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24 alternatives to watchLess
Search inside any YouTube video by asking a question
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Search any YouTube video like a document.
2019 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Search inside YouTube videos using natural language - GitHub - haltakov/natural-language-youtube-search: Search inside YouTube videos using natural language
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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Extension to search for videos without leaving the page
2016 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Search inside Youtube videos (think Ctrl-F)
2017 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Search and seek to specific words in youtube videos
2021 · moizahmedd.github.io · its alternatives →
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Advanced search for YouTube videos with filters for duration, date, title, and more. Find exactly what you
Apr 2026 · playlists.at · its alternatives →
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Search YouTube transcripts without CTRL+F
2024 · youtubetranscriptsearch.com · its alternatives →
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JumprAI▲157Find any moment inside YouTube videos with AI search
Feb 2026 · jumprai.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Search any word inside YouTube videos & jump to that moment
Aug 2026 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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YouFilter▲67Free chrome extension to filter YouTube search results
2021 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Watch your YouTube homefeed without the distractions
2022 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Chat and summarize YouTube videos
2024 · paperguide.ai · its alternatives →
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Search YouTube without stopping the video
2016 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Control YouTube from anywhere in your browser.
2020 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Search multiple social platforms in one click
2023 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Search for a text in a youtube video and jump to that part.
2018 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Strength your video watching
Nov 2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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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 · its alternatives →
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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 · its alternatives →
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Hello Hacker News community, I've been developing a simple Chrome extension designed to assist journalists and researchers or learners in their YouTube investigations. You can swiftly identify specific segments within a video using semantic searches, powered by the OpenAI API. This transforms hours of potential scrubbing into moments of precision seeking. Whether you're sifting through extensive interviews, press conferences, and event footage on YouTube, or you require a quote from a video source, This extension is a handy tool. It also aids in quickly fact-checking statements made in…
2023 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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Watch eSports without spoilers
2022 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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