YouTube Subtitles - Web2MD

Overview

Web2MD can extract subtitles from YouTube videos and convert them to clean, timestamped Markdown. This works with both manually uploaded captions and auto-generated subtitles (ASR).

What you get

Converting a YouTube video produces:

Video metadata — title, channel, duration, view count
Description — the video’s description text
Full transcript — subtitles grouped into ~30-second paragraphs with timestamps

Example output

# How React Hooks Work

Channel: React Official | Duration: 12:34 | Views: 1,234,567

## Description

In this video we explain how React Hooks...

## Transcript (English - auto-generated)

**[0:00]** Welcome to this video about React Hooks. Today we're going to cover the fundamentals of useState and useEffect.

**[0:30]** First, let's talk about why hooks were introduced...

**[1:00]** The useState hook lets you add state to functional components...

Supported URLs

youtube.com/watch?v=...
youtu.be/...
youtube.com/shorts/...

Language priority

Web2MD picks the best available caption track:

Manual English subtitles (highest quality)
Any manual subtitles
Auto-generated English (ASR)
Any auto-generated subtitles