The fastest way to turn YouTube videos into AI context
YouTube is the largest knowledge base on the planet, and most of it is locked behind playback. The official transcript panel is hidden in a side menu, missing on many videos, and stripped of all useful structure. Our YouTube to Markdown tool fixes that: paste any public YouTube URL and get back a clean Markdown document you can paste into Claude, ChatGPT or any RAG pipeline.
We do not just copy the auto-generated captions. The tool downloads the audio and transcribes it with Whisper large-v3-turbo, which returns punctuated, capitalized sentences, so a video without captions works as well as one with them. When YouTube blocks the audio download, the tool falls back to YouTube’s own captions and says so in the page.
Built for long-form videos
- Works with regular videos, Shorts and finished livestream replays
- Detects the spoken language and supports 50+ languages
- Videos over two hours are transcribed in the background while the page follows progress
- Up to 30 minutes per video on Free, 2 hours on Starter, 5 hours on Pro and Business
- Private, members-only and age-restricted videos are refused with a message that says why
- Several videos at once: paste one link per line and download every transcript as a ZIP
Use it to mine YouTube for research, build study notes, generate blog drafts, populate a knowledge base, or feed long lectures to an LLM as plain text instead of a link it cannot open.