https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44768714
It will send the video id from firefox to a local backend server and kick off yt-dlp.
You get not just the video but the transcript as well. So today I added a little more to the extension:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSach4YIsns
TLDW: you can now just hover over any youtube video and get the transcript on your clipboard.
And it got me thinking how much I would want a 100% text only HN style look and feel view of my youtube feed. With big, medium, and short summaries I can select. I could stop watching so many videos just to hear the good stuff. I could read 100x faster.
Other hackers of the world, what do you think of this vision?