About FastTube

FastTube turns YouTube videos into articles you can read. Get the information you need quickly as text, and find it by search, without playing a video to the end.

What you want to know is inside a video

Expert explanations, first-hand interviews, reports from the field: YouTube now holds a great deal of valuable information that you cannot find anywhere else. But you cannot tell what a video contains until you play it. Finding out where your question is discussed, or whether the video answers it at all, takes time.

Videos as readable articles

FastTube writes out what was said in a video and organizes it into an article with headings and paragraphs that follows the discussion. Even an hour-long video can be understood in a few minutes. Rather than extracting only the key points, it keeps the arguments, examples and qualifications. When you want every word, the paragraph transcript and the full captions are there to read.

Search for what you need

Articles and transcripts are searchable in full across channels. Search reaches what was actually said in a video, which a title alone cannot tell you. Enter a keyword to find the videos that cover what you need, and the passages where they do.

Check the original video

Articles carry the timestamps of the statements they are based on. Follow a timestamp to play that moment in the original video and hear it in the speaker's own words. When tone and nuance matter, watch the original video.