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How to Download & Copy YouTube Transcripts Without Timestamps

Published: 2026 • 5 min read • By Editorial Team

Whether you are summarizing a long interview, converting a video tutorial into a blog post, or preparing study notes, copying dialogue from YouTube is the fastest way to gather spoken knowledge.

However, YouTube automatically prepends every single line with time markers like 0:15, 0:42, or 1:12:04. If you paste this directly into Google Docs or ChatGPT, it looks cluttered and unreadable.

Method 1: Copy YouTube Transcript on Desktop

  1. Open your video on YouTube using Chrome, Safari, or Firefox.
  2. Below the video title, click the "...more" button to expand the description box.
  3. Scroll down and click "Show transcript". A panel will open showing all spoken lines.
  4. Highlight the transcript text from top to bottom and press Ctrl + C (or Cmd + C on Mac).

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  1. Open NoTimestamps Cleaner.
  2. Paste your copied YouTube text directly into the Raw Subtitles box.
  3. Select Paragraph mode to join broken sentences together and automatically strip tags like [Music] and [Applause].
  4. Click Clean Subtitles, then tap Copy Text or Download .TXT.