QuickTube – YouTube Transcript to Text & AI Summary

About

✔ Copy YouTube transcripts in one click
✔ Paste into ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude
✔ No login, no ads, no tracking

QuickTube is a lightweight Chrome extension that lets you instantly fetch YouTube transcripts and summarize videos faster using AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude.

Perfect for study, language learning, note-taking, podcasts, lectures, and even casual “watch later” videos when you just want the key points without watching the entire video.

Main features

• One-click transcript fetch from the current YouTube watch page
• Automatically opens YouTube’s “Show transcript” panel when needed
• Clean text area to view, edit, and select transcript text
• Copy transcript to clipboard
• Download transcript as a UTF-8 .txt file
• Send transcript to your phone via QR code  
  Quickly open the transcript on mobile without copy & paste
• Copy + Open AI  
  Copies an optional summary prompt + full transcript, then opens  
  ChatGPT / Gemini / Claude in a new tab
• Supports both manually created subtitles and YouTube’s official auto-generated transcripts

Great for

• Summarizing long videos into clear bullet points
• Turning transcripts into notes, outlines, or blog drafts
• Studying faster (classes, tutorials, interviews)
• Language learning: translate, analyze, or rephrase transcripts
• Quick “time-killer” use: paste into your favorite AI and ask for highlights, key moments, or even a funny recap

What this extension does NOT do

• Does not download audio or video
• Does not record your screen or microphone
• Does not perform speech recognition
• Does not generate new subtitles

Privacy (no surprises)

• Reads transcript text only from YouTube pages you open
• No analytics, tracking, or ads
• No data is sent to external servers  
• Transcript text is sent externally only when you explicitly use “Send to phone”
• No personal data is collected or stored

Known limitations

This extension relies on YouTube’s page structure and official transcript availability.

Because YouTube frequently updates its UI and internal behavior, the extension may not work on some videos even when transcripts appear to exist.

Some videos do not provide an official YouTube transcript.  
In such cases, this extension cannot extract text, even if captions are visible during playback.

Disclaimer

QuickTube is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by YouTube, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, or any other third-party services.