How to Download YouTube Video Subtitles: 14 Steps (with Pictures)

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Click

Open Transcript

. It’s the second option in the pop-up menu that appears when you click the menu icon below the video. This opens a transcript of the video in a window to the right of the video.

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Click

⋮

followed by

Toggle Timestamps

(Optional). If you don’t want the timestamps to appear next to each line of text in the transcript, you can click the icon with three dots above the window with the transcript and to the right. Then click Toggle Timestamps to turn them off.

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Highlight and copy the entire transcript text. The easiest way to highlight the text is to start from the bottom and go to the top. Drag the slider bar to the right of the transcript box all the way down. Click and drag from bottom to top to highlight the entire transcript.

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Save the transcript. To save the transcript, click File and click Save as (or Save on Mac). Type a name for the file next to “Filename” and click Save.