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Video research tool

YouTube Transcript Extractor

Paste any YouTube URL or video ID and Crawlora's free transcript extractor returns the spoken text with timestamps — ready to read, search, summarize, or feed to an LLM. No browser extension, no copy-pasting from the player, and the same endpoint is available for batch jobs when you need it.

Run the tool Open endpoint

Built on Crawlora endpoints

GET/youtube/transcript/{id}
GET/youtube/transcript/{id}/languages
Try it

Run a capped public sample.

Use this when a video is useful but you need searchable text, timestamps, or reusable research notes.

Public samples are rate limited. Create an API key for production volume, retries, and full response payloads.

Results

Example output before you run the tool

TimeTranscript text
00:00Intro and topic setup
00:18Main explanation starts
01:04Example and takeaway
How it works

From seed input to structured data in four steps.

01

Paste a URL or video ID

Drop in a full watch URL, a share link, or just the 11-character video ID. Crawlora resolves it to the right video automatically.

02

Run the free sample

Get a capped, timestamped slice of the transcript instantly, with no login or API key.

03

Read, copy, or export

Scan the timestamped lines, copy the JSON, or download CSV for notes, summaries, and research.

04

Scale with the API

Call /youtube/transcript/{id} from your own code to pull full transcripts and available languages across many videos.

Use cases

Where this is useful.

AI summaries

Feed clean transcript text to an LLM to produce summaries, chapter markers, and key-point lists without watching the full video.

Research notes

Turn long talks, lectures, and interviews into searchable, citable text you can quote and reference.

Content repurposing

Convert a video into blog drafts, social threads, and newsletters by starting from the exact words spoken.

Knowledge bases

Index support and training videos as text so answers are searchable alongside your docs.

Research

Why this page can attract traffic.

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FAQ

Common questions.

Yes — the on-page extractor is free, capped, and needs no account. Full transcripts at volume use the documented endpoint with an API key.
It works for videos that have captions available (creator-uploaded or auto-generated). Use the languages endpoint to see which caption tracks a video exposes.
Yes. Each line includes its start time so you can jump back to the moment, build chapter notes, or align summaries to the video.
Crawlora returns whatever caption languages the video publishes. The /youtube/transcript/{id}/languages endpoint lists them so you can request a specific track.
Yes — that's a primary use case. The endpoint returns clean JSON you can chunk and embed for summaries, search, and retrieval-augmented generation.
No. The tool runs in the page with no extension and no key. An API key is only for automating extraction in your own product or pipeline.
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Production path

Turn this free workflow into an API call.

Public tools are intentionally capped. Use the documented endpoint for API keys, full response payloads, usage tracking, retries, and backend integration.

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