timestamped text in seconds.
Read, copy, or export
Read the full text, copy any line, edit inline, or export to TXT, SRT, or VTT.
Shorts pack a lot of words into a few seconds, and the autoplay loop makes them hard to read or quote. Paste a link and Pepys gives you the caption text as a clean transcript in seconds – so you can grab the hook, lift an exact quote for a script or post, or just read it instead of replaying the clip ten times.
It works in 99+ languages and includes an AI summary, handy when you're mining a feed of Shorts for ideas or research. Free to try with no signup; your first 60 minutes are free, and credits never expire.
Clean paragraphs. No more um's and ah's.
The left is what Pepys hands back – logical paragraphs with the filler stripped out, punctuated and readable. The right is the raw, one-line-per-segment dump most transcribers leave you with.
um so yeah everyone keeps telling you to like lead with your best line right but uh honestly if you give away the whole answer in the first second you know there's basically no reason for anyone to keep watching so the hook isn't kind of the smartest thing you say it's like a loop you open that they need to close and um that's the part that actually keeps people around
RawPaste a link – read the Short instead of replaying the loop
Captions-first, so it's fast – grab the hook or an exact quote in seconds
AI summary built in – pull the idea out of a Short for notes or a script
99+ languages, auto-detected · pay as you go, credits never expire
Any language – 99+ detected automatically
- English
- 中文
- Español
- العربية
- हिन्दी
- Français
- 日本語
- Português
- Русский
- Deutsch
- 한국어
- Italiano
- বাংলা
- Türkçe
- فارسی
- Tiếng Việt
- தமிழ்
- Polski
- ไทย
- Українська
- Nederlands
- עברית
- Ελληνικά
- తెలుగు
- Bahasa Indonesia
- اردو
- Svenska
- मराठी
- Română
- Magyar
- Čeština
- ગુજરાતી
- Kiswahili
- ქართული
- Tagalog
- አማርኛ
Works with the platforms you live in.
Paste a link from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts – or drop in any audio or video file. We transcribe it once, then you export it however your workflow needs.
- YouTube
- TikTok
- Spotify
- Apple Podcasts
- or any file
Export to any format
- TXT
- Markdown
- DOCX
- SRT
- VTT
- JSON
Timestamps, speaker labels, and subtitle timing carry through to every export.
Youtube shorts transcript – questions, answered
How do I get the transcript of a YouTube Short?
Paste the public Shorts link on this page and Pepys returns the captions as a clean, timestamped transcript in seconds. No signup is needed to try it.
Is it free?
You can try it with no signup, and your first 60 minutes are free with a free account – no card required. After that it's pay-as-you-go and credits never expire.
Does this download the Short?
No. Pepys reads the Short's captions and gives you the text – it never downloads or saves the video or audio.
What if the Short has no captions?
Many Shorts ship without captions. If a public Short has none, there's no caption text to read – but if it's your own clip, upload the file and Pepys will transcribe the audio directly.
Can I export it as subtitles?
Yes – export the transcript as an SRT or VTT subtitle file with correct timestamps.
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