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Re:Show HN: Search Bar for YouTube Transcripts by tobeagram on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @12:19PM (#40858102)
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?

Re:Show HN: Search Bar for YouTube Transcripts by katella on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @12:50PM (#40858354)
Some new features could be:

- add it to other sites that have videos

- improve search with AI.

Some performance updates:

- parse transcripts from request, not the html

- filter using overlay (inject my own html) instead of mutating the DOM (loops through all elements and changes display attribute)

Re:Show HN: Search Bar for YouTube Transcripts by katella on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @12:37PM (#40858248)
Yes, do you have any suggestions?
Re:Show HN: Search Bar for YouTube Transcripts by tobeagram on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @02:17PM (#40859119)
To be honest I'd keep it simple and leave it as is. Just improve the landing page / chrome extension screenshots to have a more obvious value proposition / style. For me the video fails to load on your landing page.
Re:Show HN: Search Bar for YouTube Transcripts by katella on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @03:26PM (#40859699)
I agree, tested it on hour long videos with 800+ transcript tokens (separate timestamp). Was happy with performance.

Compressed video on landing page now, ty! :)