YouTube Transcripts in Clean JSON

YouTube Transcripts in Clean JSON

Most information in a video is hard to get. You cannot search for a spoken word or copy a quote from a speaker. A video transcript makes this possible by turning speech into text. This is a big help for anyone doing research, analysis, or just trying to find a specific part of a video.

Most web scrapers do not handle video well. Tools like Firecrawl are built for text on regular webpages. They are not designed to look for and pull out YouTube's transcript files. People usually have to find special plugins or run their own code, which can be a pain and often results in messy text files without timestamps.

We built a tool for this right into the NeatJ Browser.

When you paste a YouTube link, the browser loads the video on one side and the full transcript on the other. You can see all the text and timestamps right away.

• Full Timestamps: Every line of text has its exact start and end time.
• Interactive Transcript: You can click any line in the text to jump the video to that moment.
• Timeline Selector: You can drag a selector on the video's timeline to export only the part you need.
• Multilingual: If the video has captions in other languages, you can choose any of them.

NeatJ exports your selection as a structured JSON file. This format is valuable because it's clean and organized. Each line of text is grouped with its own start and end time. This is useful for researchers, data analysis, or for feeding clean data into an AI system (RAG). Most general web scrapers do not offer this.