Seek

Seek is a browser extension that lets you search inside video transcripts the same way you'd search a document. Press Ctrl+K (or Cmd+K on Mac), type a word or phrase, and jump directly to the moment where it's spoken. No more scrubbing through timelines or manually opening transcript panels to find what you need.

The extension works across several major video platforms including YouTube, Vimeo, Loom, Udemy, Coursera, and Pluralsight. This makes it useful for anyone who watches educational content, programming tutorials, lectures, or podcasts and needs to find specific information without watching entire videos. Instead of guessing timestamps or fast-forwarding blindly, you search for the actual words and land exactly where they appear.

The core interaction is intentionally simple. The keyboard shortcut mirrors what's already familiar from document and browser search. Results show which moments contain your search term, and clicking jumps the video to that timestamp. For long-form content like multi-hour courses or lecture recordings, this turns video from a linear medium into something closer to searchable text.

There's also an optional AI search and chat feature for users who bring their own LLM API key. This extends the basic transcript search into something more conversational, though the core value proposition stands without it. Most users will likely use the straightforward keyword search that works out of the box.

The extension is free and privacy-focused according to the developer disclosure on the Chrome Web Store, stating it doesn't collect or use your data. Installation is the standard Chrome extension flow, and it integrates directly into the video player interface on supported platforms.

Seek fills a gap that's obvious once you notice it. Video platforms treat transcripts as a secondary feature, something you open in a side panel and scroll through manually. Seek makes that same content instantly searchable with a keyboard shortcut, which changes how useful recorded video becomes for learning and reference. For anyone who regularly uses video as a knowledge source rather than entertainment, that's a meaningful improvement to the workflow.