Get an accurate text transcript from any YouTube video. Two-step flow: download the MP4 here on instagramtomp4.app, then upload to the transcriber. SRT export included.
YouTube's built-in transcript feature is limited to English auto-captions with no timestamps you can export, no summaries, and no translation workflow. This page gives you the full-featured version: download the YouTube video as MP4 first (we have a YouTube Shorts downloader on this same site), then upload the MP4 to the transcriber. You end up with a clean SRT, a plain-text transcript, and optionally a 5-bullet AI summary — all generated by Whisper and Claude, not YouTube's stripped-down internal engine.
Because YouTube's terms and anti-scraping measures are a moving target, URL-based transcribers break constantly. A two-step flow (download → upload) is boringly reliable: once you have the MP4 locally, nothing Google changes can interfere. We're working on a safer direct-URL flow that respects YouTube's API boundaries, but the download-first path is the one we can guarantee today.
Use our own YouTube Shorts downloader (works for regular videos too) or any downloader you prefer. Save the MP4 to your desktop or phone. This is the step YouTube can break, not the transcription step — if you can get an MP4 onto your device, the rest is deterministic.
Drop the downloaded MP4 into the upload box above. Your browser extracts the audio locally (ffmpeg.wasm), uploads a compact MP3 to our Cloudflare Worker, which hands it to Whisper. You'll get a transcript, optional AI summary, and optional translation — all from the audio that YouTube already streamed to your device, no extra scraping involved.
Not yet. A download-first flow is what we can reliably support today. Direct URL ingestion is on the roadmap once we can do it without violating YouTube's ToS.
For accuracy, roughly on par for English. For timestamps-you-can-export, language detection beyond English, translation, and summarization, yes — significantly better.
Only on Pro ($4.99/month), which allows up to 4-hour files. Free tier stops at 10 minutes. Most YouTube tutorials are in the 5–20 minute range.
Yes — Shorts are just short MP4s. The same two-step flow works; download the Short, upload it here.
That's the primary use case. Download the video, transcribe it, download the .srt, then upload the .srt in YouTube Studio → Subtitles. You end up with perfectly-synced captions plus, optionally, translated captions in a second language.