Transcript to PDF & Markdown for YouTube

YouTube already has every word of the video. Getting it out of that little scrolling box is the hard part. Transcript to PDF & Markdown opens the whole transcript beside the player — searchable, clickable, editable — then hands it over as a clean PDF, Markdown or text file, or straight to ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini with a prompt of your own. No account, no upload, no speech recognition.

WHAT IT DOES

• Opens the full transcript in the browser's side panel, beside the video instead of covering it. Press Alt+Shift+T or click the toolbar icon.
• Click any line to seek the player to that moment. Search the transcript to find the bit you actually wanted.
• Read mode strips the timestamps and gives you clean, editable prose you can tidy before exporting.
• Export as PDF, Markdown or plain text, or copy it to the clipboard.
• Send the transcript straight to ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini with a prompt you wrote and saved. Set a default prompt and it is one click from video to answer.
• Keep notes against a transcript — they stay with the video.
• Works with every caption track the video offers, including auto-generated and auto-translated ones.

WHO IT IS FOR

Anyone who takes notes from video: students working through lectures, researchers pulling quotes, writers turning a talk into a draft, and anyone who would rather read a three-hour interview than sit through it. It is also the fastest way to give an AI the actual transcript instead of a summary of a summary.

PRIVACY

Your preferences, prompts and notes are stored on your own device. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is sold, and no account or sign-in is required. The extension contacts youtube.com and nothing else — when you send a transcript to an AI, that happens in your own browser, in your own session with that service.

Privacy policy: https://coolsoftware.io/legal/privacy/#youtube-transcript-export
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