Save time. Yank 5 lines from anything.

Captions cost nothing. A source with its own captions or text is read at any length. Where yank has to transcribe the audio itself, it stops at 2 hours. Files — PDF, DOCX, TXT, MD, RTF, recordings as MP3, WAV or M4A, and caption files as SRT or VTT — are read on your own device and are never published; only the text they contain (a recording's transcript, made in your browser) is sent to Yank. See Drop a file. A PDF link is different: a PDF anyone can open on the web is read like an article, gets a permanent page, and every line cites the page it is on. Not yet: Twitch VODs (no public transcript path), Vimeo and Dailymotion (on hold), Rumble and LinkedIn (their terms require written permission first), and Google Drive links (download the file and drop it instead). Not ever: Netflix and the other subscription services, where what is said exists only inside a subscriber’s player.

Songs. Paste a song or music video from YouTube and yank opens it for reading instead of choosing five: the words as the recording is heard, with your language beside them in any of 19 languages, and the lines you choose become a card you can share. The full lyrics are never published as a page. Try it with a song.

Languages. Yank keeps a source in its own language, including a source that switches between two, and the five lines it returns are in that language. There is nothing to choose.

Every source with at least one yank. Each page lists the lines the editor kept, newest first, with its own RSS feed.

Yank is curated. We favour sources with editorial voice: writers, interviewers and shows that put a discernible person on the page. The filter is craft, not ideology.