YouTube Transcript Cleaner
Clean pasted YouTube transcripts in your browser: remove timestamps, caption cues, repeated lines, filler words, and broken caption spacing.
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So in this video I'm going to show you how I take a messy YouTube transcript and turn it into something useful for notes, clips, and blog outlines. Um the first problem is that YouTube captions are split across tiny lines. the first problem is that YouTube captions are split across tiny lines. And then you have timestamps everywhere, which is useful for review but awful for writing. So the workflow is: clean the transcript, keep the original, and then summarize locally.
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Useful for copied YouTube transcripts, auto captions, and video notes you want to repurpose.
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The cleanup runs in your browser. This page does not send the pasted transcript anywhere.
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Turn fragmented captions into readable paragraphs for summaries, outlines, quotes, and research.
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