TranscriptYTHow to get the transcript of a news video
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Copy the news video link
Reports, full broadcasts, press briefings, and finished live coverage all work.
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Paste it above
The report loads as text with a timestamp on every line.
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Read, quote, or check
Search for a name or claim, click to hear it in context, and copy the exact wording.
Read the news instead of watching it
A ten-minute report reads in two. The transcript lets you skim the story and jump to the part that matters to you.
For media monitoring and research
Researchers and comms teams keep searchable transcripts of coverage. The API fetches transcripts for whole channels and playlists at once.
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Need transcripts at scale? Use the API
The same transcripts are available through the YouTube Transcript API: timestamped JSON, text, SRT, VTT, CSV, or Markdown, 150+ languages, and AI transcription for videos without captions. Or connect the YouTube MCP server to Claude, Cursor, or Codex and just paste links in chat.
curl "https://transcript-yt.com/v1/transcript?url=5f3Pn-N6yLc&format=text" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer ts_live_..."
Common questions
Can I get a transcript of a full news broadcast?
Yes. Full broadcasts and hours of live coverage load like any other video, once YouTube has captions for them.
Can I fact-check a news clip with this?
Yes. Read the lines before and after a quote to check its context, and click to replay the exact moment.
Can I translate foreign news?
Yes. Translate the transcript into 150+ languages to read news from other countries with the original above each line.
Can I summarize a news video?
Yes. Open the Summary tab for the key points.
What if the video has no captions?
The free tool reads the captions YouTube already has, creator-uploaded or auto-generated, and most videos with speech have them. For a video with no captions at all, click Transcribe the audio with AI: it's on paid plans and credit packs, at 1 credit per minute.