YT Transcript Exporter by techmystique

YT Transcript Exporter is the ultimate tool for extracting YouTube video transcripts in clean, AI-ready format. Perfect for feeding content to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or any LLM for analysis, summarization, and content generation.

✨ Key Features:
• ⚡ One-Click Export - Set your preferences once, export with a single click

• 📝 Clean Transcript Export - Download transcripts as formatted Markdown (.md) or plain text (.txt) files

• 📋 Playlist Transcript Export - Export every transcript in a YouTube playlist in one click, including your Watch Later and Liked videos. Delivers a ZIP archive with individually named files in your choice of Markdown (.md) or plain text (.txt), complete with an export summary report.

• 📺 Channel, Search & Home Feed Export - Bulk-export transcripts from a channel's Videos or Shorts tab, from YouTube search results, or from your home feed. Pick the videos you want (or the first 10, 50, 100) and get one ZIP.

• 🎬 YouTube Shorts Transcripts - Export the transcript of any Short with the button in the Shorts action bar

• 📋 Instant Copy - Copy entire transcripts to your clipboard instantly

• 🌍 Multi-Language Support - Export transcripts in any available language

• ⏱ Timestamp Control - Choose to include or exclude timestamps

• 🎯 Native YouTube Integration - Seamlessly integrates below the video alongside Share and other action buttons

• 🏷 Chapter Support - Automatically includes YouTube chapter headings in your exports

• 🧹 Smart Cleaning - Removes XML tags and formatting artifacts automatically

• 💾 Persistent Settings - Your preferences are saved across browser sessions

• 📖 Built-in Guide - A step-by-step guide with screenshots shows exactly where every export button is

• 🔒 Privacy First - Transcripts are processed locally in your browser and never leave your computer

🎓 Perfect For:
• AI/ML researchers training models on video content
• Content creators using LLMs for video analysis and summarization
• Developers building AI-powered tools with YouTube data
• Students using AI tutors for video learning
• Researchers extracting insights for AI analysis
• Anyone leveraging LLMs for content processing

🚀 How It Works:
1. Click the extension icon to configure your preferences:
- Include/exclude timestamps
- Choose Text or Markdown format
- Select Copy or Download action
- Enable language selection (for multi-language videos)
2. Navigate to any YouTube video with transcripts
3. Click the purple "Export" button below the video
4. Get perfectly formatted content instantly - copied or downloaded based on your settings!
For many videos at once, open a playlist, channel, search results or the home page and click "Export transcripts".

🛡 Security & Privacy:
• Minimal permissions required (activeTab, scripting, storage)
• Works exclusively on YouTube.com
• No data collection or tracking, no accounts
• Transcripts are processed locally in your browser and never sent anywhere
• No requests to any server other than YouTube itself
💡 Pro Tips:
• Works with videos that have auto-generated or manual transcripts
• Chapter headings are automatically included when available
• Markdown format includes video title and source URL - perfect for LLM context
• Copy to clipboard for instant pasting into ChatGPT, Claude, or other AI tools
• Clean text format ensures optimal LLM processing without formatting artifacts
• Settings sync across your devices with Firefox Sync

🔧 Technical Excellence:
• Built with modern web technologies
• Manifest V3 compliant
• Regular updates for YouTube UI changes (including YouTube's new transcript panel)
• Lightweight and fast performance
• Also available for Chrome, Edge and Brave

📚 AI-Powered Use Cases:
• Training custom AI models on YouTube educational content
• Feeding technical tutorials to AI for code generation assistance
• Analyzing video content with AI for research insights
• Creating AI-powered video summaries and analyses
• Building knowledge bases from YouTube expertise
• Extracting structured data for AI processing pipelines
• Content analysis for SEO and marketing AI tools

Join 1,100+ users who trust YT Transcript Exporter for their LLM workflows. Download now and supercharge your AI pipeline with YouTube's vast knowledge!