Readable, not raw
Raw captions arrive as chopped-up lines. CapSnag re-flows them into proper sentences, so you can actually read the thing.
Paste a YouTube link.
Get the transcript.
CapSnag is a free YouTube transcript generator. It pulls the video's own captions and cleans them into readable sentences you can search, copy, or download. No account.
- Free
- No account
- Nothing stored
- .txt + .srt downloads
Search inside the video
Looking for one moment in a two-hour video? Search the transcript, see every match, and click a sentence to jump the player to it.
Copy, .txt, or .srt
Take the transcript the way you need it: copied text for notes, a .txt file for documents, or an .srt subtitle file with timestamps.
Private by design
No sign-up, no history, no saved fetches. The transcript goes from the video's captions straight to your screen.
How it works
- 1Paste the link.
Any public YouTube video — a lecture, a podcast, an interview, a tutorial. - 2CapSnag fetches the captions.
The video's own caption track, cleaned into sentences with timestamps kept. - 3Read, search, download.
Skim it in the page, find the quote you need, or save it as .txt or .srt.
Sample output
0:00In this video, I'll be doing a full master course on how to build your own trading bot with Claude.
0:03And by the end of this video, you guys are going to go from basically zero, so no coding knowledge and no strategy to a fully automated trading bot just like this one with Claude.
0:13It studies how each asset moves, finds strategies that fit each one, tests them properly, and adds AI analysis as an extra layer.
Real output from How To Actually Build an AI Trading Bot With Claude (3 Hour Course) on YouTube.
Who it's for
- Students and researchersTurn lectures and talks into notes you can search and cite.
- Writers and journalistsPull exact quotes from interviews and press conferences.
- CreatorsRepurpose your own videos into posts, descriptions, and subtitles.
- Language learnersRead along with real speech, at your pace.
Guides
Questions
Is CapSnag free?
Yes. Fetching a transcript is free and needs no account.
Which videos work?
Any public YouTube video that has captions — either uploaded by the creator or generated automatically by YouTube. If a video has no captions at all, there is no transcript to fetch.
Can I download the transcript?
Yes. Every transcript can be copied, downloaded as a plain .txt file, or downloaded as an .srt subtitle file with timestamps.
Is anything I fetch stored?
No. The transcript is fetched and shown to you; nothing you fetch is stored.
Why did a fetch fail?
Usually because the video has no captions, is private, or YouTube briefly refused the request. Waiting a minute and trying again often fixes the last one.
Do auto-generated captions work?
Yes. If a video's only captions are YouTube's auto-generated ones, CapSnag fetches those. Auto captions can have mistakes, especially with names and technical terms, because no human has checked them.
Can I pick the caption language?
When a video has captions in more than one language, a language menu appears above the transcript. Pick the track you want and CapSnag fetches that one.