Tubio Free YouTube transcript Downloader

Tracking since Apr 1, 2026.

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• May 16, 2026
  description

  One click. Pick your format. Download.
    Works on single videos, playlists, channels, and even videos playing inside a playlist. No copy-pasting, no third-party websites, no hassle.
  
    🎯 WHAT TUBIO DOES
  
    Tubio is a YouTube transcript downloader that lives in your browser's side panel. Navigate to any YouTube video, playlist, or channel, open Tubio, and download transcripts instantly in five
    professional formats.
  
    📄 5 EXPORT FORMATS
  
    • TXT — Clean plain text with optional [HH:MM:SS] timestamps
    • JSON — Structured data with full metadata for developers
    • CSV — Spreadsheet-ready, RFC 4180 compliant
    • SRT — Professional subtitle format with millisecond precision
    • VTT — WebVTT subtitle format for web players
  
    Bulk SRT and VTT downloads are automatically packaged as a ZIP with individually numbered files.
  
    🎚️  ADJUSTABLE CHUNK SIZE
  
    Control how transcript segments are grouped before download. YouTube's default chunks are about 5 seconds each. Tubio lets you merge them into larger blocks — 10s, 15s, 30s, 1 minute, 2
    minutes, or 5 minutes — so you get clean, readable paragraphs instead of short caption fragments. The live preview updates as you adjust.
  
    📦 BULK DOWNLOAD — UP TO 800 VIDEOS
  
    Download transcripts from entire playlists and channels automatically. Tubio scrolls through the page, extracts every video, and processes them one by one.
  
    • Up to 800 videos per session
    • Smart rate limiting that mimics human browsing
    • 3 automatic retries per failed video
    • Pause, resume, or cancel anytime
    • Real-time progress bar with ETA
    • Failed video tracking with retry option
    • Resume interrupted downloads after browser restart
  
    🎬 WORKS ON ALL YOUTUBE PAGE TYPES
  
    • Single videos (youtube.com/watch?v=...)
    • YouTube Shorts (youtube.com/shorts/...)
    • Playlists (youtube.com/playlist?list=...)
    • Videos playing inside a playlist (watch + list URL)
    • Channel video pages (youtube.com/@channel/videos)
  
    ⚡ YOUTUBE-NATIVE BUTTON
  
    Tubio injects a Transcript button directly into YouTube's action bar — right next to Like, Share, and Download. Click it to download the transcript instantly using your saved settings. A
    three-dot menu opens the full side panel. On Shorts, a round button appears above the Like button.
  
    🔒 BUILT FOR PRIVACY
  
    • No data leaves your browser — all extraction happens locally
    • No server-side scraping or third-party API calls
    • Your YouTube session stays private
    • Transcripts are never uploaded anywhere
  
    🚀 HOW IT WORKS
  
    1. Go to any YouTube video, playlist, or channel
    2. Click the Tubio icon to open the side panel
    3. Pick your format (TXT, JSON, CSV, SRT, or VTT)
    4. Adjust chunk size if you want larger text blocks
    5. Click Download
  
    For playlists and channels, Tubio handles everything automatically — just click and wait.
  
    💡 PERFECT FOR
  
    • Students creating study notes from lectures
    • Researchers extracting data from interviews
    • Content creators repurposing video content
    • Journalists archiving source material
    • Developers building datasets from video transcripts
    • Anyone who needs text from YouTube videos
  
    Have feedback, a bug report, or a feature request? Leave a review — we read every one.

  Download YouTube transcripts in one click. Pick your format. Save to your computer.
  
    Works on single videos, playlists, channels, and videos playing inside a playlist. No copy-pasting, no
    third-party websites, no shady screen scrapers — Tubio extracts captions directly from YouTube's own data and
     saves them locally.
  
  
    🎯 WHAT TUBIO DOES
  
    Tubio is a YouTube transcript downloader and subtitle extractor that lives in your browser's side panel.
    Navigate to any YouTube video, playlist, or channel, open Tubio, and download captions instantly in five
    professional formats.
  
  
    📄 5 EXPORT FORMATS
  
    • TXT — Clean plain text with optional [HH:MM:SS] timestamps
    • JSON — Structured data with full metadata for developers, scripts, and pipelines
    • CSV — Spreadsheet-ready, RFC 4180 compliant
    • SRT — Professional subtitle file format with millisecond precision
    • VTT — WebVTT subtitle format for web video players
  
    Bulk SRT and VTT downloads are automatically packaged as a ZIP with individually numbered files, ready for
    video editors and subtitle workflows.
  
