Caption Grab: Google Meet & Vimeo Transcript Exporter

About

Caption Grab lets you capture and export live captions from Google Meet and transcript data from Vimeo — entirely inside your
browser.

  No bot joins your meeting. No audio is recorded. No data leaves your machine.

  How to use (Google Meet):
  1. Join a Google Meet call
  2. Turn on captions in Meet
  3. Click the extension icon → Start Recording
  4. When you're done, choose a format and click Stop & Save

  How to use (Vimeo):
  • Download Transcript — grab the full transcript when the video page has a transcript panel
  • Start Recording — capture live caption text from the video player

  Export formats:
  • Plain text (.txt) — timestamped lines with speaker labels
  • JSON (.json) — structured data with metadata and speaker list
  • Markdown (.md) — grouped by speaker, formatted for notes

  Privacy:
  • No external APIs or cloud services
  • No third-party transcription
  • No audio capture
  • No server-side processing
  • Reads only caption text already visible in your browser

  Settings:
  Customize debounce timing, opacity thresholds, default format, and filename prefix via the options page (right-click the icon →
  Options).