Tubio Free YouTube transcript Downloader

Download YouTube transcripts in one click. Pick your format. Save to your computer. Works on single videos, playlists, channels, and videos playing inside a playlist. No copy-pasting, no third-party websites, no shady screen scrapers — Tubio extracts captions directly from YouTube's own data and saves them locally. 🎯 WHAT TUBIO DOES Tubio is a YouTube transcript downloader and subtitle extractor that lives in your browser's side panel. Navigate to any YouTube video, playlist, or channel, open Tubio, and download captions instantly in five professional formats. 📄 5 EXPORT FORMATS • TXT — Clean plain text with optional [HH:MM:SS] timestamps • JSON — Structured data with full metadata for developers, scripts, and pipelines • CSV — Spreadsheet-ready, RFC 4180 compliant • SRT — Professional subtitle file format with millisecond precision • VTT — WebVTT subtitle format for web video players Bulk SRT and VTT downloads are automatically packaged as a ZIP with individually numbered files, ready for video editors and subtitle workflows. 🎚️ ADJUSTABLE CHUNK SIZE Control how transcript segments are grouped before download. YouTube's default captions arrive in 5-second chunks. Tubio lets you merge them into larger, readable blocks — 10s, 15s, 30s, 1 minute, 2 minutes, or 5 minutes — so you get clean paragraphs instead of short caption fragments. The live preview updates as you adjust. 📦 BULK DOWNLOAD — UP TO 800 VIDEOS Download transcripts from entire playlists and channels automatically. Tubio scrolls through the page, extracts every video ID, and processes them one by one with human-like pacing. • Up to 800 videos per bulk session • Smart rate limiting that mimics human browsing • 3 automatic retries per failed video • Pause, resume, or cancel anytime • Real-time progress bar with ETA • Failed-video tracking with one-click retry • Resume interrupted bulk jobs after browser restart — transcripts persist in IndexedDB so you never lose work 🎬 WORKS ON ALL YOUTUBE PAGE TYPES • Single videos (youtube.com/watch?v=...) • YouTube Shorts (youtube.com/shorts/...) • Playlist pages (youtube.com/playlist?list=...) • Videos playing inside a playlist (watch + list URL) • Channel video pages (youtube.com/@channel/videos) 🌍 28 LANGUAGES SUPPORTED Tubio understands YouTube's transcript panel in 28 languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Arabic, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamese, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Czech, Hungarian, Greek, Hebrew, and Ukrainian. Both manually authored subtitles and auto-generated captions are supported, with manual tracks preferred when available. ⚡ YOUTUBE-NATIVE BUTTON Tubio injects a Transcript button directly into YouTube's action bar — right next to Like, Share, and Download. Click it to download the transcript instantly using your saved settings. A three-dot menu button next to it opens the full side panel. On Shorts, a round Tubio button appears above the Like button for one-tap downloads. 🔒 BUILT FOR PRIVACY • No transcript data leaves your browser — all extraction happens locally • No server-side scraping, no third-party API calls for captions • Your YouTube session stays private • Transcripts are never uploaded anywhere — they're written directly to your computer 🚀 HOW IT WORKS 1. Go to any YouTube video, playlist, or channel 2. Click the Tubio icon to open the side panel 3. Pick your format (TXT, JSON, CSV, SRT, or VTT) 4. Adjust chunk size if you want larger text blocks 5. Click Download For playlists and channels, Tubio handles everything automatically — just click Extract and wait. 💡 PERFECT FOR • Students creating study notes from lectures and online courses • Researchers extracting data from interviews and panel discussions • Content creators repurposing video into blog posts, captions, and clips • Journalists archiving source material with timestamped quotes • Developers building datasets from YouTube content for AI, NLP, or analytics • Translators working with multi-language subtitle files • Podcasters who post episodes on YouTube and need text versions • Anyone who needs text from YouTube videos at scale Have feedback, a bug report, or a feature request? Leave a review — we read every one.