Copying Transcripts from YouTube
Navigate to a YouTube video with subtitles. Go to https://www.youtube.com in a web browser and use the search bar at the top or other options to find a video that has subtitles. To see if a video has subtitles, play the video and click the icon that resembles a box with "CC" in the bottom right corner fo the video playback. If the video has subtitles, you will see them on screen. Most YouTube videos have auto-generated transcripts. However the transcript may not be 100% accurate in some cases.
Click … below the video. It's the icon with three dots below the video playback on the right. This displays a pop-up menu.
Click Open Transcript. It's the second option in the pop-up menu that appears when you click the menu icon below the video. This opens a transcript of the video in a window to the right of the video.
Click ⋮ followed by Toggle Timestamps (Optional). If you don't want the timestamps to appear next to each line of text in the transcript, you can click the icon with three dots above the window with the transcript and to the right. Then click Toggle Timestamps to turn them off.
Open a new text document. Use any text editor of your choice to open a new, blank text document. You can use Notepad, TextEdit, Word, Pages, or any other text editor.
Highlight and copy the entire transcript text. The easiest way to highlight the text is to start from the bottom and go to the top. Drag the slider bar to the right of the transcript box all the way down. Click and drag from bottom to top to highlight the entire transcript.
Copy and paste the transcript. Right-click the highlighted text in the transcript on YouTube. Then click Copy. Then right-click your blank text document and click Paste.
Save the transcript. To save the transcript, click File and click Save as (or Save on Mac). Type a name for the file next to "Filename" and click Save.
Using A Subtitle Downloader
Navigate to a YouTube video with subtitles. Go to https://www.youtube.com in a web browser and use the search bar at the top or other options to find a video that has subtitles. To see if a video has subtitles, play the video and click the icon that resembles a box with "CC" in the bottom right corner of the video playback. If the video has subtitles, you will see them on screen.
Copy the video URL. To copy the video URL, click Share below the video and then click Copy next to the video URL in the box. You can also highlight the URL in the address bar at the top, right-click it and click Copy.
Go to https://savesubs.com/ in a web browser. This is the URL for a web application that can be used to download video transcripts from YouTube videos.
Paste the URL of the video you want to extract subtitles from. To paste the video URL, right-click the box that says "Enter any URL to extract subtitles" and click Paste.
Click Extract & Download. It's the purple button to the side. This extracts the subtitle files from the video.
Scroll down and click SRT or TXT. If you want a Subrip subtitle (.srt) file, click SRT. This will download the file to your Downloads folder on your computer. If you just want the subtitles in plain text, click .txt. Both file formats can be viewed and edited using a text editor such as Notepad, TextEdit, or Word. Subrip Subtitle (.srt) files are subtitle text files that are used alongside video players and video editors to display and embed subtitles in videos. They contain the subtitle text as well as timecodes that indicate the starting and stopping points of each subtitle. They can be viewed and edited using Notepad or a dedicated subtitle editor like Aegisub.
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