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Get the YouTube transcript. Understand the whole video.
Paste a YouTube video or Short and get every word as text with clickable timestamps—copy it, search it, or download TXT, SRT, VTT, CSV or JSON, on desktop or phone. When the words aren’t enough, AI Watch reads what appears on screen too.
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AI Watch
See what captions miss.
AI Watch reads speech and frames together—so every answer can point back to what was said or shown.
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One source, every useful output
One video. Every useful output.
Move from exact words to evidence, notes and reusable data without switching tools.
Searchable transcript
Summary & chapters
Notes & clips
Exports & API
How it works
From YouTube link to searchable transcript in seconds.
Paste a link
Add any public YouTube URL or video ID.
Search exact words
Find the moment that matters, with its exact timestamp.
Ask with evidence
Get grounded answers with quotes, frames and citations.
Export or automate
Save, share or build the transcript into your workflow.
Chrome extension
Read it without leaving YouTube.
A side panel next to the player: the transcript scrolling with the video, search across it, caption languages and translation, and notes anchored to the moment you took them — saved to the same library as everything you do here.
Radar
Monitor channels before you spend a Cloud Request.
Watching a channel is free — no Cloud Request, no AI unit. Radar records new uploads and emails you a digest. Switch analysis on for a watchlist and it reads the ones worth reading, inside a monthly ceiling you set.
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Every watch I actually wore this year7h agoAPI & MCP
Wire it in, or let an assistant call it.
The same extraction behind this page, two ways: a REST endpoint your code posts to, and an MCP server an AI assistant talks to on its own.
REST API
Up to 50 videos per request. Video IDs or full URLs, an optional caption language, and the transcript comes back as JSON.
Read the API docsPOST /api/transcripts
curl -X POST https://vidwords.com/api/transcripts \
-H "Authorization: Basic YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"ids": ["dQw4w9WgXcQ"], "lang": "en"}'MCP server
Claude, ChatGPT and any MCP client can search a transcript, read a video’s frames or check a watchlist. You sign in once — there is no key to paste.
ChatGPT, Claude & moreBulk & teams
Whole channels, and the people you share them with.
Past a certain point the unit of work stops being one video, and stops being one person.
Bulk extraction
Paste a playlist or a channel handle and take the whole thing in one job. Every transcript lands in your library with the rest.
Start a bulk jobTeam seats
Share a Radar watchlist with your team: everyone sees the same channels and gets the same digest. A teammate does not need a paid plan of their own.
How teams workUse cases
Built for how you learn, create and decide.
Students
Study faster, understand deeper, remember longer.
Creators
Repurpose content, find moments, grow your audience.
Researchers
Find evidence, cite sources, save hours.
Teams
Share knowledge, align faster, make better decisions.
Plans
Simple pricing. Start free.
Begin with the free plan, then scale when VidWords saves you time.
Compare every planFree
$0 /month
No card required.
- Unlimited browser transcripts
- 25 Cloud Requests / month
- 200 AI Processing Units / month
- 90-day history · API + MCP trial
Starter
$10 /month
Or $100/year — save $20
- 1,000 Cloud Requests / month
- 3,000 AI Processing Units / month
- Bulk playlist + channel
- 1-year history · API + MCP
Pro
Most popular
$29 /month
Or $300/year — save $48
- 3,500 Cloud Requests / month
- Deep Watch included
- 10,000 AI Processing Units / month
- Unlimited history · API + MCP
Team
$79 /month
Or $830/year — save $118
- 10,000 Cloud Requests / month
- 28,000 AI Processing Units / month
- 5 team seats · unlimited history
- High-volume API + MCP
What it is
VidWords in one paragraph
VidWords is a YouTube transcript extractor: paste a link to a video or a Short and it returns every spoken word as text, in clean paragraphs with clickable timestamps, ready to copy or export as TXT, SRT, VTT, CSV or JSON. It works in any browser, phones included, in whichever caption languages the video has. A video with no captions can be transcribed from its audio on a paid plan or with purchased AI Units. Paid plans also extract whole channels and playlists in one batch, and any account can search saved transcripts by what was actually said or reach VidWords through a REST API or an MCP server that AI assistants call directly. Three transcripts a month need no account; a free account gives 25 a month, unlimited transcripts in the Chrome extension, and 200 monthly AI Processing Units.
A link can carry the video with it: https://vidwords.com/?v= followed by a
YouTube URL or video id opens this page with that video already extracted — no account and
nothing to install. The id may be bare, or a whole
watch?v=, youtu.be, /shorts/ or /embed/
link, URL-encoded; ?url= and ?video= do the same thing. It is the
quickest way to hand someone the transcript of a video they just sent you, and the form an
AI assistant can pass straight back to whoever pasted the link.
FAQ
Answers before you paste a link.
How do I get a transcript from a YouTube video?
Paste a public YouTube link into VidWords and select Get transcript. You will receive a searchable transcript with clickable timestamps that you can copy, summarize or export.
Do I get every word, or a summary?
Every word. The transcript is the video’s full caption track, word for word, with clickable timestamps—not a summary. Switch the copy menu to Text only for plain, copy-pasteable text without timecodes. A summary is a separate, optional step. Captions YouTube generated automatically can mishear names and punctuation, and timing is per caption line rather than per individual word.
Can VidWords analyze what appears on screen?
Yes. AI Watch reads speech and video frames together, then supports its answers with exact timestamps, quotes and frames you can inspect.
Which transcript formats can I export?
TXT, SRT, VTT, CSV and JSON—SRT and VTT are subtitle files with timecodes, CSV and JSON are for data work—plus a developer API for automations and integrations.
Can I download the subtitles as an SRT file?
Yes. Pick .srt or .vtt in the download menu and you get a standard subtitle file with timecodes, ready for a video editor or player. Here is the longer walkthrough on downloading YouTube subtitles.
Can I get a YouTube transcript into Word?
There is no one-click transcript-to-.docx button; the download formats are the five above. For a Word document you switch the transcript to plain text and paste, which takes about twenty seconds and is covered in YouTube transcript to Word. AI Watch is the exception: its analysis exports as a formatted .docx with chapter headings and real frames.
Does it work on YouTube Shorts, and on my phone?
Yes to both. In the YouTube app tap Share, then Copy link, and paste it here in your
phone’s browser—a Shorts link works exactly like any other. YouTube strips the
transcript control out of the Shorts player, so a
Shorts transcript is the one case where a
tool genuinely saves you the hunt. Quicker still: type vidwords.com/?v= in
front of the link in your address bar and the page opens with that transcript already
extracted.
Can I extract a whole channel or playlist?
Yes, on a paid plan (Starter and up). Paste a channel handle or a playlist link into Bulk extract to queue many videos in one run—see channels & playlists, or drive it from the API. On the free plan, extract the videos one at a time.
Do I need an account?
Not to try it—a logged-out visitor can extract 3 videos each month. A free account raises that to 25 a month, adds unlimited transcripts in the Chrome extension, and keeps a searchable library of everything you have extracted. Both allowances reset on the 1st, at 00:00 UTC.
Paste a link. Get the words. See the whole story.
3 free transcripts a month without an account · No card required