Paste a YouTube Link. Get Notes, Flashcards & Quizzes.

We've been listening to what students, researchers, and content creators have been asking for most: the ability to transcribe online videos without downloading anything. Today, that feature is live.

Paste a YouTube link. Paste a Vimeo link. Paste a TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, Loom, or SoundCloud link. TranscriptAI extracts the audio, runs it through our AI transcription engine, and gives you a full transcript with speaker detection, plus structured notes, flashcards, quizzes, and summaries on top.

How It Works

The workflow is dead simple. No browser extensions. No screen recording. No file conversion. Just a URL.

1. 1Go to your dashboard and click Import URL
2. 2Paste any supported video or audio link
3. 3Select your language and hit Transcribe
4. 4TranscriptAI extracts the audio, transcribes it, and generates your study materials

Supported Platforms

We support the major video and audio platforms below. If a page has a public audio or video stream that is not DRM-protected, TranscriptAI can usually transcribe it.

• YouTube: lectures, tutorials, podcasts, vlogs, shorts, live streams
• Vimeo: professional video content, course materials, documentaries
• TikTok: short-form content, educational clips, language learning
• Instagram: reels, IGTV, live recordings
• Twitter / X: video posts, Spaces recordings
• Loom: team walkthroughs, async meetings, product demos
• SoundCloud: podcasts, music analysis, audio interviews
• Twitch: stream VODs, gaming commentary, live lectures
• Facebook: video posts, live streams, group recordings
• Any direct link: MP3, MP4, WAV, or any public audio/video URL

Spotify episodes are DRM-protected, so a Spotify link cannot be imported. If the show offers the episode as a download or RSS audio file, upload that file instead and you get the same transcript and study materials.

Why Students Love This

Think about how you study right now. You find a lecture on YouTube. You watch it once. You try to take notes. You miss things. You rewatch parts. You spend 3 hours on a 1-hour video.

Once the recording is processed, you can read a searchable transcript and create structured notes, flashcards and practice quiz questions from it.

• Paste a Khan Academy lecture → get study notes with every concept explained
• Paste a conference talk → get action items and key takeaways
• Paste a language learning video → get vocabulary lists and flashcards
• Paste a podcast episode → get a full searchable transcript with timestamps

Embedded Video Player

When you transcribe a YouTube video, the original video embeds directly inside your transcript page. You can watch the lecture while reading the transcript side-by-side, with no need to switch tabs. For other platforms, you get a one-click link back to the original source.

Works With All Your Favourite AI Features

URL imports aren't second-class citizens. Every feature that works with uploaded audio works with URL imports too:

• HD Bullet Notes: structured study notes from the recording
• AI Flashcards: spaced repetition cards from the content
• Quiz Mode: auto-generated practice tests
• Full Transcript: searchable, timestamped, speaker-labelled
• Smart Highlights: key points automatically extracted
• Vocabulary Analysis: technical terms explained in context
• Speaker Detection: identify and label speakers via diarization
• Translation: turn a transcript into any of 77 languages

Audio Files Still Fully Supported

URL import is an addition, not a replacement. You can still upload audio and video files directly (MP3, M4A, WAV, AAC, FLAC, OGG, WMA, MP4, WEBM, MOV, AVI or WMV), record live in your browser, or import PDFs for reading mode. Every input method feeds into the same powerful AI pipeline.