Cite any YouTube video in seconds
Paste a link and get it formatted in APA, MLA, Chicago, and Harvard style — built from the video's own title and channel. Free, no sign-up.
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Built for learning on your own. UpSolo makes tools around video transcripts so anyone can study, review and understand what they watch. The words belong to the video's creator. How you use a transcript, or anything made from it, is up to you: please respect the creator's rights and the platform's terms. UpSolo isn't responsible for how the output is used.
Three steps, no setup
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Paste any YouTube link
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Add the published date, if you know it
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Copy the style your paper needs
Built for citing video sources
A lecture, a documentary, an interview clip — if it's on YouTube, this gets it into your reference list in the format your paper needs.
| All four styles at once | APA, MLA, Chicago (author-date), and Harvard — generated together so you never have to run the tool twice. | |
| Pulled from the video itself | Title and channel come straight from YouTube — no retyping, no risk of a typo in the author's name. | |
| One click to copy | Each citation has its own Copy button, ready to paste straight into your bibliography or reference list. | |
| Built for coursework | Citing a lecture, documentary, or interview clip for a paper or presentation is exactly what this is for. | |
| Honest about the published date | YouTube doesn't expose a video's publish date over its API — add it yourself if you have it, or every style falls back to the standard "n.d." (no date) convention. | |
| Free, no account | No sign-up, no watermark — rate-limited, not paywalled. |
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