YouTube subtitle downloader
This YouTube subtitle downloader gets a video's captions from its link, as SRT, VTT or plain text, ready to edit or reuse.
Most YouTube videos have captions, so their transcripts come back in seconds and use none of your minutes.
Paste a YouTube link and get its subtitles as an SRT file you can edit, translate or load into a video editor. If the video has captions in its own language, you get those, in seconds and without using any of your daily minutes. Automatic captions count, as long as they're in the original language. A video with no captions at all still gets subtitles, which take longer and use your free daily minutes.
Questions
How do I download YouTube subtitles as SRT?
Paste the video link above, then download SRT when the captions are ready; it's the first format offered. If the video has captions, they're ready in seconds.
Can I choose the caption language?
No. You get the captions in the video's original language, and YouTube's machine-translated tracks aren't offered. To read it in English or another language, use translate YouTube video.
What if the video has no captions?
You still get subtitles of what's said. They take longer and use your free daily minutes, one per minute of audio, and the meter on the page shows what's left.
Can I edit the subtitles afterwards?
Yes. Every tool on this site takes the SRT: shift the timing, clean it up or convert it to VTT.
I downloaded captions from YouTube Studio as .vtt or .sbv. Can I convert them?
Yes. VTT to SRT and SBV to SRT turn either one into an SRT, and nothing is uploaded.