Ask HN: A HN style text only view of your YouTube feed
1 fcpguru 2 8/17/2025, 5:43:24 PM
Been working on this firefox extension (previously posted here):
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?
Comments (2)
elviejo · 2h ago
Mmhhh how about a youtube version that looks like a usenet forum of my channel subscriptions. Where each video is a topic.
The summary is part of the topics.
Ideally the same software I use to read news groups should work for youtube.
fcpguru · 2h ago
totally. the killer feature is get a text only view into youtube. Could be huge.