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YouTube Video to Word Document

Paste a YouTube link to get the transcript as text you can paste into Word or Google Docs, or download it as TXT or PDF. Clean paragraphs, timestamps optional. Free, no sign-up.

How to convert a YouTube video to a Word document

  1. 1

    Copy the video link

    Any YouTube video, Short, or finished livestream with captions.

  2. 2

    Paste it above

    The transcript loads as clean text without timestamps.

  3. 3

    Copy into Word or Docs

    Click Copy and paste into Word or Google Docs, or download TXT, which Word and Docs open directly.

Edit a video as a document

Turn a talk, lecture, or interview into a document you can edit, comment on, and share. It is the quickest way to start an article, report, or meeting notes from a video.

For teams and classrooms

Teachers paste transcripts into handouts, and teams drop them into shared docs for review. Use Translate first to get the document in another language.

Need more?

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_..."
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Common questions

Can I download a YouTube transcript as a Word file?

Download it as TXT and open it in Word, then save as .docx. Copying and pasting into a new document works too, and keeps the paragraphs.

How do I get a YouTube transcript into Google Docs?

Click Copy after the transcript loads and paste into a Google Doc, or upload the TXT download to Google Drive and open it with Docs.

Can I keep the timestamps in Word?

Yes. Tick Timestamps before you copy and each line keeps its time.

Can I get a PDF instead?

Yes. Click PDF after the transcript loads for a formatted document with the video title.

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.