YouTube Word Searcher

An extension for searching for words in YouTube videos

What is YouTube Word Searcher?

"YouTube Word Searcher" is a Chrome extension designed to improve the experience of navigating through YouTube videos by allowing users to search for specific words within a video's content. Upon clicking a button that appears above the video, users are granted access to a search bar where they can input words or phrases. The tool not only locates these terms but also allows viewers to skip directly to the timestamps where they are mentioned. An added autosearch function alerts users to their preset keywords in newly loaded pages. With version 2.0, this functionality extends to non-English videos, broadening the extension's utility to a wider audience.

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Extension stats

By: Grondo

View on Chrome Web Store

Users: 1,000+

Rating: 4.62 (13)

Version: 2.1.2 (Last updated: 2024-08-07)

Creation date: 2022-07-26

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Size: 38.96K

Email: ex*****@gorah.site

Ranking

# 25234 ▼ 73

Other rankings

#757 in Just for Fun #183 in video keyword 77 ▼ 8 #221 in youtube keyword 89 ▼ 13

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Extension summary

Analyze keywords

This extension can help you search for words in YouTube videos and jump directly to the respective timestamp in the video.

A button will appear above YouTube videos, and if you click it, you will get access to a search input.

There is an autosearch feature that enables you to set words to be searched on every page, which if found will trigger the extension to notify you (by changing the YWS button to green).

New in version 2.0: Non english videos are now supported.

User reviews

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Pros

Easy to download, install, and use
Helps search specific discussions in YouTube videos
Works well for videos without transcripts
Supports videos in Portuguese
Great for finding information in old YouTube videos

Cons

Doesn't work with auto-generated subtitles
Only searches uploader-provided closed captions
Button is too colorful and distracting

Most mentioned

Works well
Very helpful for searching
Nice interface but distracting button

Recent reviews

Dilka Hansinie, 2024-08-06

"YCS - YouTube Comment Search", an once amazing extension, stopped working & being updated so I needed a substitute, and this one serves as a good one for the transcripts/captions side of things for now. It's only problem so far is prioritization. If you are watching a video that has both closed captions provided by the video uploader AND auto-generated closed captions, it will ONLY search the close captions provided by the video uploader and NOT the auto-generated ones. This can present a problem if the closed captions provided by the uploader has errors or different words from the auto-generated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUIyMdqPGZQ In this example, the official Closed Captions by the uploader fails to subtitle 4:34 - 4:53. Therefore, if you were to search the word "wrong", it will not show up at all in the search, even though the auto-generated closed captions has it. Be mindful when using searches!