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YouTube to SRT Downloader

Download the subtitles from any YouTube video as a ready-to-use SRT file. Whether the video has human-written captions or YouTube’s auto-generated ones, you get a clean, timestamped .srt you can drop into any video editor, media player, or re-upload. Free, no sign-up, no watermark.

Drag & drop a file hereor click to browse from your device

What you can download from YouTube

  • Human-written (closed) captions
  • YouTube auto-generated captions
  • English subtitle tracks with original timestamps
  • Talks, tutorials, lectures and music videos

YouTube to SRT in practice

YouTube to SRT downloads a video's subtitles as a proper .srt file with timestamps intact. That is the format editors, players and translation tools actually accept — VLC picks it up automatically, Premiere and Resolve import it as a caption track, and subtitle editors open it directly.

Paste the video URL and you get the English track, or the video’s own language when it has no English; both creator-written captions and YouTube's auto-generated ones can be pulled. Auto-captions are a starting point, not a finished product — expect to fix names, punctuation and the odd mangled phrase before you publish anything with them attached.

Why use LinksConverter for YouTube downloads

  • Fast cloud pipeline
  • Virus-scanned up to 1 GB
  • Deleted after 2 hours (longer for very large files or with a pass)
  • No sign-up, no watermark

How it works

How to download YouTube videos as SRT

  1. Copy the YouTube link

    Open the YouTube video on its own page and tap Share → Copy link, so the link points at that one video rather than a feed or profile.

  2. Paste the URL into the converter

    Paste the link into the input box on this page. The converter automatically recognises YouTube URLs.

  3. Start the SRT export

    Click Convert. Our cloud worker fetches it from YouTube and packages it as SRT.

  4. Download the SRT file

    When the export finishes you get a download link that works for anyone who has it until the file is deleted. The file is deleted from our servers automatically after 2 hours (longer for very large files or with a pass).

YouTube to SRT — Frequently asked questions

Then there is nothing to download — the tool only works on videos that have subtitles or auto-captions available. Most talks, tutorials and music videos do, so it is worth a try.

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