Introduction

Lately, I kept finding myself copy-pasting transcripts from long YouTube videos.
Every time, it was the same 3 lines of code I had lying around.

So I thought… why not just make it a Chrome extension?

Now it’s one click, and I use it way more than I expected.

Built it mainly for myself, but if you’re someone who digs into long videos and needs transcripts — it might save you time too.

The Code

// click show transcript button
document. querySelector(
    'button [aria-label="Show transcript"]'
).click();

// Get the video transcript text
document . querySelector(
    ".ytd-transcript-segment-list-renderer#segments-container"
).innerText

Links

• Chrome Webstore: Tiny Youtube Transcript Extractor
• Github: repo

Here is the demo