/convert/youtube

Save YouTube as Markdown

Save turns any YouTube video into a clean, readable Markdown document — with an AI-summarised transcript, timestamped sections, and key points — in seconds.

Install Save for Chrome — Free See pricing

★★★★★ Chrome Web Store · 3 free saves per month · no account required

What Save captures from YouTube

✓ Full video transcript, cleaned of filler words and speaker noise
✓ AI-generated overview + key points at the top of the file
✓ Timestamped section headings so you can jump back to any moment
✓ Video title, channel, publish date, and duration as Markdown frontmatter
✓ Chapter titles when the video has them

What gets stripped

× Ad breaks and sponsorship segments
× YouTube UI: navigation, recommendations, comments (unless opted-in)
× Repetitive captioning artefacts from auto-generated subtitles

Save uses site-specific AI prompts to tell noise from content. The Markdown you get is optimised for note-taking apps (Obsidian, Notion) and AI context windows (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini).

How to save a YouTube page as Markdown

Step 1

Install Save for Chrome

Grab the extension from the Chrome Web Store. Free, no account needed for the first 3 saves per month.
Step 2

Open any YouTube page

Navigate to the page you want to save. Save auto-detects the site and picks the right extraction rule.
Step 3

Click the Save icon

Clean Markdown, instantly. Copy to clipboard or download as a .md file.

Install Save for Chrome

Example: YouTube → Markdown

Point the extension at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjkBMFhNj_g and the output is a structured Markdown file with frontmatter metadata, clean headings, and lossless content — ready to drop into Obsidian, Notion, or an LLM prompt.

--- youtube.md ---

# YouTube · sample content

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjkBMFhNj_g

> Save turns any YouTube video into a clean, readable Markdown document — with an AI-summarised transcript, timestamped sections, and key points — in seconds.

## What was captured

- Full video transcript, cleaned of filler words and speaker noise

- AI-generated overview + key points at the top of the file

- Timestamped section headings so you can jump back to any moment

FAQ — YouTube to Markdown

Does Save work on long YouTube videos?

Yes. Save handles videos from 30-second Shorts to multi-hour lectures. For longer videos, the AI summary at the top makes the content scannable before the full transcript.