YouTube Transcript Search Chrome Extension Analysis
Web Scraping & Data ExtractionChrome extension ID: eeebipnojmgobognppffkenhdoidendi
This tool extracts and compiles transcripts from YouTube channels or playlists into searchable JSON datasets. Users can perform complex queries—including proximity and wildcard searches—to locate specific timestamps across a large volume of video content.
Overview
Installs
2K+
Rating
★ 3.4
39 reviews
Languages
1 locales
Includes English (United States)
Market analysis
Review-backed positioning, friction, and market signals for this Chrome extension.
Macro category
Web Scraping & Data Extraction
Pricing friction
Low review signal
Complaint intensity
High review signal
Listing positioning
The extension is positioned as a powerful tool for power-users to search through large collections of YouTube transcripts at scale. It offers advanced search syntax and the ability to export results as TSV files for external analysis.
Inferred product pattern
Maintenance-dependent utility that relies on scraping YouTube internal APIs, prone to breakage upon UI updates.
Review-backed pain points
The tool frequently fails to initiate or retrieve transcripts from YouTube, leading to extended wait times without output, blank files, or complete software inactivity.
Observed feature gaps
The extension struggles with consistent compatibility regarding YouTube's UI changes, specifically in the 'Videos' tab and with date-range selection features.
- YouTube researchers
- content analysts
- video creators
- Channel-wide transcript searching
- Extracting specific timestamps from video archives
- Exporting transcript search data for spreadsheet analysis
- High utility for long-term power users
- Effective search syntax
- Valuable for deep-dive research
- Frequent functional breakage
- Inability to extract transcripts from the 'Videos' tab
- Hanging or unresponsive program state
- Outdated instructional videos
- Performance complaints detected
- No direct pricing friction observed; the extension appears free to use with an optional donation link.
Support
Users express frustration that the tool is no longer maintained to keep pace with YouTube interface updates, causing it to stop working.
Reliability
High incidence of reliability complaints; users report the program hangs indefinitely, fails to pull transcripts, or returns blank outputs.
Privacy
No specific privacy or security concerns were raised in the provided review data.
- Free usage observed
- No account requirement observed
- Free plan or free usage claimed
Store listing facts
- Screenshots: 3
- Videos: 1
- Languages: 1
- Developer contact
- Version: 1.16
- Size: 48.05KiB
- Last updated:
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