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Products that do what Ctrl-F Video – Search for spoken words in a YouTube video does

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   CTRL-F for YouTube Videos▲137

   This is a small project i made years ago and updated to whisper last year, i still use it from time to time and thought it might be useful to others, or just put the idea out there for someone better than me to make a better implementation!

   2024 · github.com

2. 2SI
   Search inside YouTube videos using natural language queries▲264

   2021 · github.com

3. 3LS
   Lexika – Search Engine for Spoken Words/Phrases in YouTube Videos▲85

   2015 · lexika.io

4. 4SF
   Search for words inside of YouTube videos▲32

   2015 · scan.video

5. 5VS
   VideoMentions – Search YouTube based on the spoken words in videos▲295

   2022 · videomentions.com

6. 6YS
   YTFind - search YouTube dialogue▲7

   2014 · ytfind.com

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   Spottr▲138

   Ctrl+F for videos

   Oct 2025

8. 8SY
   Search YouTube for specific words or phrases▲6

   2018 · wordhunt.xyz

9. 9CF
   Cloujera – fine-grained search for spoken words in Coursera's videos▲25

   2014 · cloujera.clojurecup.com

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    Youtube Transcript Search▲142

    Search YouTube transcripts without CTRL+F

    2024

11. 11YS
    YouTube Search Fixer – Firefox addon that removes unrelated suggestions▲134

    2020 · addons.mozilla.org

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    JuliusJS▲94

    A speech recognition library for the web

    2014

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    Spottr▲117

    The real Ctrl F for videos

    2024

14. 14YD
    YouTube-dl wrapper with added features to easily manage YouTube audio▲91

    2020 · github.com

15. 15AA
    An Alternative Web Interface for YouTube▲110

    2016 · essentialyoutube.com

16. 16SS
    Semantic search for video▲77

    Hello HN Over the New Year's break, I created semanticvideosearch.com. This can search any video based on meaning and context. I would love to get your feedback on it. What should I change and what can be improved? The preprocessed videos can be search very quickly, while the youtube video links take some time (yt videos also have a upper duration limit due to compute issues). I intend to add search based on the frames of the video soon. I would love to know your thoughts on the demo and any suggestions for improvements. Thanks! PS: the inspiration to create this was to get the 2 mins of…

    2023 · semanticvideosearch.com

17. 17VA
    VidDistill – Automated YouTube Video Summarization Using Captions▲69

    2018 · vid-distill.herokuapp.com

18. 18RA
    Read any YouTube video with punctuations added using AI in the browser▲7

    2023 · appblit.com

19. 19DW
    Discover what songs were used in YouTube videos▲69

    2015 · mooma.sh

20. 20CY
    ClipBase - YouTube Full Text Search – Search videos by words spoken▲17

    2023 · clipbase.xyz

21. 21DA
    Deebrief, a better way to comment on YouTube videos▲27

    2014 · deebrief.com

22. 22AA
    Automating a Reddit Text-to-Speech YouTube Channel▲14

    2020 · github.com

23. 23SB
    Search Bar for YouTube Transcripts▲8

    Hi HN! Using Ctrl+F on YouTube Transcripts doesn't have the best UI/UX, so I built a chrome extension to inject a input search box that filters for any queries. YouTube actually has this feature for a few videos (ex: https://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAHbLRjF0vo) for years now. I'm not sure why they haven't rolled it out for all videos. I didn't want to wait. The extension will only inject it's own search box if the video does not already have one on YouTube. I tried styling it to look similar to YouTube's design. Indexing and querying rules follow the…

    2024 · youtubetranscriptsearch.com

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    Find in Video▲3

    Search any word inside YouTube videos & jump to that moment

    26d ago · chromewebstore.google.com

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