About DownSub

The fastest way to download, transcribe, translate, and summarize subtitles from any video platform.

What is DownSub?

DownSub is an online toolkit that lets you extract subtitles and transcripts from videos across the web — no software to install and no account required to get started.

Paste a video link and get clean, ready-to-use subtitles, transcripts, translations, and summaries in seconds.

Supported platforms

We support YouTube, Viki, Vimeo, Viu, WeTV, iQIYI, Dailymotion, Bilibili, and many more platforms.

Whether the video has manual captions or auto-generated ones, DownSub helps you capture the text you need.

What you can do

Download subtitles in popular formats, generate full transcripts, translate captions into dozens of languages, and summarize long videos into concise key points.

Power users can process playlists in batch and automate everything through our API.

Our mission

We believe the knowledge locked inside video should be easy to read, search, translate, and reuse.

DownSub is built to make video content accessible to students, creators, researchers, businesses, and developers everywhere.