YouTube to SRT
Paste a YouTube link and download its captions as a clean, timestamped .srt subtitle file.
Accepts a public YouTube video link · returns a downloadable .srt subtitle file with timestamps.
Works on public YouTube videos by reading their captions – Pepys is a captions tool, not a video downloader, and never saves the video or audio. To make an SRT for a video you own, upload the file instead.
60 min free · no card required · we never train on your audio
How do I get an SRT file from a YouTube video?
To get a YouTube SRT, paste the video link into Pepys and it returns the captions as timestamped lines you can download as an .srt file in seconds, in 99+ languages. Edit any line first, then load it into your editor. Pepys reads captions and never saves the video. No signup needed to try it; first 60 minutes free.
How youtube to srt works
Paste the YouTube link
Copy a public YouTube video URL and paste it in – nothing to install.
Get the caption text
Pepys pulls the video's captions into clean, timestamped subtitle lines in seconds.
Download the .srt
Edit any line if you need to, then export a ready-to-use SRT subtitle file.
SRT is the subtitle format every editor and platform understands, but getting one out of a YouTube video usually means a sketchy download site or a manual copy-paste job. Paste a link and Pepys hands you the captions already formatted as timestamped SRT lines, ready to download and drop into Premiere, DaVinci, CapCut, or any player that reads subtitles.
Timestamps line up, the lines are editable, and it works across 99+ languages. Free to try with no signup; your first 60 minutes are free, you pay only for what you process, 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
RawClean, standards-compliant .srt that loads into any editor or player
Timestamps that line up – ready to use, no reformatting
Edit any subtitle line inline before you download
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 to srt – questions, answered
How do I get an SRT file from a YouTube video?
Paste the public YouTube link on this page and Pepys returns the captions as timestamped lines you can download as an .srt file. 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 video?
No. Pepys reads the video's captions and gives you the SRT text – it never downloads or saves the video or audio.
Can I get the SRT in another language?
Yes – captions come in the video's spoken language across 99+ languages, and you can translate the transcript before exporting your .srt.
Can I also export VTT?
Yes – alongside SRT you can export the same captions as a VTT file, or the plain text as TXT.
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