YouTube to text
Any YouTube video → text. Fast (we use the existing captions), clean, with export.
Use skribr on every video
Free Chrome extension — on every YouTube video.
How to convert a YouTube video to text
Paste any YouTube link into the box above and press Convert. We read the video's existing caption track and return clean, readable text in seconds — nothing to install and nothing to configure. The whole YouTube-to-text conversion runs online in your browser, so it works the same on Windows, Mac, a phone or a Chromebook.
Free, online, and no sign-up
This is a free YouTube-to-text converter: paste a link, copy the text, done. There's no account to create for the basic conversion and no watermark on the output. When you want more — one-click copy, Markdown export, or context built for an AI agent — it's one tap away, but turning a YouTube video into plain text is free.
Accurate text, pulled from captions
Instead of slowly re-transcribing the audio, we fetch the video's original captions and clean them up — removing timestamps, line-break noise and duplicate lines — so you get a tidy paragraph instead of a wall of subtitle fragments. Most YouTube videos already have captions, so the result is near-instant; when a video has none, we can transcribe the audio instead.
Any language, export anywhere
We grab the original caption track, so you can turn videos into text in dozens of languages and optionally return the text in another language. Copy it straight into ChatGPT, Claude or Cursor, paste it into Notion or Obsidian, or export clean Markdown with a Title/Channel/URL header for your notes.
FAQ
How fast is it?
Seconds — we read the video's existing captions instead of slow re-transcription, and repeat videos are served instantly from cache.
Do I need an account?
No. The basic video-to-text conversion works with no sign-up.
Which languages are supported?
Many — we fetch the original caption track and can return the text in other languages too.