Video Search

During my military service, I took Stanford CS229 Lectures online. It was a pain when I had to scroll through the entire video to find a specific part of the lecture where the professor said a specific term. My friend and I decided to start a small project to help us finish the lectures before our ETS.

We used JavaScript mostly to fetch YouTube transcripts, where a simple search algorithm is applied to look up the user’s input. The users can also look up transcripts from the supported languages which are listed as shown in the left figure. The search box takes the user inputs and gives a list with links to specific times in the given YouTube video.

Given that it’s been 3 years since we’ve published the Chrome extension, it’s surprising to see that an average of 70 people use it every day.

Check it out here: Link to Chrome Store Or check out the code here: Link to GitHub