YouTube Script Copy

Copy any YouTube video's full transcript with one click.

Install

Install from the Chrome Web Store — one click.

Or load it from source:

git clone https://github.com/junyjeon/youtube-script-copy.git

chrome://extensions → Developer mode ON → Load unpacked → select the cloned folder.

Usage

1. On any YouTube video, click the extension icon
2. Pick Copy (with timestamps) or Copy Text Only (plain paragraph)
3. Paste with Ctrl+V

Features

• Multilingual UI — works in Korean, English, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, French, and every other YouTube UI language
• Virtual-scroll aware — captures the full transcript of long videos without gaps
• Auto-recovery — toggles the panel to retry when YouTube's transcript API is slow or rate-limited
• Privacy first — no background scripts, no tracking, runs only when you click the icon
• Open source — every line lives in this repo

Scope

• Supported: standard YouTube videos with captions (manual or auto-generated)
• Not supported: YouTube Shorts, live streams, videos with captions fully disabled by the creator

Permissions

Permission	Purpose
activeTab	Access the current YouTube tab
clipboardWrite	Write the transcript to the clipboard
scripting	Inject the transcript-extraction script

No data is sent to any external server.

Contributing

Bug reports and feature requests go to GitHub Issues. Pull requests welcome.

License

MIT