Polyscribe is a chrome extension I built for extracting and searching the transcript of Youtube videos. Its goal is to let you easily and effortlessly extract passages from Youtube videos into your notetaking app, as well as search the transcript to locate an interesting passage you had in mind or want to revisit.

As a chrome extension, you never have to leave the video's page to extract some part of the transcript. You just pop the extension open while the video is playing, and Polyscribe will bring up the transcript at the precise timestamp the video was on when you activated the extension. From there, you can easily copy any snippet, which when pasted will not only paste the copied transcript text, but Polyscribe will also include a timestamped attribution link at the end of the text, so that when you revisit the quote in the future, you can go straight to the source.

As part of this project, I built and deployed a FastAPI api that Polyscribe uses to extract and search the transcripts of YouTube videos.