# TubeTranscript

> TubeTranscript turns any YouTube video into clean text in seconds — even videos without captions — and plugs into ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor via API and MCP.

## Pricing and quotas
- Guest (no account): 10 transcripts per 24 hours, of which up to 5 may use AI (Whisper) transcription for videos without captions.
- Free account: 24 transcripts per 24 hours.
- Free and guest transcripts are published to the public library.
- Pro ($9/month): up to 1,000 requests per 24 hours under fair use, private transcripts, REST API and MCP access. Audio transcription handles videos up to 2 hours.
- Details: [Pricing](https://tubetranscript.io/pricing)

## Transcript tools
- [YouTube transcript generator](https://tubetranscript.io/)
- [YouTube to text](https://tubetranscript.io/youtube-to-text)
- [Transcript without captions](https://tubetranscript.io/youtube-transcript-no-captions)
- [Transcript for ChatGPT](https://tubetranscript.io/youtube-transcript-for-chatgpt)
- [Transcript for Claude](https://tubetranscript.io/youtube-transcript-for-claude)
- [YouTube Shorts transcript](https://tubetranscript.io/youtube-shorts-transcript)
- [Timestamp remover](https://tubetranscript.io/tools/remove-timestamps-from-transcript)
- [Transcript splitter for ChatGPT](https://tubetranscript.io/tools/transcript-splitter)
- [Filler word remover](https://tubetranscript.io/tools/remove-filler-words)
- [YouTube transcript API](https://tubetranscript.io/youtube-transcript-api)
- [Chrome extension](https://tubetranscript.io/chrome-extension)

## Creator tools
- [Chapter generator](https://tubetranscript.io/youtube-chapter-generator)
- [Description & tags generator](https://tubetranscript.io/youtube-description-generator)
- [Show notes & X thread](https://tubetranscript.io/youtube-to-blog-post)
- [Shorts moment finder](https://tubetranscript.io/youtube-shorts-moment-finder)
- [Hook analyzer](https://tubetranscript.io/youtube-hook-analyzer)
- [Translate SRT](https://tubetranscript.io/translate-srt)
- [Bulk transcript downloader](https://tubetranscript.io/youtube-bulk-transcript-downloader)
- [Transcript search](https://tubetranscript.io/youtube-transcript-search)

## Subtitle tools
- [YouTube subtitle downloader](https://tubetranscript.io/youtube-subtitle-downloader)
- [YouTube to SRT](https://tubetranscript.io/youtube-to-srt)
- [YouTube to VTT](https://tubetranscript.io/youtube-to-vtt)
- [SRT to VTT converter](https://tubetranscript.io/tools/srt-to-vtt)
- [VTT to SRT converter](https://tubetranscript.io/tools/vtt-to-srt)
- [SRT to text converter](https://tubetranscript.io/tools/srt-to-text)
- [SRT quality checker](https://tubetranscript.io/tools/srt-checker)
- [SRT merge, split & shift](https://tubetranscript.io/tools/srt-editor)
- [YouTube chapters validator](https://tubetranscript.io/tools/youtube-chapters-validator)

## Compare
- [vs YouTube "Show transcript"](https://tubetranscript.io/vs/youtube-built-in-transcript)

## Chrome extension
- [Tube Transcript for Chrome](https://tubetranscript.io/chrome-extension): free extension that shows a YouTube video's transcript in a sidebar next to the player, to read, search, highlight with notes and export (TXT, SRT, VTT, JSON). Needs captions on the video; desktop Chrome only.
- No account. Highlights, notes and settings stay in the browser; the extension does not contact tubetranscript.io. Its permissions are storage and www.youtube.com. [Extension privacy policy](https://tubetranscript.io/privacy#extension)

## Developers
- [Quickstart](https://tubetranscript.io/docs/quickstart.md)
- [YouTube transcript API](https://tubetranscript.io/youtube-transcript-api): what the REST API returns, code samples, limits and errors, in one page
- [REST API reference](https://tubetranscript.io/docs/api.md): POST /api/v1/extract
- [MCP setup](https://tubetranscript.io/docs/mcp.md): get_transcript for Claude Code, Cursor and Windsurf
- [Passing transcript JSON to an LLM](https://tubetranscript.io/docs/prompts.md)
- [Security and rate limits](https://tubetranscript.io/docs/security.md)

## More
- [All documentation in one file](https://tubetranscript.io/llms-full.txt)
- [Public transcript library](https://tubetranscript.io/transcripts)
- [Guides](https://tubetranscript.io/guides)
- [Changelog](https://tubetranscript.io/changelog.md)