YouTube videos + Shorts supported

Free YouTube Transcript Generator
for videos & Shorts

Paste a YouTube video or Short. Get a clean transcript, searchable timestamps, an AI summary, key takeaways, and export-ready text.

Supports public YouTube videos and Shorts · No sign-up required

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See it in action

Paste a YouTube video or Short above and your transcript, summary, timestamps, and key takeaways will appear here.

Features

Everything you need to extract, understand, and reuse video

Built around transcript value first, with smarter reuse tools planned next.

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YouTube Transcript Extraction

Paste a YouTube video link and turn it into searchable text, clean summaries, timestamps, and exportable transcript blocks.

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AI-Powered Cleanup

Raw captions and spoken audio get cleaned into a more readable transcript experience for scanning, studying, and repurposing.

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Smart Summaries + Takeaways

Get the core points fast with cleaner summaries and useful takeaways instead of digging through the full video line by line.

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Video Q&A

Chat with extracted videos, ask follow-up questions, and get answers grounded in transcript context.

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Rewrite + Script Assist

Rewrite transcripts, generate scripts, and adapt content into different formats instantly.

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Trend Discovery

Coming soon: spot repeated themes, formats, and ideas across short-form and long-form videos to find patterns worth using.

How it works

From video link to reusable content in four steps

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Paste Your Link

Paste a YouTube video URL and ViralTranscript prepares it for transcript extraction.

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Extract + Clean

The app pulls transcript data when available or transcribes the audio when needed, then turns it into cleaner, readable blocks.

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Review the Output

Scan the transcript, search exact moments, review the summary and key takeaways, and check the detected transcript languages.

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Reuse the Content

Copy, download, study, research, and repurpose the transcript now — with video chat, rewriting, and script tools planned next.

Use cases

Built for people who learn from video and turn it into action

Turn video inspiration into better content faster

✦Extract creator videos into clean written references
✦Find reusable ideas without copy-pasting the original script
✦Use summaries and takeaways to plan your own angle faster
✦Get ready for upcoming rewrite and script-generation workflows

Free access

Free video transcripts, no signup needed

ViralTranscript is now a free tool supported by ads and protected by fair-use rate limits.

Free

$0 forever

Paste a video link and get transcripts, summaries, takeaways, search, and exports.

  • ✓ Free YouTube transcript extraction
  • ✓ YouTube videos and Shorts support
  • ✓ Searchable transcript blocks
  • ✓ Summary and key takeaways
  • ✓ TXT + SRT export
  • ✓ Fair-use limits to prevent spam
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Turn your next video into
content you can actually use.

Extract the transcript, review the summary, search exact moments, and build from there — with deeper AI reuse tools coming next.

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