Paste the link below, or replace youtube.com with 2outube.com in the address bar of any YouTube video — either way, you land on the full transcript in seconds.
Full transcript in seconds — searchable, timestamped, yours to keep.
2outube reads the captions a video already has on YouTube and lays them out as a clean, searchable transcript — timestamped, synced to the player, and free to copy or download.
It works on any public YouTube video that has captions or subtitles, whether they were uploaded by the creator or generated automatically by YouTube. Videos with captions turned off have nothing for us to fetch, so there’s no transcript to show.
There’s no account, no paywall, and no limit on normal reading — paste a link and read.
Yes — completely. No account, no paid tier, no limits for normal reading.
Replace "youtube.com" with "2outube.com" in any YouTube URL and press Enter. You land on the same video with its full transcript beside it — works with youtu.be, shorts, and mobile links too.
It works on any video that has captions or subtitles on YouTube, which is most of them. Videos with captions disabled have nothing for us to fetch.
YouTube’s own transcript panel works when it’s there, but it’s easy to miss, isn’t as easy to search, and gives you no downloadable file. 2outube shows the same underlying captions on a dedicated page you can search, copy, or export.
Yes — plain text (.txt), Markdown (.md), subtitles (.srt), or structured JSON. All free, straight from the transcript page.