Youtube Word Search

An extension that lets you search for words in a youtube video, and seeks to that timestamp

How it works

• Once you go on a youtube video, a request is sent to the server to get a transcript of the video
• The server returns a dictionary where each word is mapped to a list of timestamps where that word occurs
• As the user presses the shortcut option/alt + f, a search bar is opened
• As user begins types a word and presses enter, the youtube video is forwared/seeks to the timestamp at whichever index the user is currently on
• Demo on https://moizahmedd.github.io/youtubesearch

Todo

• Determine when you're on a video
• Get transcript of video given the video ID
• Write a function that will given a word and transcript get a list of timestamps
• Write a function that will seek a youtube video to a timestamp
• Searchbar + enter + shortcut logic
• Reset transcript/search on new vids
• Switch to indices starting at 1
• Option F to toggle search bar off
• Test going away from youtube, going to home page etc

Development Usage

Client (extension)

• git clone https://github.com/MoizAhmedd/youtube-video-search.git to your local machine
• chrome://extensions in Chrome and Turn on Developer Mode
• Select Load Unpacked and navigate to the youtube-video-search directory

Server

• pip install -r requirements.txt
• Install youtube-dl, tutorial here https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
• Change the endpoint in background.js to http://localhost:5000
• Run server: python app.py

Possible Pull Requests

• Remove preposition words from the mapping (words like "of", "as", "on")
• Add support for full phrases
• Add option to download transcript with the searched words highlighted
• Add support for videos that only have auto-generated captions
• Show search bar on full screen/theater mode