How to Download and Edit YouTube Video Transcripts for Blog Posts (Full Transcript)

Speaker 1: For any YouTube video, you can download a written transcript or the subtitles of the video. This is especially useful, for example, if you want to study what someone is saying, or you want to edit your own video into a blog post. So let me show you an example using one of my own videos. And here it is. I just uploaded this video a few hours ago, and the transcript is already available. It only takes YouTube a few hours to have their artificial intelligence sense into what the person is saying and create a transcript. So when you go to any YouTube video, scroll down, and underneath the video... By the way, I'm assuming you are using a laptop or a desktop computer to do this. Scroll down, and then click the three dots underneath the video. Three dots there, and then click on Open Transcript. Alright, so here's what you do. If you want to, for example, edit this into a blog post, you want to toggle so that the timestamps are no longer there. And you do this by clicking the three dots here. Once you've opened the transcript, click on the three dots here inside the transcript, and click on Toggle Timestamps. Alright, now that the timestamps are gone, what I'd like to do is I'd like to scroll down to the very bottom. So quickly scroll down to the very bottom. And then, once I'm at the very bottom, I click and select going upwards. I find that this is easier and has fewer mouse errors if I do it from the bottom up instead of from the top down. You can experiment yourself, but anyway, try that. And once you have selected it, what you need to do then is to do Command-C on your keyboard. If you're on a Mac or on Windows, it's Control-C to copy it to your invisible clipboard. And then open up a new tab. And what I like to do is use Google Docs. So I'm going to type in doc.new. And in case you don't know, that automatically opens up a new Google document in your private Google Drive. So now that I have copied the transcript, I'm going to click on Edit, Paste Without Formatting, so that it's just plain text. And there it is. There's the entire video transcript based on YouTube's artificial intelligence. It's not going to be perfect, but it's certainly a great start to editing this into a blog post. Alright, I hope that's helpful, and I'll see you in the next video.