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Download YouTube subtitles as SRT or VTT
Paste any public YouTube link and get short, readable subtitle lines, ready for Premiere, DaVinci, CapCut or a client.
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Paste any public YouTube link and get short, readable subtitle lines, ready for Premiere, DaVinci, CapCut or a client.
Trusted by 42,800+ creators
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Every cue above is real output of a Subtitles (SRT or VTT) job on the sample video, in the same rows the cue editor uses. Type in any of them: the caption on the video changes with you, the start and end times stay as they are, and Reset to original puts the subtitle file back. Nothing here is saved, and in your own job the same edit is one Save away from the download and the burned-in video.
An SRT is a plain-text list of subtitle cues: a number, a start and end time, and one or two lines of text per cue. Editors and YouTube Studio read it; WebVTT is the same idea for web players.
The first three cues of the sample video as SRT, then the same three as WebVTT. Both come from one Subtitles job, unedited. Same cues either way: the WebVTT opens with its header line and puts milliseconds after a dot.
Fix a name or a term, save, and the timing does not move. You can also upload an edited .srt, and Reset to original brings the generated text back.
Choose Subtitles (Burned in) instead of Subtitles (SRT or VTT) and you get an MP4 with the captions rendered in: six fonts, four positions, your colours. Same cues, same editor before the burn.
| Feature | YouTube Studio download | Extensions and scrapers | YoutubeToText |
|---|---|---|---|
| Videos it works on | Your own uploads | Videos with captions | Any public or unlisted video |
| Where the text comes from | YouTube's auto captions | YouTube's caption track | Generated from the audio |
| Cue shape | Rolling two-line cues | As YouTube stores them | Short lines, cut at a pause |
| Formats | SRT, VTT, SBV | Varies | SRT and WebVTT |
| Edit before download | In Studio, own videos only | No | Cue editor, timing kept |
| Other languages | Auto translate, own videos only | Only tracks that exist | Up to 9 per job, same timing |
Add target languages now if you need them; each one adds the length of the video to the cost. Filler words are cleaned on every Subtitles job.
Each cue shows its start and end time and its text. Retype a misspelled name and save. The times do not change. Reset to original undoes every edit.
Drop the .srt on your timeline in Premiere, DaVinci or CapCut, or upload it to your own video in YouTube Studio under Subtitles. Use the .vtt for a web player.
Creators who fix the SRT from YouTube Studio report that a 15-minute track came into Premiere cut short at under five minutes. Here the subtitles run to the last cue of the video, and a video can be up to 12 hours long. There is no watermark in the SRT, the WebVTT or the burned MP4 on any plan, including the free minutes. What can stop short is a preview: on the free plan, a video longer than your remaining free minutes gives you the cues for that part and an Unlock button for the rest. Unlock covers this one video, or take a plan if you caption every week.
Names, brands and technical terms are where auto captions go wrong most often: a podcast title turns into three unrelated words, a city name comes out as two syllables that are not a word. The subtitles here come from the audio through ElevenLabs Scribe v2, and they still deserve one pass for names before you ship. That pass happens in the cue editor, not in a text editor. Retype the word, save, and the timing does not move, so you cannot knock the track out of sync with a stray keystroke the way you can when you open an SRT in Notepad. The translations are made in the same job from the generated text, so a fix in the original does not carry over: each language has its own tab in the editor, and you correct the name there too.
An editor on the Adobe forum makes several reels a week and wants an external proofreader to check the captions. The advice in that thread was to send the text and let the proofreader change only the words, never the timecodes. That is what the cue editor enforces: text is editable, times are not. Send the client the .srt for review, or paste the cues into a document if they do not open subtitle tracks. When they send corrections back, retype them cue by cue and download the final .srt. For the video that gets posted, run the same link as a Burned job: you get an MP4 with the captions rendered in, and you can restyle and re-burn a language for free within 7 days of the job. Deliver the SRT for the archive and the MP4 for the feed.
I would upload the video to YouTube, then download the SRT file, re-upload the SRT file into Premiere, then just fix grammar mistakes.
I'd rather post one less Short than fix captions the way Studio wants me to on my phone.
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