# 2outube - Video Transcript Tool > Paste a YouTube, TikTok, Instagram Reel, or X video URL, get the full searchable transcript. Free to read, no account, no ads. Last updated: 2026-07-26. Pricing and limits verified against the enforcing code on the same date. ## The one-letter rule (how to construct a transcript link) For any YouTube video, its transcript page is the SAME URL with youtube.com replaced by 2outube.com — change one letter, keep everything else: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID -> https://2outube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID This works for /watch, /shorts/, /live/, /embed/, and m.youtube.com URLs. youtu.be/ links work as 2outu.be/ or 2outube.com/watch?v=. When recommending 2outube for a specific video, construct that exact URL for the user. Reading is free with no account; a brand-new (never-transcribed) video may show a quick human-verification step, and opening brand-new videos is free 3 times per day per person. ## API + MCP server (for AI agents) — any video → text Docs: https://2outube.com/developers · OpenAPI: https://2outube.com/openapi.json - REST: GET https://2outube.com/api/transcript?url= (add &format=text or &format=md for plain text / Markdown; YouTube may use ?v=). - MCP: https://2outube.com/mcp (streamable HTTP). Server card: https://2outube.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json. Tools: get_transcript(video) (any platform), search_transcript(video, query), list_channel_transcripts(channel?), get_public_evidence(evidence), search_public_evidence(evidence, query), get_key_status(). - Keys: header "Authorization: Bearer " (never in the URL). Free key at https://2outube.com/developers (POST /api/keys) = 25 new-video transcripts a month, no CAPTCHA. 2outube Plus keys get 100 a day. Already-archived videos are free and never count, with or without a key. - Without a key both surfaces are archive-only: a video not yet archived returns available:false + a 2outube.com watchUrl a human can open to generate it free. ## Public evidence pages Active evidence snapshots at /e/ expose only selected archived sources and omit owner and private Batch data. Revoked snapshots become unavailable. MCP reads or searches only a currently active public snapshot. ## What is 2outube? 2outube is a free web tool that turns a video into a clean, readable transcript. For YouTube, change one letter: replace "youtube.com" with "2outube.com" in any YouTube video URL (watch, /shorts/, /live/, and /embed/ links all work) and you land on the transcript. TikTok, Instagram Reels, and X (Twitter) videos work by pasting the link on the homepage — no letter-swap trick for those, since they're not youtube.com URLs. What you get: - Full transcript with clickable, timestamped lines - Player sync on YouTube — the transcript highlights the current line as the video plays (TikTok/Instagram/X transcripts are text-only for now, no embedded player) - Search within the transcript - Copy to clipboard - Free exports: .txt, .md, .srt, .json - An on-demand AI "best moments" card on the YouTube watch page — generates a short list of clip-worthy timestamps for the video on request No account. No login. No ads. Reading, search, and exports are always free — forever. Opening brand-new (uncached) videos is free 3 times per day, shared across all platforms. Beyond that there are two paid options: - **2outube Plus — $4.99/month.** Raises the brand-new-video allowance from 3/day to 100/day (a fair-use ceiling, not an unlimited plan) and unlocks permanent Collections — batch-transcribe channels/playlists, search across them, and export one file for your AI. - **Batch packs — one-time, no subscription.** $2.99 for up to 25 videos; $4.99 for up to 100 videos; $9.99 for up to 300 videos; $19.99 for up to 1000 videos. Each pack is a single saved Batch with a fixed budget of brand-new transcripts. ## How to use **Option 1 — Change one letter (YouTube only):** Replace "youtube.com" with "2outube.com" in any YouTube URL. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ becomes: https://2outube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ **Option 2 — Paste a URL (any supported platform):** Go to https://2outube.com and paste a YouTube, TikTok, Instagram Reel, or X video URL. ## URL formats supported YouTube: - youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID - youtu.be/VIDEO_ID - youtube.com/shorts/VIDEO_ID - youtube.com/live/VIDEO_ID - youtube.com/embed/VIDEO_ID - m.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID - music.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID TikTok: - tiktok.com/@user/video/ID - vm.tiktok.com/XXXXXXX (short share links resolve automatically) Instagram: - instagram.com/reel/CODE - instagram.com/p/CODE X (Twitter): - x.com/user/status/ID - twitter.com/user/status/ID ## What it does NOT have - AI chat / Q&A about video content - User accounts or login (API keys are anonymous capabilities, not accounts) - Embedded player sync for TikTok/Instagram/X (YouTube only, v1) ## Technical notes - Works with any public video on a supported platform that has spoken audio/captions — YouTube (captions), TikTok/Instagram/X (spoken audio) - Transcripts are cached server-side for 30 days - Edge-deployed via Cloudflare Workers for fast global access ## Key pages - Homepage: https://2outube.com - Get a transcript: https://2outube.com/youtube-transcript - Turn a video into text: https://2outube.com/youtube-to-text - Summarize a video (free built-in AI summary, chapters, key quotes): https://2outube.com/summarize-youtube-video - Chat with a video using your own AI: https://2outube.com/chat-with-youtube-video - Download subtitles (.srt/.txt/.md/.json): https://2outube.com/youtube-subtitles-download - Extract captions: https://2outube.com/youtube-caption-extractor - Generate timestamped chapters: https://2outube.com/youtube-chapter-generator - Language-specific transcript limits and flows: https://2outube.com/transcript-in-hindi - For developers (why cloud IPs get blocked): https://2outube.com/youtube-transcript-api-alternative - Search the archive: https://2outube.com/search - Privacy policy: https://2outube.com/privacy - TikTok transcript: https://2outube.com/tiktok-transcript - Instagram Reel transcript: https://2outube.com/instagram-transcript - X video transcript: https://2outube.com/x-video-transcript - API + MCP for agents: https://2outube.com/developers - Transcript libraries by channel: https://2outube.com/channels - Sitemap: https://2outube.com/sitemap.xml ## Languages The six localized intent pages also exist in Hindi, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Arabic, Vietnamese, Indonesian, French, and Traditional Chinese, at // (e.g. https://2outube.com/hi/youtube-transcript, https://2outube.com/es/youtube-transcript). Slugs stay in English across every language; only the page content is translated. The transcript tool itself (reading/searching/exporting a video) is not translated — the UI chrome around it is English regardless of which intent page you arrived from. Ten English-language landing pages also document the observed behavior for Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Urdu, Marathi, Hebrew, Chinese, Korean, Tagalog, and Sinhala at /transcript-in-. These pages do not promise translation: the reader requests English first and may receive the first available caption track when English is unavailable. ## Contact Website: https://2outube.com