Is Download YouTube Transcript safe?
Download YouTube Transcript sends YouTube transcripts, video metadata, and activity events to ytranscript.app and Amplitude.
When you generate a transcript or summary, the extension reads YouTube page metadata and captions, then posts the video ID, title, language options, timestamped transcript text, and summary request to api.ytranscript.app. It also sends analytics events for transcript and summary actions to Amplitude with the YouTube URL, video ID, selected language, browser/device details, IP setting, and a persistent app ID.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.1.0. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Read and change your data on www.youtube.com
https://www.youtube.com/*
Read and change your data on youtube.com
https://youtube.com/*
Read and change your data on youtu.be
https://youtu.be/*
Read and change your data on api.ytranscript.app
https://api.ytranscript.app/*
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Show a panel beside the page
sidePanel
Store data in your browser
storage
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Download YouTube Transcript contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.
- api2.amplitude.comwidely used
Download YouTube Transcript sends data to api2.amplitude.com. A widely used service: 41 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- api.ytranscript.app
Download YouTube Transcript sends data to api.ytranscript.app. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.