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Seek - Ctrl+F for YouTube videos
Search what was said. Jump instantly to the exact moment.
Seek is a Chrome extension for YouTube watch pages. Ctrl+K opens a search over the transcript so you can jump to where something was said. Think Ctrl+F for spoken content. YouTube’s native transcript panel works, but it’s slow to scan. If you’re halfway through a forty-minute talk and want the bit where someone mentions “context window”, you’re scrolling a wall of text or scrubbing the timeline and hoping. I kept doing that on tutorial videos and conference talks, and I wanted a faster way in.
I built a command palette that overlays the player. Open it with Ctrl+K or the extension icon, search the transcript, and the player seeks to the match. Results show the matching line with surrounding context so you can tell similar hits apart.
It's solving a problem for me, but if it saves you some time and earns your stars, I'd love some reviews.
Does it handle videos that have auto-generated captions, or does it only work when there's an actual transcript uploaded by the creator?
This is exactly what I needed for long tutorial videos. Searched "regex" in a coding talk and it jumped right to the explanation. Way faster than scrubbing.
the ctrl+k shortcut is a nice touch, feels right at home next to other browser shortcuts and way faster than scrolling through the native transcript.
Does it work on videos that have auto-generated captions but no proper transcript uploaded by the creator, or does it need a real transcript file to index?
does it pick up the transcript automatically or do you have to manually paste it in for each video
About Seek - Ctrl+F for YouTube videos on Product Hunt
“Search what was said. Jump instantly to the exact moment.”
Seek - Ctrl+F for YouTube videos was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 7 comments, placing #160 on the daily leaderboard. Seek is a Chrome extension for YouTube watch pages. Ctrl+K opens a search over the transcript so you can jump to where something was said. Think Ctrl+F for spoken content. YouTube’s native transcript panel works, but it’s slow to scan. If you’re halfway through a forty-minute talk and want the bit where someone mentions “context window”, you’re scrolling a wall of text or scrubbing the timeline and hoping. I kept doing that on tutorial videos and conference talks, and I wanted a faster way in.
Seek - Ctrl+F for YouTube videos was featured in Chrome Extensions (52.7k followers), Open Source (68.6k followers), GitHub (41.3k followers), YouTube (16.9k followers) and Search (18.1k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 58.8k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Seek - Ctrl+F for YouTube videos?
Seek - Ctrl+F for YouTube videos was hunted by Ben Northmore. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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