youtube-transcript-minimal
A minimalist YouTube transcript downloader made for the agent era — one click gets any video’s captions into Codex or Muse. No popups, ads, accounts, or third-party servers.
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GITHUB · launched Sep 18, 2026 · 11 upvotes (top 68%) · 0 views
Niche: audio and video transcription tools · 195 launches, 16 in the last 7 days ▼ -27% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- captions
- chrome-extension
- srt
- transcript
- vtt
- youtube
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More like this: all 195 launches in audio and video transcription tools →
Could you build this?
Yes Extracting YouTube transcripts without third-party servers relies on well-known open-source methods or scraping the public timedtext endpoint, which is easy to script.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 301 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #229 of 302 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 315 days after the earliest competitor.
- YouTube Transcript Exporter · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- YouTube Transcript Extractor · ph · 2026-10-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- YouTube Transcript & Summary Generator · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- YoutubeTranscriptPro · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- YouTube Transcript Tool · ph · 2026-03-26 · 202 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- VideoScript · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- YouTube Transcript HQ · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Transcript Extract · ph · 2026-10-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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