CLUSTER EXTRACTS-TRANSCRIPTS-VIDEOS · 13 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-03-06
YouTube transcript extraction tools
These are web tools that pull transcripts, subtitles, and related metadata from YouTube videos, with some aimed at content creators and researchers. The dated history before the index start consists of five single entries spread from Feb 2015 to Mar 2026, with an early 2015 entry followed by a long gap and then intermittent single entries from Apr 2022 onward. On traction, tern leads with 40 stars, far ahead of efficient-content-extractor (1 star) and transcriptyt-apify (0 stars).
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 2 ai-built · 4 hand-coded · 7 unlabelled
Operator · 4 hobby · 2 indie · 4 open source · 3 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 13 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01tern40★16 dayslivehand-codedindieLocal search tool for podcast and video archives that finds moments by speech, on-screen text, or visuals, and exports trimmed clips.
- 02efficient-content-extractor1★16 days—hand-codedhobbyA local tool that extracts YouTube video captions, generates complete transcripts and timestamped briefs, and prepares them for AI chat analysis.
- 03transcriptyt-apify0★1 dayliveindieWeb tool that extracts transcripts from YouTube videos, playlists, channels, and searches, with translation and subtitle file exports.
- 04clipsift0★2 mo—hobbyVideo transcript search tool that indexes YouTube videos, finds quoted moments, and exports timestamped clips for editing workflows.
- 05python-ytfetcher0★2 moliveopen sourceTool that fetches YouTube video transcripts and metadata in bulk.
- 06ClipMark1★6 mostalelivehobbyWeb tool that extracts transcripts, timestamps, chapters, and SEO metadata from YouTube videos for content creators.
- 07python-youtube-transcript-api0★7 mostaleliveopen sourceLibrary that retrieves transcripts and subtitles for given YouTube videos.
- 08web-to-webm0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop tool that extracts webm clips from YouTube and other video-sharing websites.
- 09yt-len0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourcePython script that retrieves the length and titles of a YouTube video or playlist.
- 10MetaTube Inspector | Free YouTube Metadata & SEO Analyzer0★unknownliveWeb tool that extracts and analyzes YouTube video metadata, tags, and descriptions to help creators optimize search visibility.
- 11Video Content Extractor0★unknownliveai-builtTool that extracts text, transcripts, or key content from uploaded videos for users.
- 12Video Text Extractor0★unknownliveai-builthobbyWeb tool that extracts text appearing in or spoken during uploaded videos and outputs it as readable text.
- 13Transform thousands of YouTube Videos in one click | YT-TBD0★unknownliveWeb tool that extracts transcripts, subtitles, and summaries from large batches of YouTube videos for content creators and researchers.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.