YouTube to Markdown — Transcript + Comments
YouTube video descriptions and comments contain valuable context. Web2MD extracts video metadata, descriptions, and top comments in Markdown.
YouTube videos are long but AI can't watch them. Web2MD turns any YouTube video to Markdown in one click — transcript (auto-captions included), description, top comments — ready to feed Claude for summarisation, key-point extraction, or notes. Also supports the short "youtube to md" shorthand for quick exports.
Try it now — no install needed
3 free/dayPaste a YouTube link and get clean Markdown in seconds.
How to Convert
- 1Install the Web2MD extension from the Chrome Web Store
- 2Navigate to the YouTube (youtube.com) page you want to convert
- 3Click the Web2MD icon in your browser toolbar
- 4Click "Copy page as Markdown" — clean Markdown is now in your clipboard
YouTube Conversion Tips
- •Extracts video title, description, and metadata
- •Captures top comments when available
- •Useful for summarizing video content context
FAQ
Does Web2MD get the YouTube transcript?
Web2MD converts the YouTube page — the video title, full description, channel, stats, and top comments — into clean Markdown, not the video file itself. When the transcript panel is open on the page, that text is captured too. Paste the URL into Web2MD, then hand the Markdown to ChatGPT or Claude to summarize the video or pull out key points as context.
How do I summarize a YouTube video with ChatGPT?
Open the video, expand the description (and the transcript, if you want it), then paste the URL into Web2MD. It returns the title, description, and available captions as Markdown. Paste that into ChatGPT or Claude and ask for a summary — the model reads the text context instead of trying, and failing, to watch the video from a bare link.
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Install the free Web2MD Chrome extension and convert any webpage to Markdown with one click.
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