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TranscriptSnap
YouTube transcripts, minus the timestamps and the signup
YouTube's transcript comes out as timestamped, repeated, [Music]-littered fragments. TranscriptSnap cleans it into readable paragraphs you can copy or download — and makes zero network requests. No account, no server, no tracking. It all runs in your browser.
Hi Product Hunt 👋
I built TranscriptSnap because a friend of mine was made redundant and decided to start a YouTube channel. When I visited him, I found him deleting timestamps out of a video transcript. By hand. One line at a time, about forty minutes in — and not even on his own video. He was studying the ones doing well in his niche, which is exactly what every guide tells a new creator to do.
Nobody mentions the transcript comes out like this:
0:12 so the first thing you want to do is
0:14 [Music]
0:15 so the first thing you want to do is
0:17 open up the settings panel and then
Two-second fragments, a timestamp on every line, the rolling ones repeated, sound cues dropped mid-sentence.
I looked for a tool. Dozens exist — and nearly all wanted an account, an email, and your video link uploaded to their server. For a text-cleaning job. The transcript is already in the page; your browser rendered it. So I built the boring version over a weekend.
TranscriptSnap makes zero network requests. Not one. No server, no account, no API key, no analytics. It reads what your browser already has, cleans it in memory — timestamps stripped, duplicates removed, [Music] gone, fragments joined into paragraphs — and lets you copy it or download a .txt. You can verify all of this: open dev tools, watch the Network tab, use it. The source is public and short.
It's free and staying free. It solves one small problem well.
The hardest bug, if anyone's curious: my extraction got so good at finding transcript rows structurally that it started scooping up the invisible duration labels YouTube adds for screen readers — so every line came out as "0 seconds You think the people hiring you…". Fixing it without also eating captions that genuinely start with a number was the fiddly part.
Happy to answer anything about the build, the privacy design, or where it goes next. And if you've ever tried to get clean text out of a YouTube video, I'd love to know if this saves you the afternoon it saved my friend.
About TranscriptSnap on Product Hunt
“YouTube transcripts, minus the timestamps and the signup ”
TranscriptSnap was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #157 on the daily leaderboard. YouTube's transcript comes out as timestamped, repeated, [Music]-littered fragments. TranscriptSnap cleans it into readable paragraphs you can copy or download — and makes zero network requests. No account, no server, no tracking. It all runs in your browser.
On the analytics side, TranscriptSnap competes within Chrome Extensions, Internet of Things, GitHub and YouTube — topics that collectively have 337.5k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how TranscriptSnap performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted TranscriptSnap?
TranscriptSnap was hunted by tonylab. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of TranscriptSnap including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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