Quiz generator from YouTube video
transcripts, without the scraping.
You copy the transcript. We never touch YouTube.
Works on any video whose transcript panel you can open, unlisted lectures included.
Open any question to see the line it came from. Paste 40 characters or more to start.
Copying the transcript takes about ten seconds.
- Open the video on a desktop browser and click the three dots underneath it, or More, depending on the layout you were given.
- Choose Show transcript. A panel opens beside the video with the spoken text in it.
- Open the small menu at the top of that panel and switch timestamps off.
- Click into the panel, select all, copy.
- Paste it into the box above and generate. The first question usually arrives in about a second.
Why we ask you to copy instead of pasting a link.
Every other tool ranking for this search takes a URL. That is more convenient and we are not going to pretend otherwise. We do not, because pulling a video's captions from the outside is a fragile and legally grey thing to do. Tools built that way break whenever YouTube moves an endpoint, and their users find out in the middle of a revision session.
Copying from the panel YouTube itself hands you has none of that exposure. It works on the unlisted recording your professor uploaded. It works on whatever you already have open. It keeps working when the site changes, because nothing on our side depends on the site staying the same. And it means we never fetch, store or process anything from YouTube's servers, which is the boring answer we want to be able to give when somebody asks.
What the quiz itself looks like
Four option multiple choice, written from words that were actually said. Under each question sits the source line: the sentence from the transcript it came from, highlighted inside the text you pasted. A question whose source cannot be found in your text is dropped before you ever see it. That matters more with a transcript than with anything else, because auto captions mangle names and numbers, and you want to catch that yourself rather than memorise it.
It handles
- Any transcript you can copy, from any video
- Auto captions and human written captions alike
- About ten minutes of speech per generation
- Four option questions you answer in the page
- CSV and Anki export, free, signed out
It will not
- Take a YouTube URL
- Watch the video, read slides or see the screen
- Work on a video with no captions at all
- Split a two hour lecture for you. Paste it in parts
- Give you the timestamps back on the questions
Who else ranks here
TubeOnAI and MagicForm run dedicated YouTube to quiz pages. RemNote folds the same job into a notebook. QuizRise and DocsBot take the URL too. If pasting a link is the only step you are prepared to take, one of them is a better fit than us, and that is a fair outcome.
Come back here when you want the questions to point at the line of transcript they came from, and to have no account at the end of it.
Before you copy anything
Can I just paste the video link?
No, and it is on purpose. We fetch nothing from YouTube. Open the transcript panel, select all, copy, paste. It costs you about ten seconds and it does not break the next time YouTube redesigns something.
What if the video has no transcript?
Then this will not work on it. YouTube only shows the transcript button when captions exist, auto generated or otherwise. Nothing we could build on our side changes that.
The transcript is full of timestamps. Does that matter?
Turn them off in the transcript panel menu before you copy. If you forget, it still works. The questions just come out a little noisier.
How long a video can it handle?
Ten thousand characters at a time, which is roughly ten minutes of speech. For a full lecture, paste it in sections and run a quiz on each one.
Do you keep the transcript?
No. It goes to the model that writes the questions and is not saved in our database. The result stays in your browser so a refresh does not lose it.
Next
Or start from the QuizPaste home page, where the same tool takes any text you paste.
QuizPaste is not affiliated with YouTube or Google. We do not connect to YouTube, fetch captions or store video data. You copy the transcript yourself, from the panel YouTube shows you.