A YouTube transcript extractor for videos up to 120 minutes and for Shorts: paste the link, get the words.
Our YouTube transcript generator reads the audio of a video and writes down what is said, line by line, with the time each line starts. It works on a full-length upload and on a Short alike. Skim an hour-long interview in a few minutes, find the exact moment a guest made a claim, or keep the script of a Short that outperformed the rest of a channel.
You need the video's link and nothing else: no YouTube login and no browser extension.
Here is a real result: the opening of one of the example Shorts above, as ViralDrop transcribed it. Nothing has been edited.
[00:00] There are three things in life that you need to accept about other people. [00:05] When you accept these things, your life gets so much easier. [00:09] So rule number one, if they wanted to, if they could, they would.
From 3 truths in life you need to accept, the first 16 seconds.
The first two lines are the whole promise of the video, and the third starts delivering on it. On a long video the same timestamps work as a table of contents you did not have to write.
Shorts use the same box and the same mode. Copy the Short's link, from the Share button or the address bar, and paste it at the top of this page. You get the spoken words of the Short with a timestamp on every line, just as for a long video. Because a Short runs three minutes at most, it always falls in the first pricing block, and the transcript is ready in seconds. Run an analysis on the same link when you want to know why the Short took off, not only what was said in it. To keep the Short itself as a file, download the YouTube Short as an MP4.
Built for people who study videos, not only for people who need subtitles.
Paste a video of up to 120 minutes and get the complete transcript in one run, not a page at a time.
Save the transcript as a timed SRT or VTT subtitle file, or copy the plain text into your notes, a doc or a brief.
The words come from the audio, so a video without captions, or with poor automatic ones, still gets a transcript.
Paste the public link. Your Google account stays out of it, and there is nothing to install.
If a video is private, deleted or cannot be fetched, the credits return to your balance automatically.
For a Short, run an analysis on the same link to see the hook, the structure and the call to action.
People who get more from reading a video than from watching it twice.
Search a lecture or an interview for the passage you need, then quote it with its timestamp as a source.
Turn a webinar, a podcast episode or a product video into a blog post, a newsletter and social captions.
Read the script of a competitor's best Short, see how it opens, and write a stronger first line for yours.
A transcript is charged by the length of the video, which matters on YouTube, where videos run long. Analysis and rewrite are for Shorts and other videos up to three minutes. On a long video, summarizing the YouTube video adds a two-sentence gist and timestamped key points above the transcript.
Copy the video's link from the Share button, paste it into the YouTube transcript generator at the top of this page and press the button. The spoken words arrive as timestamped text you can copy or download.
Your first transcripts are. A new account comes with free welcome credits, and a video under 10 minutes costs 2 credits. After that, plans start at $9 a month.
No. The public link is all the tool needs, and it runs in any browser on desktop or mobile. You sign in to ViralDrop only, so your credits and past transcripts stay with you.
Yes. ViralDrop transcribes the audio itself and does not read YouTube's captions, so a video without them works. It does need speech: a music-only video has nothing to transcribe.
No. The video must be one anyone can open. A private, deleted or region-blocked video cannot be fetched, and if a run fails, its credits go back to your balance automatically.
Yes. Copy the text with or without timestamps, or download SRT or VTT subtitles. Both subtitle formats keep the timings from the transcript, ready for a captions tool or a video editor.
A transcript costs 2 credits for each started 10 minutes of video, up to 120 minutes. A Short costs 2 credits; a longer video costs more by the same rule.
A transcript is the text of what was said. An analysis costs 5 credits, works on videos up to three minutes and adds the hook, the structure, key frames and why the video performed.
Copy the transcript into any document or notes app and edit it there. Choose the copy without timestamps when you want clean paragraphs, or with them when you need to find moments again.
Up to 120 minutes. Anything that long comes back as one complete transcript, so you can read a full interview or lecture without watching it end to end.
Paste a video or a Shorts link at the top of this page.