YouTube Copy Transcript

About

YouTube Copy Transcript is a clean, minimal Chrome extension for copying YouTube video subtitles as readable plain text. Open a video, choose the subtitle track, click copy, and paste the transcript anywhere.

✨ Features:

- Copy YouTube transcripts from a compact popup
- Supports manual and auto-generated subtitles
- Keeps useful timestamps
- Cleans repeated captions, markup, HTML entities, and extra whitespace
- Groups tiny caption fragments into readable paragraphs
- Automatically prefers the subtitle track closest to your browser language

🔒 Privacy-friendly by design:

- No ads
- No analytics
- No tracking
- No external services
- No background server
- Only works with the active YouTube tab

This extension is open source, simple, and intentionally minimal. I originally built it for myself because I wanted a fast, reliable way to copy YouTube transcripts without clutter or distractions, and I'm sharing it in case it is useful for you too.