The same call, from your code.
The tool makes one call to youtube.transcript. Run the same request from your code, or give it to your agent. The response is JSON with the text and its timed segments.
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Free tool
Free YouTubeTranscript Generator
Paste a YouTube link. The tool returns the video's captions as text, one line per caption with its start time.
Free. No account. No API key.
How it works.
Paste a link
Paste the address of a public YouTube video.
Get the transcript
The tool calls youtube.transcript. The API returns the captions as text, with a start time for each line.
Copy or download
Copy text copies the words. Download saves a .txt file with one timestamped line per caption.
What people use it for.
Summarize a long video
Read a one-hour talk in a few minutes. Or give the text to a model and ask for the main points.
Quote the exact moment
Each line has a start time. Use it to link a quote to the second it is spoken.
Find a moment in a video
Search the text for a word or a name. Use the timestamp to open that part of the video.
When you need more.
- Use the APISend a POST request with a Bearer key. Every endpoint returns success, data, creditsUsed and requestId.
- Use MCPAdd https://api.stophy.dev/mcp to Claude, Cursor or Codex. The agent finds an endpoint and calls it.
- Use the SDKInstall the TypeScript or Python client. Call an endpoint by its id, such as youtube.transcript.
- Use the CLICall an endpoint from the terminal. The CLI prints JSON, so you can pipe the result into a script.
Questions and answers.
Yes. The tool calls an endpoint that needs no API key and no card. A free daily limit applies across all tools.
Videos that have captions, including the captions that YouTube generates. A video without captions returns an error that says so.
Yes. Each line starts with the time the words are spoken. Download keeps the timestamps. Copy text copies the words without them.
The tool reads the captions that YouTube already has, so the length of the video does not matter. In our test, a talk of 1 hour and 1 minute returned 10,309 words.
Yes. Send POST /v1/youtube/transcript with videoUrl and includeTimestamps: true. The response has success, data, creditsUsed and requestId, and data holds text and a segments list with startSeconds, endSeconds and text. With an API key, tiktok.transcript and instagram.transcript return the same fields.
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