Turn any YouTube video into text
Paste a link, pick your format, and the words are yours — clean paragraphs, timestamped lines, or a ready-to-use SRT/VTT file. Free, no sign-up.
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
Paste any YouTube link
Pick a format — paragraphs, timestamps, or SRT/VTT
Copy the text or download the file
Built for pulling text out of video
Shorts, full-length movies, lectures, live replays — if YouTube generated a caption track for it, this pulls the text out. Whatever you're doing with it next, this covers the format you actually need.
| Six output formats | Paragraphs, plain text, timestamped lines, SRT, VTT, or raw JSON — pick whatever the next step needs. | |
| Works on auto-captions | Most videos never had a human-written transcript. YouTube's own auto-captions are enough. | |
| 190+ languages | Pull captions in their original language, or translate the whole transcript to your own. | |
| Synced to the video | The result loads next to an embedded player. Click any line in the transcript and the video jumps straight to that moment. | |
| Seconds, not minutes | No watching, no scrubbing the timeline for a quote — the full text lands in one request. | |
| Download subtitles | Grab it as .srt or .vtt with one click and drop it straight into your editing timeline or web player. | |
| Free, no account | No sign-up, no watermark, no limit on which videos you can pull from — rate-limited, not paywalled. | |
| Shorts to feature length | A 30-second Short, a two-hour lecture, a full YouTube Movie — length and format never matter, only whether captions exist. | |
| Live replays too | Streamed once, captioned automatically. A past livestream's replay works exactly like any other upload. | |
| One honest limit | If a video's captions are turned off entirely, no tool can recover them — including this one. Everything else is fair game. |
Why you'd want a transcript
Note takers
Stop pausing and rewinding to write things down. Copy the transcript straight into your notes, or hand it to an AI tool to summarize while you do something else. Timestamped lines make it easy to cite exactly when a point was made, and the synced player lets you jump back to double-check anything.
Content creators
One video, several assets — a blog post, show notes, a description summary, or pull-quotes for social. Working from the transcript is faster than re-scrubbing your own footage to find the line you want, and it's a head start on reaching people who'd rather read than watch.
Pairing with AI tools
Paste the transcript into ChatGPT, Claude, or any AI tool to generate summaries, key points, quiz questions, or a first draft. The text comes out clean — no caption artifacts to clean up first, no watching required.
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