The download button YouTube forgot
YouTube will show you a transcript, but it will not let you save it. There is no export, no file, not even a proper select-all: the text lives in a sidebar that fights you every step. This downloader restores the missing button. Paste a link, check the preview, and save the entire transcript as a text file that opens anywhere: Notepad, Word, Google Docs, Obsidian, your code editor.
The file is deliberately simple. Plain UTF-8 text, one caption per line, each line stamped with the moment it is spoken. Simple files survive everything: they never break formatting when pasted, they diff cleanly in version control, and they feed nicely into scripts and AI tools.
Build your own text library
Once transcripts become files, they become an archive you control. Save every episode of a podcast you study, keep a folder of competitor product videos, or store lecture transcripts alongside your course notes. Files on your disk stay searchable forever and do not depend on any website, including this one, still being around.
Downloading is one video, one click. When one click each is still too many, the Bulk button under every transcript hands the job to our Telegram bot: send it a list of links, or an entire channel, and it returns the transcripts as files in your chat. The bot also exports polished PDF versions if a .txt is too bare for sharing.