Every YouScript feature

Reading the transcript

The card sits at the top of the sidebar on every watch page.

• Loads automatically when a video opens (you can turn this off and press “Load transcript” instead)
• Shows every line with its timestamp, in the order it is spoken
• Shows how many lines the transcript has
• Highlights the line being spoken and scrolls with the video
• Pauses auto-scroll while you scroll yourself, then resumes
• Collapses to a single bar when you do not need it
• Follows you from video to video without a page reload
• Says so plainly when a video has no transcript

Finding things

Skip to the part you care about.

• Search box that filters the lines as you type
• Every word you type must match, in any order
• Ignores capital letters and accents
• Shows “3 of 120 lines” while searching
• Click a line, or its timestamp, to jump the video there
• Jumping also resumes playback if the video was paused

Languages

The Language menu lists what YouTube itself offers for that video.

• The video’s own caption languages, by name (for example “English”, “German (Germany)”)
• Automatic captions, listed as “auto-generated”
• Around 150 more languages under “Translated by YouTube”
• Same timestamps in every language
• “Original” switches straight back
• Search, copy and download all use the language you are viewing
• Hidden when the video offers only one language

Copying and saving

Get the text out of YouTube and into your own tools.

• Copy the whole transcript with one click
• Timestamps on or off, for plain notes or for reference
• .txt download: plain text, named after the video
• .srt download: subtitle file with start and end times, ready for a player or editor
• Works with whichever language you are viewing

Look and feel

It should look like part of YouTube.

• Follows YouTube’s light and dark theme
• Sits in the sidebar, above the recommended videos
• Built with plain text only, so nothing from a video can change how the card looks or behaves
• Works in the default layout, and when the page is narrow

Privacy

The short version: it does not talk to anyone but YouTube.

• No account and no sign-in
• No server of ours, no analytics, no tracking
• No AI service: nothing you watch is sent for processing
• No remote code: everything that runs is inside the installed extension
• Three settings, stored by your browser

Settings

Click the YouScript icon in Chrome’s toolbar. There are three switches, and changes reach open YouTube tabs straight away.

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