I built a free privacy-first transcript extractor that works on any platform

[QuasarColumba]

Hi everyone,

A few weeks ago I was taking an online course with hundreds of videos. The creator provided transcripts, but there was no export button, just a "show transcript" link on each video that opened a text field you had to manually select and copy.

If you've ever tried to extract notes from a 200+ video course to feed into an LLM or save in your notes, you know the pain. I thought: "Surely the transcript data is already in my browser... why can't I just grab it?"

Existing tools either only work on YouTube or require uploading to some cloud service. So I built Ditto, a browser extension that extracts transcripts 100% locally with one click:

• Click the icon: transcript is on your clipboard
• Works on Udemy, Coursera, Kajabi, Teachable, YouTube, Rumble and more
• Smart formatting (no timestamps, clean paragraphs)
• 100% local, no cloud, no AI processing, no data harvesting
• Open source, free, unlimited (optional Value-for-Value)

You can check out the extension here: Ditto

Let me know if you try it! Updates will be on Nostr.

[BattleDog]

Great job, we need more people building tools like these!
You just earned your first two merit points, congrats :>

[QuasarColumba]

Great job, we need more people building tools like these!
You just earned your first two merit points, congrats :>

I'm glad you like it. And I agree, we should build free, open source products to contribute, not to extract.