Save YouTube Transcript as a formated text

Tracking since Apr 19, 2026.

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• May 14, 2026
  description

  ## Functionality
  
  - Save YouTube Transcript as a formated text file (md file, you can use any text editor, or Visual Studio Code)
  - Open the transcript into a new tab to read it more conveniently
  - Add the load transcription button
  - add a button to double YouTube speed
  
  ## Limitations
  
  - If you go from one page to another, then buttons may disappear. Reload the page in this case. 
  - You must click on "show video text" to see the translation before clicking on this button.
  - YouTube has different ways to show a transcript,
    they can randomly change it for certain video (so it's difficult to test),
    and they can invent a new one, so it might not work for some type of transcript. 
  - If a video doesn't have any transcript, then there are not these buttons.
  - Then you push the button to double YouTube speed – there is no indication about it (only console.log).
  - Then you push the button to double YouTube speed it runs the autoreset function to prevent changing speed from other events. 
   To turn it off, you need to reload the page.
  - If the page has more than one video player (picture in picture), then only the first one will be affected with changing speed.
  
  Source: https://github.com/andrew2020wit/youtube-transcript-to-text

  This is a YouTube extension that was originally created for exporting subtitles to a text file,
  but over time its functionality has changed somewhat.
  Now it's an extension with several features that I sometimes use.
  
  ## Functionality
  
  - Add the load transcription button (you have to load transcript before work with it)
  - Open the transcript into a new tab to read it more conveniently
  - Save YouTube Transcript as a formated text file (md file, you can use any text editor, or Visual Studio Code)
  - Add a button to double YouTube speed
  - Add a button to copy the cleared url to clipboard (without the time and playlist)
  
  ## Limitations
  
  - Then you push the button to double YouTube speed it runs the autoreset function to prevent changing speed from other events. 
   To turn it off, you need to reload the page. Or set another speed.
  - If the page has more than one video player (picture in picture), then only the first one will be affected with changing speed.
  
  ## ChangeLog
  
  2026-05-09 v 5.0.0
      Changed how to show buttons; it's always visible now before the title in the description.
      Added tooltips to the buttons.
      Added the "copy to clipboard cleared current url" button. (without list information)
      Added alert for empty transcript.
  
  Source: https://github.com/andrew2020wit/youtube-transcript-to-text

• May 14, 2026
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• Apr 26, 2026
  description

  ## Functionality
  
  - Save YouTube Transcript as a formated text file (md file, you can use any text editor, or Visual Studio Code)
  - Open the transcript into a new tab to read it more conveniently
  - Add the load transcription button
  - add a button to double YouTube speed
  
  ## Limitations
  
  - If you go from one page to another then buttons may disappear. Reload the page in this case. 
  - You must click on "show video text" to see translation before click on this button.
  - YouTube has different ways to show a transcript,
    they can randomly change it for certain video (so it's difficult to test),
    and they can invent a new one, so it might not work for some type of transcript. 
  - Then you push button to double YouTube speed - there is no indication about it (only console.log).
  - If video doesn't have any transcript, then there are not these buttons.
  
  Source: https://github.com/andrew2020wit/youtube-transcript-to-text

  ## Functionality
  
  - Save YouTube Transcript as a formated text file (md file, you can use any text editor, or Visual Studio Code)
  - Open the transcript into a new tab to read it more conveniently
  - Add the load transcription button
  - add a button to double YouTube speed
  
  ## Limitations
  
  - If you go from one page to another, then buttons may disappear. Reload the page in this case. 
  - You must click on "show video text" to see the translation before clicking on this button.
  - YouTube has different ways to show a transcript,
    they can randomly change it for certain video (so it's difficult to test),
    and they can invent a new one, so it might not work for some type of transcript. 
  - If a video doesn't have any transcript, then there are not these buttons.
  - Then you push the button to double YouTube speed – there is no indication about it (only console.log).
  - Then you push the button to double YouTube speed it runs the autoreset function to prevent changing speed from other events. 
   To turn it off, you need to reload the page.
  - If the page has more than one video player (picture in picture), then only the first one will be affected with changing speed.
  
  Source: https://github.com/andrew2020wit/youtube-transcript-to-text

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