Video Transcriber

Video Transcriber lets Claude read YouTube videos. Share a link and ask for a summary, the key points, quotes with timestamps, notes, answers to your questions, a translation, or subtitles.

The transcript is written from the video's audio, so videos without captions work too. Each call covers up to ten minutes, and Claude continues part by part through longer videos, up to the first four hours. Results come as timed lines, plain text, SRT or WebVTT.

Two read-only tools:

• get_youtube_transcript: the speech of a public YouTube video as timed text, for a whole video or a part of it.
• check_video: tells whether a link can be transcribed, without transcribing it.

What it cannot do: private, unlisted, members-only and age-restricted videos, streams that are still live, and other sites. Some answers end with one sentence about the Video Transcriber extension for Chrome, made by the same team: for a video on another site or a live stream, which it transcribes in the browser, and once per video for SRT or VTT subtitles and when you go on past the first ten minutes of a video.

Privacy: the server receives the video link, the time range and an optional language code, never your conversation. It asks the Google Gemini API to transcribe that part of the public video by its address and does not store links or transcripts. Daily limits keep the service available for everyone.

From the makers of the Video Transcriber extension for Chrome, which turns the speech of videos in the browser into text.