Shorts Composer: Captions, Clips, Highlights

**Shorts Composer** is a Chrome side panel extension that collects and organizes material from YouTube videos in one place. Pin it next to a video and use a single keyboard shortcut to snip key moments, pull the full caption track as text, or surface every timestamp commenters dropped — all without leaving the page. ### Features **🎬 Clip key moments (Q / E)** - Press Q while watching to mark the start, E to mark the end - Or click [Clip start] / [Clip end] in the side panel header - Add notes to saved clips, one-click seek back to any clip **📝 Caption extraction** - Pull a video's caption track as a clean text list - Shorts-style split option (auto-wrap by character limit) - Download as TXT or SRT **🕒 Comment timestamp collection** - Auto-parses `0:00`-style timestamps from the description and comments - See every moment viewers flagged in a single list, jump to any of them **📊 Per-video stats + persistence** - Caption lines · comment timestamps · saved clips · length at a glance - All material is stored per video — close and re-open, everything stays **💾 Multiple export formats** - Script TXT (caption body) - Script SRT (subtitle file) - Timeline TXT (description · comments) - Clips TXT (saved clip list) - Full JSON (per-video backup) **🌐 Korean / English** - Toggle KO / EN in the side panel header - Korean by default, English just changes the UI — your data is untouched ### Privacy - Data lives **only in your browser** (Chrome's `storage.local`) - No external server, no account, no login - No analytics SDK, no ad network, no trackers ### Permissions - **storage**: persist per-video captions, clips, and highlights locally (your browser only) - **sidePanel**: render the UI in Chrome's side panel - **downloads**: save TXT/SRT/JSON exports - **activeTab**: read video info from the YouTube tab you're currently on - **scripting**: read accurate video metadata from YouTube's player API (DOM heuristics return stale data during SPA navigation — this avoids that) - **host_permissions (`https://www.youtube.com/*`)**: works on youtube.com only, no other sites are touched ### How to use 1. Install the extension 2. Open a YouTube video page (`youtube.com/watch?v=...`) 3. Click the side panel icon in Chrome's top-right or the extension's action icon 4. While watching, hit Q/E to clip; use the [Timeline] tab to pull captions and comment timestamps 5. Export from the [Export] tab in your preferred format ### Limitations - **Long-form videos** (`/watch`) only — YouTube Shorts (`/shorts`) is disabled - Captions require the video to actually have them (auto-generated captions count) - Comment timestamp analysis runs after the comments section has loaded ### Support development This extension is **free** and **never sends your data outside YouTube**. Tips help fund new features like AI caption summaries and auto-highlights. - ☕ Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/addios4u - 🤝 GitHub Sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/addios4u ### Changelog **v0.1.0** (initial release) - Caption extraction (Script TXT/SRT) - Comment timestamp auto-collection - Q/E shortcut clipping with notes - Per-video data store + stats card - KO/EN i18n - TXT/SRT/JSON export ### Feedback / bug reports E-mail : choman150@gmail.com