YouTube Chapter Extractor
Free Extract chapter timestamps from any YouTube video instantly. Free YouTube chapter extractor tool for creators and editors.
Why creators choose our YouTube Chapter Extractor
Authored timestamps
Pulled directly from YouTube — exactly what the creator wrote in Studio.
Lightning fast
Chapter list returned in under three seconds for any public video.
Unlimited extractions
No quotas, no daily caps — extract as many videos as you need.
No signup
Anonymous by design. No account, no email, no tracking.
Works everywhere
iPhone, Android, tablet and desktop — all in your browser.
Clear empty state
If a video has no chapters, you see a clear message — no hallucinated data.
How to Extract YouTube Chapters
Copy any public YouTube URL
Open the YouTube video in your browser and copy the URL from the address bar, or use the share button and copy the link.
Paste it into the extractor
Drop the URL into the input above. SnapFetch auto-detects the video ID and prepares the chapter fetch.
Click Extract Chapters
Our servers fetch the chapter list from YouTube's public player metadata in seconds.
Copy the timestamps
Copy the chapter list as plain text for show notes, descriptions or research — or save individual timestamps.
YouTube Chapter Extractor
Chapters have quietly become one of YouTube's most powerful UX features — they let viewers jump straight to the part of a video they care about, dramatically improve average view duration, and give creators a free SEO boost via key-moment surfaces in Google search. The SnapFetch YouTube Chapter Extractor is a free, browser-based tool that pulls the complete chapter list (with timestamps) from any public YouTube video so you can repurpose, research or restructure content faster.
Editors and podcasters use the extracted chapters as the skeleton for podcast show notes, YouTube descriptions on repurposed cuts, blog post outlines and email newsletter recaps. Course creators map competitor chapters to identify gaps in their own curriculum. Agency analysts study how top-performing videos in a niche structure their pacing — how long the hook runs, how much time goes to setup versus payoff, how often chapters break.
The tool fetches chapter data directly from YouTube's public player metadata, which means you get the exact chapter titles and start times as the creator authored them in YouTube Studio. There is no manual transcription, no copy-paste from the description, and no parsing errors. If a video has chapters defined, you get them in seconds.
If a video does not have chapters defined by the creator, the tool tells you clearly — there is no fake data, no guesswork and no AI-generated approximations passed off as real chapters. Only publicly accessible videos are supported; private and unlisted-without-link videos cannot be processed, by design.