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Three ways to turn a YouTube video into text. All of them are free and none of them needs an account.
Web converter
Paste a YouTube link and read the transcript in the browser. Copy it or download TXT, SRT or VTT.
REST API
One GET request returns the transcript as JSON, TXT, SRT or VTT. No API key, open CORS.
MCP server
Add one URL to Claude, Cursor or ChatGPT and let your AI read YouTube videos.
Quick start
REST
curl "https://youtubetextconverter.com/api/public/v1/transcript?url=dQw4w9WgXcQ&format=txt"MCP
https://youtubetextconverter.com/api/mcpGood to know
- Only public videos with subtitles can be read, manual or auto generated.
- Results are cached for ten minutes per video, so repeated calls are fast.
- Language codes come from YouTube. Auto tracks end with -auto, for example en-auto.
- Everything runs on our server, so you never need a YouTube login.