Complete YouTube Toolkit in One Place

Paste your YouTube URL into our tool and select "SRT" as the format. The SRT file will be generated instantly with proper timing codes (00:00:01,500 --> 00:00:04,000). SRT format works with all major video editors including Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, and DaVinci Resolve.

Yes, absolutely. YouTube's auto-generated captions are available for download in all supported formats. These captions are created using YouTube's speech recognition technology and are available for videos in 100+ languages. Quality varies but typically achieves 80-95% accuracy for clear speech.

Yes, downloading publicly available subtitles for personal use is legal. Subtitles are factual transcriptions of spoken content, not creative works themselves. However, always respect copyright laws when using extracted content commercially and follow YouTube's Terms of Service.

Select "TXT" format when downloading. This removes all timing codes and formatting, giving you clean paragraph text perfect for blog posts, articles, or research. The plain text format preserves sentence structure while removing technical subtitle markup.

Yes, if the YouTube Short has captions enabled (either auto-generated or manually added), our tool can extract them. However, many Shorts don't have captions due to their short duration or music-focused content. The extraction process is identical to regular YouTube videos.

Absolutely. Our tool supports all 100+ languages that YouTube supports, including Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Russian, Japanese, Korean, and many others. Both auto-generated captions and manually uploaded subtitles work in any language, including right-to-left (RTL) scripts.

SRT is the universal standard supported by all video editors and players. VTT is the web standard for HTML5 video with advanced features like styling and positioning. Choose SRT for video editing, VTT for web development, TXT for content creation, and JSON for programming.

No account required, ever. Every tool on GetYTSubtitles works instantly without registration, email verification, or personal information. Just paste a YouTube URL and download your subtitles immediately.

Accuracy depends on the source: manually uploaded subtitles maintain creator accuracy (usually 95-99%), while auto-generated captions achieve 80-95% accuracy for clear speech. We never modify the content - we preserve exactly what YouTube provides.

No length limits. Extract subtitles from 30-second videos to 10-hour livestreams. Processing time scales with video length but typically remains under 3 seconds even for very long content. Live streams can be processed after they've ended.

No. Our tool only works with videos that have publicly accessible captions. If the video owner has disabled captions or made the video private, we can't retrieve them. You can check if a video has captions by looking for the CC button in the YouTube player.

Yes. The GetYTSubtitles REST API is completely free with no authentication required. Supports GET and POST requests with JSON responses. Rate limits are generous for normal usage. See our API documentation for endpoints, parameters, and code examples.

Nothing is stored. Your URLs are processed in memory and immediately discarded after generating the subtitle file. We never log URLs, video metadata, or extracted content. Each request is completely anonymous and isolated. Read our privacy policy for full details.

Yes, fully responsive. All tools work perfectly on iPhone, Android, iPad, and any modern mobile browser. No app installation required - everything works directly in your mobile browser with the same speed and features as desktop.

This happens when: 1) The creator disabled auto-captions, 2) The video is too new (captions take time to generate), 3) The audio quality is too poor for speech recognition, or 4) The video is primarily music/sound effects. Try again later or check if manual subtitles exist.