This browser extension enhances the YouTube viewing experience by allowing users to easily navigate through a video based on time markers extracted from the video's comments. It adds functionality to jump to specific timestamps mentioned in comments, and provides buttons for quick navigation between these markers.
- Time Marker Parsing: When a user clicks on a YouTube comment that contains time markers (e.g., "0:00 Intro, 5:00 Chapter 1, 10:00 Conclusion"), the extension parses these markers and converts them into an array of seconds.
- Keyboard shorcut: Pressing Alt + Q and Alt + W will navigate to the previous and next time markers, respectively.
Available for Firefox here: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtube-comments-timestamps/
To load and use the extension locally in your browser, follow these steps:
- git clone this repository
- Open your browser and navigate to
chrome://extensions/ - Open your browser and navigate to the extensions page (e.g., chrome://extensions in Google Chrome).
- Enable "Developer mode" (usually a toggle in the top right corner).
- Click on "Load unpacked" and select the folder where your content.js and manifest.json files are located.
- Navigate to a YouTube video.
- Click on a comment containing time markers to load them into the extension.
- Use the keyboard shortcuts Alt + Q and Alt + W to navigate to the previous and next time markers, respectively.
- The extension is designed for use with YouTube and may not work if YouTube changes its layout or class names.
- The extension currently works best with full page reloads and may need additional logic for single-page application behaviors (like YouTube's dynamic content loading).
- Replace buttons for key shortcuts.
- handle correctly when reloading page.
- Add support for custom shortcuts.