About Get YouTube Text

Why I built this

I watch a lot of YouTube to learn — lectures, tutorials, long podcasts, product talks. The problem is that video is slow to search and awkward to quote. I kept doing the same tedious dance: pausing every few seconds, scrubbing back to catch a sentence, and copying messy captions that came glued to timestamps.

Most “transcript” sites I tried made it worse — sign-up walls, credit limits, cluttered pages, or output I still had to clean up by hand. I wanted something that did one thing well: paste a link, get clean text instantly, and actually be able to use it. So I built it. Everything here is free and runs without an account, because that is the version of this tool I always wished existed.

It has since grown into a small toolkit — a set of focused YouTube tools, transcript pages in several languages, format converters, and a blog with guides — but the goal is the same: get you from a video to text with as little friction as possible.

Who’s behind it

My name is Mukund Kapoor. I work in growth and content, and I build small products on the side — things like a distraction-free writing app and a few browser tools — usually to scratch my own itch. Get YouTube Text is one of those side projects that turned into something I use every day.

You can learn more about me and my other work at mukundkapoor.com, or find me on X and LinkedIn.

What you can do here

Beyond the main transcript tool, Get YouTube Text lets you download transcripts as TXT, SRT, VTT, CSV, JSON, or Markdown, read along with a synced player, search inside a transcript, and share a public link with anyone. A few of the most-used tools:

• YouTube to SRT — download properly timed subtitle files.
• YouTube to PDF — save a clean, printable transcript.
• YouTube to Markdown — export to Markdown for notes and AI tools.
• Subtitle Downloader and the full tools hub.

Get in touch

Have feedback, a bug, or a feature idea? I’d genuinely like to hear it — reach out any time on the contact page.