Making YouTube content accessible to everyone

YouTubeTranscript.dev was born out of a simple frustration: too many YouTube videos lacked accessible transcript data. Whether it was a research lecture, a podcast episode, or a tutorial — getting the text content out of a video was unnecessarily difficult.

We started building in 2024 with a clear mission: make YouTube transcript extraction fast, reliable, and accessible to everyone. What began as a simple tool quickly grew into a full platform trusted by over 3,000 users — from individual content creators to development teams integrating our API.

Today, we've processed over 10,000 transcript extractions and continue to innovate with features like AI-powered audio transcription, mind map generation, and smart summaries.

Most transcript tools fail when YouTube's default captions aren't available. According to a 3Play Media study, over 85% of social media videos are watched without sound, yet millions of YouTube videos still lack captions.

We solved this problem with AI-powered audio transcription. When native captions aren't available, our system automatically transcribes from the video's audio track using state-of-the-art speech recognition — supporting 100+ languages with up to 95% accuracy.

The global speech and voice recognition market is projected to reach $50 billion by 2029 (MarketsandMarkets). We're at the forefront of making this technology accessible for YouTube content.