Hi HN!
Using Ctrl+F on YouTube Transcripts doesn't have the best UI/UX, so I built a chrome extension to inject a input search box that filters for any queries.
YouTube actually has this feature for a few videos (ex: https://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAHbLRjF0vo) for years now. I'm not sure why they haven't rolled it out for all videos. I didn't want to wait.
The extension will only inject it's own search box if the video does not already have one on YouTube. I tried styling it to look similar to YouTube's design.
Indexing and querying rules follow the newest Lunr.js rules.
Very cool. Does this also generate the transcripts or only add search for videos with existing transcripts?
Does anyone know why YouTube hasn't made this a full feature? Corporate bureaucracy?
This is such a good idea that's simple and well executed. The number of times, I've had to sift through YouTube videos to find the bit that's relevant... awesome work!
Have you got any further plans to improve it, or just want to keep it simple?