  
    🎚️ ADJUSTABLE CHUNK SIZE
  
    Control how transcript segments are grouped before download. YouTube's default captions arrive in 5-second
    chunks. Tubio lets you merge them into larger, readable blocks — 10s, 15s, 30s, 1 minute, 2 minutes, or 5
    minutes — so you get clean paragraphs instead of short caption fragments. The live preview updates as you
    adjust.
  
  
    📦 BULK DOWNLOAD — UP TO 800 VIDEOS
  
    Download transcripts from entire playlists and channels automatically. Tubio scrolls through the page,
    extracts every video ID, and processes them one by one with human-like pacing.
  
    • Up to 800 videos per bulk session
    • Smart rate limiting that mimics human browsing
    • 3 automatic retries per failed video
    • Pause, resume, or cancel anytime
    • Real-time progress bar with ETA
    • Failed-video tracking with one-click retry
    • Resume interrupted bulk jobs after browser restart — transcripts persist in IndexedDB so you never lose
    work
  
  
    🎬 WORKS ON ALL YOUTUBE PAGE TYPES
  
    • Single videos (youtube.com/watch?v=...)
    • YouTube Shorts (youtube.com/shorts/...)
    • Playlist pages (youtube.com/playlist?list=...)
    • Videos playing inside a playlist (watch + list URL)
    • Channel video pages (youtube.com/@channel/videos)
  
  
    🌍 28 LANGUAGES SUPPORTED
  
    Tubio understands YouTube's transcript panel in 28 languages, including English, Spanish, French, German,
    Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Arabic, Russian, Simplified Chinese,
    Traditional Chinese, Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamese, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Czech, Hungarian,
    Greek, Hebrew, and Ukrainian. Both manually authored subtitles and auto-generated captions are supported,
    with manual tracks preferred when available.
  
  
    ⚡ YOUTUBE-NATIVE BUTTON
  
    Tubio injects a Transcript button directly into YouTube's action bar — right next to Like, Share, and
    Download. Click it to download the transcript instantly using your saved settings. A three-dot menu button
    next to it opens the full side panel. On Shorts, a round Tubio button appears above the Like button for
    one-tap downloads.
  
  
    🔒 BUILT FOR PRIVACY
  
    • No transcript data leaves your browser — all extraction happens locally
    • No server-side scraping, no third-party API calls for captions
    • Your YouTube session stays private
    • Transcripts are never uploaded anywhere — they're written directly to your computer
  
  
    🚀 HOW IT WORKS
  
    1. Go to any YouTube video, playlist, or channel
    2. Click the Tubio icon to open the side panel
    3. Pick your format (TXT, JSON, CSV, SRT, or VTT)
    4. Adjust chunk size if you want larger text blocks
    5. Click Download
  
    For playlists and channels, Tubio handles everything automatically — just click Extract and wait.
  
  
    💡 PERFECT FOR
  
    • Students creating study notes from lectures and online courses
    • Researchers extracting data from interviews and panel discussions
    • Content creators repurposing video into blog posts, captions, and clips
    • Journalists archiving source material with timestamped quotes
    • Developers building datasets from YouTube content for AI, NLP, or analytics
    • Translators working with multi-language subtitle files
    • Podcasters who post episodes on YouTube and need text versions
    • Anyone who needs text from YouTube videos at scale
  
  
    Have feedback, a bug report, or a feature request? Leave a review — we read every one.

• May 16, 2026
  name

  Tubio — Ultimate YouTube Transcript Downloader

  Tubio Free YouTube transcript Downloader

• May 11, 2026
  category

  productivity/workflow

  productivity/tools

• May 5, 2026
  host_permissions

  https://*.youtube.com/*, https://*.supabase.co/*, https://api.polar.sh/*

  https://*.youtube.com/*, https://*.supabase.co/*, https://api.polar.sh/*, https://returnyoutubedislikeapi.com/*

• May 5, 2026
  permissions

  storage, sidePanel, activeTab, tabs, alarms, identity, downloads

  scripting, storage, sidePanel, activeTab, tabs, alarms, identity, downloads

Permissions & access

Permissions

scriptingstoragesidePanelactiveTabtabsalarmsidentitydownloads

Host access

https://*.youtube.com/*, https://*.supabase.co/*, https://api.polar.sh/*, https://returnyoutubedislikeapi.com/*

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