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YouTube transcript extractor
Turn any video
into clear text.
Paste a public YouTube link and get a clean, timestamped transcript in seconds. Ready to copy, search, or download.
Built for real work
A transcript is the start, not the finish.
Turn spoken video into text you can search, understand, summarize, and reuse without replaying the whole video.
Turn long lectures into structured notes.
Paste a lecture, webinar, or course video. Get key ideas, chapters, definitions, and timestamps in one clear study guide.
Create lecture notes →Search long videos like documents.
Extract interviews, lectures, and discussions. Keep timestamps beside each passage so claims remain traceable to the original moment.
Extract a research video →Build a clean source pack.
Import selected videos from a playlist before preparing articles, show notes, clips, briefs, or social content.
Import a playlist →Make spoken content easier to use.
Read at your own pace, search for a specific phrase, remove timestamps, or keep them for quick navigation back to the video.
Create readable text →Simple by design
A faster way to get a YouTube transcript
Threadmap turns an accessible public YouTube video into clean, timestamped text. Paste the video URL, wait for the transcript, then copy it directly or download a plain text file. There is no account to create and no editor to learn.
Use a YouTube transcript for research notes, searchable references, quotations, summaries, accessibility workflows, or content review. Timestamps make it easier to return to the exact moment in the original video. Remove them when you need compact input for an AI model, or keep structured segments when your application needs traceable citations.
Transcript availability depends on the video, its captions, language, and public accessibility. Threadmap only processes public videos it can access; always respect the creator’s rights when reusing transcript content.
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