YouTube Transcript Generator
Paste a YouTube link and read the video's captions as clean, timestamped text in seconds.
Accepts a public YouTube video link · returns a clean, timestamped transcript you can read and export.
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 transcribe a recording you own, upload the file instead.
60 min free · no card required · we never train on your audio
How do I get the transcript of a YouTube video?
To get a YouTube transcript, paste the video link into Pepys and it returns the captions as clean, timestamped text in seconds, in 99+ languages, with an AI summary built in. Read or skim instead of watching, copy any passage, and export it. No signup is needed to try it, and your first 60 minutes are free.
How youtube transcript works
Paste the YouTube link
Copy a public YouTube video URL and paste it in – nothing to install.
Get the transcript
Pepys pulls the video's captions into clean, timestamped text in seconds.
Read, copy, or export
Skim the full text, copy any passage, edit inline, or export to TXT, SRT, or VTT.
Reading a YouTube video is faster than watching it. Paste a link and Pepys gives you the captions as a clean, timestamped transcript in seconds – so you can skim a 40-minute talk, jump to the part you need, and pull exact quotes for notes, research, or an article without scrubbing the timeline.
It works in 99+ languages and ships with an AI summary built in, so one lecture or interview becomes study notes, a recap, or a quote bank. 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 captions instead of sitting through the video
Captions-first, so it's fast and accurate – every line is timestamped, so you can cite or jump to the part you need in the transcript
AI summary built in – turn a long video into notes, a recap, or a quote bank
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 transcript – questions, answered
How do I get the transcript of a YouTube video?
Paste the public YouTube video 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 video?
No. Pepys reads the video's captions and gives you the text – it never downloads or saves the video or audio.
What if the video has no captions?
If a public video has no captions available, there's no caption text to read. For your own recordings, upload the file and Pepys will transcribe the audio directly.
Can I get subtitles (SRT/VTT)?
Yes – export the transcript as an SRT or VTT subtitle file with correct timestamps.
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