Free tools
Paste a link, get the text
Four tools we build and run ourselves, free and without an account. They sit on the same infrastructure as the API, so what you get here is what the API returns. Pick the one that matches your link.
Our tools
YouTube Transcript Generator
Paste any YouTube URL and get the full transcript with timestamps. Copy it, download it, or search inside it.
Uses the video's own captions where they exist, so it is instant and exact.
Open toolTikTok Transcript Generator
Paste a TikTok link and get the spoken text, including videos that carry no captions at all.
Falls back to speech-to-text, so it works on the majority of TikToks that have nothing to scrape.
Open toolInstagram Transcript Generator
Transcribe any public Instagram Reel or video from its link. No app, no login.
Handles Reels, which carry no caption track and have to be transcribed from audio.
Open toolSummedUp
Paste a YouTube, TikTok or Instagram link and get the notes you would have written, each stamped with the second it was said, plus the transcript and quotes.
Our own summarizer, summedup.io: the same transcript engine, then a model turns the words into notes. Fifteen videos a month free.
Open toolDoing this in code instead?
The tools above are the browser front end for one API call. If you need this in a pipeline, in bulk, or on a schedule, each platform has its own endpoint and its own documented quirks.