# YouTube Transcript Copy

> YouTube Transcript Copier adds a convenient "Copy Transcript" button directly to YouTube video pages, making it effortless to extract and copy video transcripts for research, note-taking, content creation, or accessibility purposes.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/youtube-transcript-copy](https://chrome-stats.com/d/youtube-transcript-copy)

## Overview

- **ID:** `youtube-transcript-copy`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Dislike Lever
- **Category:** other
- **Daily users:** 2,768
- **Weekly downloads:** 177
- **Rating:** 4.84 / 5 (32 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.0.8
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-04
- **First published:** 2025-06-12
- **Size:** 28 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtube-transcript-copy/)

## Description

**YouTube Transcript Copy** adds a convenient one-click Copy Transcript button directly on YouTube video pages. It eliminates the tedious steps of opening the transcript panel, selecting all text, and cleaning up formatting—simply click to copy the transcript for your notes, research, or content ideas.

**Features & benefits:** Includes options to add the video title, timestamps, or format the transcript into a single paragraph, delivering a clean, fast, and accessible transcription workflow for research, education, content creation, and accessibility needs.

## Rankings

- #1,769 — Overall
- #271 — Other extensions
- #13 — purpose
- #45 — script
- #133 — youtube
- #179 — function

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `clipboardWrite`

### Host permissions

- `*://*.youtube.com/*`

### Content script matches

- `*.youtube.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Request access to the following domains: youtube.com
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

User reviews consistently praise YouTube Transcript Copy for quickly copying transcripts with a simple, one-click button. It’s described as clean and lightweight, with minimal permissions (only access to youtube.com) and reliable performance, including compatibility with Zen browser. Reviewers also highlight its usefulness for summarization workflows and its ability to complement existing AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude). A single report notes occasional trouble obtaining a transcript. Overall, the addon is valued for simplicity, speed, and a focused feature set.

### Pros

- Easy, one-click copying of YouTube transcripts.
- Clean, lightweight design with no bloat and minimal permissions (only access to youtube.com).
- Reliable and fast performance with a single-click copy and cross-browser compatibility (including Zen browser).
- Helpful for summarization workflows and speeds up transcription-based tasks, especially when used with AI tools like ChatGPT or Claude.
- Generally focused feature set that stays true to its core purpose.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/youtube-transcript-copy)