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Chinese YouTube Transcript

Paste a YouTube link to get its transcript in Chinese (中文). Videos with Chinese captions show them directly; any other video is translated into Chinese, with the original above each line. Free, no sign-up.

How to get a YouTube transcript in Chinese

  1. 1

    Copy the video link

    Any YouTube video, Short, or finished livestream, in Chinese or any other language.

  2. 2

    Paste it above

    If the video has Chinese captions you get them as they are. If not, the transcript is translated into Chinese automatically.

  3. 3

    Copy, compare, or download

    Turn on Show original to see each line next to its source, then copy the text or download a Chinese TXT or SRT file.

Chinese captions or a Chinese translation

Chinese videos may have Simplified or Traditional captions; pick either track, or translate into the script you read. When a video has no Chinese track, the tool machine-translates the transcript, which is accurate enough to follow along, study, or search. For publishing, have a Chinese speaker review it.

Learn Chinese with YouTube

Read a video's Chinese captions with your own language underneath, click any line to replay it, and download the bilingual transcript to study offline. Pick videos with creator-uploaded captions for the most accurate text.

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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" \
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Common questions

How do I get a Chinese transcript of a YouTube video?

Paste the link above. The tool uses the video's Chinese captions when it has them and translates the transcript into Chinese when it doesn't.

Can I translate an English video into Chinese?

Yes. Any video's transcript can be translated into Chinese. Turn on Show original to read both languages line by line, and download them together as a bilingual SRT or TXT.

Can I download Chinese subtitles?

Yes. After the transcript loads, click SRT or VTT for a Chinese subtitle file with the original timings.

Are Chinese auto-captions accurate?

Chinese videos may have Simplified or Traditional captions; pick either track, or translate into the script you read. Clear speech with little background noise gives the best results.

Is it free?

Yes. A few videos a day need no account, and signing in with Google raises the limit.