Paste a YouTube lecture or TED talk link. Get the full transcript as clean, searchable text in ~2 seconds — then turn it into notes, summaries and study guides.
The exact workflow that makes studying 10x faster.
Paste the YouTube link into ClawGrab and hit GRAB. A TED talk returns ~2,000–3,000 words; a 45-minute lecture considerably more.
Search the text for the exact concept in your slides. Ctrl-F beats rewind — every time.
Copy key quotes for citations, paste the transcript into an AI tool for summaries and flashcards, or export SRT for your notes app.
Watching a video twice to get the key points costs you the same 45 minutes plus a rewind. Reading a transcript takes a fraction of the time — and lets you scan straight to what you need. The text is the publisher's own captions, verbatim, so what you quote is what was actually said.
TED talks run 2,000–3,000 words of spoken text. Live-streamed lectures we've pulled have hit 12,000 words. That's a semester's worth of material you can manage as plain text — grab any of the 25+ supported platforms, including university channels that stream lectures on YouTube LIVE.
Live transcript pulled from vimeo.com/76979871 — 124 words, English captions, no account, ~1.5s.
Four ways students use ClawGrab every week.
Paste the transcript into your AI tool: "Make 20 exam-style flashcards from this."
Stop scrubbing timelines. Searching text is instant and doesn't skip a single point.
Verbatim quotes for essays and presentations — the text matches what was actually said.
Read instead of watch when a video is hard to follow, or when you're on a bumpy bus.
The honest answers.
If the lecture has captions, you get them verbatim. Without captions we fall back to speech-to-text — good on clean studio audio, imperfect on muffled classroom recordings. We tell you when accuracy suffers rather than pretending.
Yes. Notes, quotes, summaries and studying from a transcript are standard fair use. Don't republish a whole lecture as your own work — that's plagiarism, not note-taking.
Yes — TED talks on YouTube are caption-bearing, so you get the official captions verbatim. A typical 18-minute talk runs 2,000–3,000 words.
Free during the beta — unlimited grabs, no card, no account needed to start, summarization and study-question generation included. Nothing is for sale right now.
Yes. It's a pure web app — phone, tablet, laptop, anything with a browser. YouTube's own transcript button is desktop-only, which is one of the reasons students switch.
Your next lecture is one paste away from perfect notes.
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