Paste a link, then hit .txt, .srt, or .md — the transcript downloads instantly. SRT keeps full subtitle timing; TXT and Markdown give you clean paragraph text.
.txt — plain paragraphs, best for reading, quoting, or pasting anywhere. .srt — standard subtitle format with millisecond timing, drop it into video editors or players. .md — Markdown with the video title as a heading, ready for notes apps like Obsidian or Notion.
TranscribeFast uses the captions YouTube already has for the video — auto-generated or uploaded by the creator — so most transcripts are ready in seconds, not minutes. Once a video has been fetched, it loads instantly for everyone.
Yes. Getting a transcript is free, with no ads and no account. Bulk access for developers is coming as a paid API.
No. TranscribeFast reads the captions YouTube stores for the video. If a video has no captions at all (common for music videos), there is nothing to fetch. Videos with auto-generated captions work fine.
Every language the video has captions in. If a video has several caption tracks, use the language switcher above the transcript.
Yes. Toggle "show timestamps" to see the start time of every line. Each timestamp links to that moment in the video. The SRT export keeps full timing.
Press "copy for ChatGPT". It copies the transcript with a ready-made summary prompt — paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, or any AI assistant.
Yes. Paste any Shorts URL and it resolves like a normal video.