How to Download YouTube Subtitles as Text & Transcript Files

 

Subtitles are an easy and highly effective way to make your video content more accessible to a wider audience.

First, multilingual subtitle options benefit people who don’t speak the audio’s native language. But they also benefit people who may be Deaf or hard-of-hearing, as well as people who choose to watch your video without sound — whether out of preference or necessity.

Plus, viewers can use the text from those subtitles. For instance, if you’re trying to Spanish, watching a video with Spanish subtitles could be a helpful tool and study aide. YouTube offers viewers the option to download a video’s subtitles as text, provided that the video’s creator has already added those subtitles to their video file.

Below, we’ll walk you through how to download YouTube subtitles as text files. So if you need to download a video’s subtitles for offline use, here’s how to do it:

1. Go to your desired YouTube video

2. Check to make sure the YouTube video has captions/subtitles added with the “CC” button. Go to the bottom ... three dots then select "Open Transcript" to see which subtitle languages are available. Click the dropdown menu to select the language of your subtitles.

3. Click the three dots at the top of the transcript to turn the timestamps in the transcript on or off.

4. Now highlight the transcript, copy it, and paste it to a word processor or notepad app of your choice

 And there you have it! Pretty easy