Transcript Tools

YouTube Transcript Cleaner

Clean the messy output from YouTube's auto-generated captions. Fixes all-lowercase text, removes repeated lines, capitalises sentences, and merges fragmented caption blocks into readable paragraphs.

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YouTube auto-generated transcript

All processing happens in your browser; transcript text is never uploaded

Features

  • Capitalises first word of each sentence
  • Removes repeated adjacent lines (common in auto-captions)
  • Merges short caption fragments into natural sentences
  • Handles YouTube's caption export format
  • Copy or download cleaned transcript

How to use it

  1. Copy transcript from YouTube's '...' > Open transcript.
  2. Paste into the input panel.
  3. Clean output appears instantly.
  4. Copy or download.

Use cases

  • Creating blog posts from YouTube video transcripts
  • Extracting readable quotes from YouTube videos
  • Preparing YouTube content for summarisation tools

Limitations

  • Timestamped short caption lines are merged into cleaner paragraphs.
  • Unusual transcript exports may still need manual cleanup.
  • Review output before using it in publishing, captions, reports, or archives.
Questions & answers

Frequently asked

How do I get a YouTube transcript?

Click the '...' menu below a YouTube video, select 'Open transcript', then copy all the text from the transcript panel.