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Free YouTube Shorts Transcript Extractor
Paste a YouTube Shorts URL and get the available captions as a text transcript.
Quick answer
Paste a public YouTube Shorts URL and Takt extracts the available captions into a readable text transcript.
How to get a YouTube Shorts transcript
Copy the Shorts URL, paste it into the tool, then copy or download the transcript.
What Shorts work?
Public YouTube Shorts with captions available work best. If YouTube does not provide captions, the free extractor cannot return a transcript.
Shorts transcript uses
Use the transcript for quotes, notes, accessibility workflows, research, captions, or AI prompts.
Why Shorts transcript extraction can fail
Extraction can fail when a Short is private, unavailable, blocked, live, or has no captions.
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