What Is a YouTube to Quiz Generator?
A YouTube to quiz generator turns what is said in a video into quiz questions. This one works from the video's transcript: you copy it from YouTube's “Show transcript” panel, or upload the .srt or .vtt subtitle file, and the AI picks out the key concepts, facts and arguments, then writes multiple-choice or true/false questions with the answer and a one-sentence explanation. Teachers and students use it to turn educational videos into checks for flipped classrooms, homework and self-study.
Writing a quiz from a video usually means watching the whole thing, taking notes and drafting questions by hand. Here you paste the transcript instead — about fifteen seconds of copying — and get a quiz in under a minute, at the difficulty, grade level and language you choose. It does not accept a bare YouTube link: YouTube often blocks transcript requests that come from servers, so this page takes the words rather than the address. That suits flipped classrooms, where students watch at home and show what they understood before class.
Why you paste the transcript instead of the link
A YouTube link alone will not work here, and it is worth being straight about why rather than letting you discover it. YouTube often blocks transcript requests that come from data centres, which is where web applications run, ours included. Some tools work around that with residential proxies or paid transcript services; we have not built that, so this box takes the words rather than the address. The upside is that it works with any transcript you can open on YouTube, and with a downloaded .srt or .vtt subtitle file too.
Getting the transcript takes about fifteen seconds. Open the video, click the three dots under the title, choose 'Show transcript', and a panel opens beside the video. Select the whole panel, copy, and paste it here. It will arrive full of timestamps, and possibly '[Music]' and speaker labels — paste it anyway, because all of that is stripped before the model reads it and the broken half-lines are stitched back into sentences first. One caveat worth knowing: automatic captions carry no punctuation and mishear proper nouns, so a name that looks wrong in a question probably was wrong in the transcript. Skim before you hand it out.
Everything here runs without an account, three a day, and nothing you paste is stored. For finer control over the questions themselves — the number of options, the Bloom level, and a note on the tempting wrong answer — the MCQ generator takes the same transcript text and adds a printable answer key.