These websites and browser extensions let you get transcripts from YouTube videos for free. Reading transcripts (subtitles) is an effective method for analyzing long videos. Some of the most useful tools include: YT Scribe — A website and browser extension that lets you generate easily readable, time-coded transcripts of YouTube videos from URLs. YouTube Summary with ChatGPT — A free Chrome extension that extracts subtitles and generates concise summaries of YouTube videos with ChatGPT. Youtube Transcript AI Summary — A free extension that lets you download transcripts and generate different summaries using various prompts in ChatGPT.