How to get a YouTube transcript in Malayalam
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Copy the video link
Any YouTube video, Short, or finished livestream, in Malayalam or any other language.
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Paste it above
If the video has Malayalam captions you get them as they are. If not, the transcript is translated into Malayalam automatically.
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Copy, compare, or download
Turn on Show original to see each line next to its source, then copy the text or download a Malayalam TXT or SRT file.
Malayalam captions or a Malayalam translation
Malayalam videos often have auto-captions in Malayalam script, and film channels frequently upload subtitles. When a video has no Malayalam track, the tool machine-translates the transcript, which is accurate enough to follow along, study, or search. For publishing, have a Malayalam speaker review it.
Learn Malayalam with YouTube
Read a video's Malayalam 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" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer ts_live_..."
Common questions
How do I get a Malayalam transcript of a YouTube video?
Paste the link above. The tool uses the video's Malayalam captions when it has them and translates the transcript into Malayalam when it doesn't.
Can I translate an English video into Malayalam?
Yes. Any video's transcript can be translated into Malayalam. Turn on Show original to read both languages line by line, and download them together as a bilingual SRT or TXT.
Can I download Malayalam subtitles?
Yes. After the transcript loads, click SRT or VTT for a Malayalam subtitle file with the original timings.
Are Malayalam auto-captions accurate?
Malayalam videos often have auto-captions in Malayalam script, and film channels frequently upload subtitles. 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.