youtube · transcript of a podcast episode

Watched a podcast on YouTube? Read the transcript.

Paste the YouTube link of the episode below. We find that same episode in the podcast's audio feed and give you its full transcript, with timestamps you can match to the video: straight away if we have it, in about two minutes if not.

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How it works

  1. Copy the video link: Share, then Copy under the video, or the address bar on a computer.
  2. Paste it above. We read the video's title, channel, date and description through YouTube's official API.
  3. We match it to the episode in the show's public podcast feed and transcribe that audio. Nothing is downloaded from YouTube.

This works for podcasts: shows that publish on YouTube and as audio in podcast apps, which is nearly every big one. A video that only exists on YouTube has no podcast feed, so there is nothing for us to match.

Better than the auto captions

YouTube's own transcript panel shows its automatic captions in short fragments, with no punctuation on many videos, and only inside YouTube. Ours is the whole conversation as readable text that you can copy in one go or download.

  • Formats: plain text, text with timestamps, .srt and .vtt subtitles, and word-level JSON.
  • Price: $1 an episode, any length, yours to keep.

Find your episode $1 an episode, any length. No subscription.

Questions people ask

Will the timestamps match the video?
Usually closely. The audio version of an episode can have different ads or an intro the video does not, so a timestamp can be off by those few minutes. They match the audio exactly.
Can I use a link to a YouTube Short or a clip?
Paste the full episode instead. A clip has its own title and length, so we may not be sure which episode it came from.

Facts on this page checked October 29, 2026.