Paste a YouTube link. Get the full transcript as clean, copyable text in about 2 seconds — 100% of caption-bearing videos, for free. No installs, no extensions, no API keys.
This is a live transcript pulled by the same engine that serves your YouTube link — from vimeo.com/76979871, 124 words, English captions, no account.
Under a minute. No plugins. No copy-paste from the description.
Copy the URL of any YouTube video — lecture, talk, interview, tutorial, or a 12k-word live stream.
ClawGrab pulls the transcript in ~2 seconds. Caption-bearing videos return the publisher's captions verbatim.
Copy clean text, export SRT, summarize, chat with the content, or push it straight into ChatGPT or Claude.
YouTube's built-in transcript button gets you part of the way. Here's what's missing:
Turn a 45-minute lecture into searchable notes, flashcards and study summaries — without rewatching.
Mine talks for titles, chapter markers, captions, and clips without transcribing a second by hand.
Quote verbatim. Get the exact phrasing from interviews and press briefs — the text is the publisher's captions, no hallucination.
Copyable, searchable text for anyone who prefers reading to watching — or needs captions as text.
The honest answers.
Yes — ClawGrab is free during the beta: unlimited grabs, no card, no account needed to start, AI features included.
If the video has captions, you get the captions verbatim — that's 100% of caption-bearing videos. For no-caption videos we fall back to speech-to-text, which is good but imperfect on music and heavy noise. A small share of videos block transcript access entirely (music, live-only, password-gated); ClawGrab tells you exactly what happened. No tool gets 100%. We never fake a result.
About 2 seconds for a typical video. Even large live-stream recordings — we've pulled 12k-word transcripts from YouTube LIVE — land in seconds.
The built-in button is desktop-only, doesn't let you copy the full text on mobile, has no SRT export, and only works on YouTube. ClawGrab covers 25+ platforms — including Vimeo, TikTok, podcasts and live streams — and formats text for AI tools.
For caption-bearing videos, the text is the publisher's own captions — verbatim, no hallucination. Speech-to-text fallback is honest about its limits: heavy music, accents and overlapping speech reduce accuracy. That's why we never claim a fake 100%.
Paste one link. Get the words. Feed your AI.
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