YouTube Transcript Getter Extension - For Obsidian Karpathy Wiki
This covers generation capability or on-device inference progress — worth tracking for model efficiency, deployment cost, and application openings.
A new Chrome extension has been developed to extract YouTube video transcripts and details, formatted for Obsidian Karpathy-style LLM wikis.…
I recently created a Karpathy style LLM managed Obsidian Wiki to try to capture all of the big themes and developments in AI and AI Engineering.
Some of the best sources for this kind of thing are YouTube videos. I built a couple of MCPs using APIs etc, but they didn't work out so well for pulling transcripts.
So I went about it in a different way, I built a lightweight Chrome Extension which I use to export transcripts and video details to markdown format.
It has a few modes, one which is the big button mode, which shows an overlay and you click a button, and the transcript is pulled (along with other video details).
Again I tend to use these as I am watching a video and find it interesting, but it also does open up the possibility for a browser use agent to land on pages and either...
Anyways I find the whole thing of custom built chrome extensions for browser use agents pretty interesting - it kind of gives them a helping hand if you want something automated on a page (rather than them clicking around - and risk them getting stuck).
This is an experimental extension, so be considerate in how you use it, as I say I don't use it for any kind of mass activity - mainly as a simple helper when I am watching something interesting.
As I say I find it very helpful for documenting useful video content etc for my wiki!