YouTube transcript to SRT

An SRT file is the most common subtitle format in the world: numbered blocks of text, each with a start and end time. Video editors, media players, and subtitle tools all read it. If you have a YouTube transcript, you are one step from an SRT — the timestamps are already in the captions.

How to download an SRT from a YouTube video

1. Copy the link of a public YouTube video that has captions.
2. Paste it into the tool on the CapSnag home page and press Get transcript.
3. Press Download .srt. You get a standard SRT file built from the video's own caption timings.

Who needs the SRT

• Video editors — bring a video's own words back in as editable subtitles in Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut, or CapCut.
• Creators re-uploading elsewhere — carry subtitles to another platform without retyping them.
• Translators — translate the text blocks while the timings stay put.
• Anyone archiving a talk — a timestamped text copy that stays in sync with the recording.

Worth knowing

• The timings come from the captions. Creator-uploaded captions are usually tight. Auto-generated captions can drift slightly at sentence edges.
• SRT has no styling. No fonts, colours, or positioning — just text and times. That is why everything supports it.
• Prefer reading over syncing? Download the .txt instead — the same transcript as clean sentences, without the timecodes. See how to get a YouTube transcript for all the options.
• No captions, no SRT. If the video has no caption track, there is nothing to convert.