SRT Caption Generator
Paste a YouTube link and download a ready-to-use .srt subtitle file, timings intact, for any video editor. Free, no signup.
Works with watch links, youtu.be short links, and Shorts.
Free, no signup. Ready to drop into any video editor.
Paste a video link and a ready-to-use .srt subtitle file will appear here.
Three steps, under 5 minutes.
Paste the link
Any public YouTube video that has captions, including Shorts.
Check the file
See every caption line with its timings before you download anything.
Download the .srt
Drop it straight into Premiere, Final Cut, DaVinci, CapCut, or a re-upload.
What an SRT file is, and why editors want one
SubRip, or .srt, is the plain-text subtitle format every video tool understands. Each entry is a number, a start and end timecode, and the line of text. Because the timings live in the file, an editor can place every caption exactly where it belongs without you touching a timeline.
That is what separates a subtitle file from a transcript. A transcript is text you read. An SRT is text that knows when to appear, which is why it is the format for burning captions into a video, uploading captions alongside one, or translating a video into another language.
Auto-generated captions need a proofread
The tool tells you whether the captions were written by a human or generated automatically by YouTube, and the difference matters more in a subtitle file than in a transcript. Auto captions rarely punctuate, frequently mangle names and technical terms, and sometimes break lines mid-phrase.
In a transcript you can skim past that. Burned into a video, every error is on screen for the viewer to read. So if the file is auto-generated, open it and fix the names and the punctuation before you publish. It takes a few minutes and it is the difference between captions that help and captions that distract.
Why captions are not optional any more
The large majority of social video is watched without sound, often in places where turning it on is not an option. A video without captions is a video most of its audience will scroll past, regardless of how good the content is. Captions are not an accessibility extra, they are how the video gets watched at all.
They also help people who need them to follow along at all, and they give platforms text to index, which is how a video becomes findable by search. One file, three separate reasons to bother.
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How do I download subtitles from a YouTube video?
Paste the video's URL above and click Get the .srt file. You'll see every caption line with its timings, then you can download a standard .srt file or copy it to your clipboard. No signup and no extension needed.
What is an SRT file used for?
It's the standard subtitle format. Use it to burn captions into a video in an editor like Premiere, Final Cut, DaVinci Resolve, or CapCut, to upload captions alongside a video on any platform, or as the starting point for translating a video into another language.
Does it work on every video?
It works on any public YouTube video that has captions, which is most of them. It can't produce a file for a video with captions disabled, or for a private, deleted, or age-restricted one, and it will tell you which of those happened rather than failing silently.
Can I use captions from someone else's video?
Captions are published by the creator and the words are theirs, so use this on your own videos, or credit the source. Downloading a subtitle file to study or quote from is normal, but republishing someone else's video with their captions as your own content isn't.
How is this different from CaptureFlow?
This tool gives you a subtitle file. CaptureFlow takes the same video and turns it into finished posts, clips, carousels, and quote images in your voice, then schedules them across every platform.
Captions are step one. We do the rest.
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