YouTube Timestamp Generator
Paste any YouTube link, and AI turns the full transcript into clean chapter timestamps — meaningful topics at the right moments, ready to copy straight into your description.
AI-Powered Chapters From Any YouTube Video
GetYTSubtitles downloads the subtitles, sends the complete transcript to AI, and returns meaningful chapter timestamps based on what is actually discussed — not just equal slices of the timeline.
What Is the AI Timestamp Generator?
The GetYTSubtitles AI Timestamp Generator is a two-part tool. First it silently downloads the full subtitle transcript with its original timestamps. Then it hands that complete transcript — every line, every real cue time — to the same AI model used by our Notes Maker, along with your chosen detail level.
The AI understands the whole video before writing a single chapter. It picks the spot where each topic actually begins and names it in a short, meaningful title. The result is a clean list of chapters like05:18 Understanding Authentication that you can paste directly into a YouTube description.
How to Generate Video Chapters
Getting AI chapters for any video takes three steps:
Paste the YouTube URL
Copy any video link — youtube.com/watch?v=..., youtu.be/..., or a Short — and paste it into the box. The subtitles download automatically in the background.
Choose How Detailed
Pick a preset interval like every 5 or 15 minutes, or enter your own, e.g. every 12 minutes. The AI analyzes the complete transcript using all original timestamps as context.
Generate & Copy
The AI returns meaningful English chapter titles aligned to real topic transitions. Copy all, copy as YouTube chapters, or download a .txt — each timestamp is clickable to copy on its own.
Why AI-Generated Chapters Help
Video Descriptions
Timestamps in YouTube descriptions become clickable chapter links. Generated in YouTube's own format, each line jumps viewers straight to the right moment in the video.
Wikis & Documentation
Turn a long tutorial, dashcam, or podcast upload into a browsable table of contents that links to every key section — no manual note-taking required.
Research & Notes
Keep a time reference for every topic in a lecture, demo, or discussion. AI chapter titles make it trivial to jump back to any section later. Pair with the subtitle downloader.
Better Than Equal Splits
Instead of slicing the timeline into even chunks, the AI reads the whole video and places chapters where topics actually begin — so titles match real content, not clock math.
Privacy
When you paste a link, we fetch the subtitles, send the transcript to the AI once to generate chapters, return the result to you, and immediately discard everything. No video URLs or transcripts are stored, no account is required, and nothing is logged beyond normal server activity. Read the full privacy policy.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the AI timestamp generator work?
We download the full subtitle transcript of your video with its original timestamps, then send that complete transcript to the same AI model used by the Notes Maker. The AI understands the entire video and produces chapter timestamps aligned to where each topic actually begins.
Are the timestamps based on the real video content?
Yes. The interval you pick (5, 10, 15, 20 or 30 minutes) places one timestamp roughly every N minutes across the whole video — a 60-minute video at 5 min gives about 13 chapters — and the AI shifts each one to the nearest real topic transition using the video’s actual subtitle timestamps. The first chapter is always 00:00. If you write a custom instruction in the “Tell AI how you want your timestamps” box, the AI follows that instead.
Can I use the chapters in a YouTube description?
Yes. Use "Copy as YouTube Chapters" — the output follows YouTube’s own format (like 0:00, 5:18) with the title right after the time, so every line becomes a clickable chapter link when pasted into the description.
Which YouTube video formats are supported?
All standard formats work: youtube.com/watch?v=..., youtu.be/..., YouTube Shorts, and embed or live links. Just paste any of them and the tool picks the video automatically.
Do you store the transcript after generating chapters?
No. We fetch the subtitles, send them to the AI once, return your chapters, and discard everything immediately. No accounts, no stored history.