Scraping YouTube Transcripts for AI Summarization with JavaScript

Published: 05/20/2025

Hey there! I recently tackled a neat challenge: pulling the transcript from a YouTube video and cleaning it up to feed into an AI like ChatGPT or Grok for a quick summary. The goal was to grab all the text from a segments-container element on YouTube’s page, strip out the noise (like timestamps and extra spaces), and copy it to the clipboard for easy pasting into an AI tool. To get there, I needed to click a couple of elements to reveal the transcript. Here’s how I pulled it off with a slick vanilla JavaScript script.

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Tech is changing- where are we going?

Published: 08/05/2024

Have you noticed that the technology of the world is rapidly growing, we went from horses and buggies in 1890s to super sonic jet airplanes by the 1970s. Since 1970 we’ve seen a massive increase of technology from airplanes, cars, the internet and medicine. We’ve got vaccines based off of custom engineered MRNA strands to kill viruses-how neat is that!

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The new Jerusalem

Published: 05/18/2024

Jesus Christ is coming again very soon. Time is short. We have passed on the 76 anniversary year since Israel became a nation again (May 14, 1948). Repent and meet the Lord before He arrives. In one day Israel became a nation again as foretold in Ezekiel 37:21-22.

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You should be buying AI stocks

Published: 04/23/2024

If you want to miss out on the next millionaire minting event, you should not buy AI stocks or cryptocurrency. This is not a get rich scheme, but a solid projection on the future.

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Automate deleting of Facebook messages

Published: 04/05/2024

I lothe Facebook Messenger. It lacks a feature I value a lot: bulk delete. Well, I tried to fully automate the click on menu, click delete button then finally click the delete chat button. I even found a script that does it. The bad news is that script is badly out of date and does not work. But the idea is sound. I found that script had a pull request so I went to check it out.

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Using Chatgpt to write SQL

Published: 11/30/2023

Stack Overflow sucks. The code is sometimes helpful, many times its not, many times it’s plain wrong. GitHub Copilt and ChatGPT are excellent tools and are really useful for getting a really fast, specific answer that you can easily ask clarifying questions. I love using it to write complicated things.

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Iterating on a business idea

Published: 10/20/2023

I’m a man of many, many, many ideas. I have a long list and a variety of interests. I’ve always wanted to start and more importantly run a successful small business. To build a product, get it to market and run with it. I’ve been apart of a few consultancy companies and a few unsuccessful start ups.

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Conversations with an AI: Part 1

Published: 09/12/2023

I might be crazy, but I find that I talk to my computer and they talk back, yes they. I talk to multiple models (I hope my wife isn’t jealous), not those kinds of models, but language models. My two favorite companions are Chat GPT 3.5 and Claude 2. I’m getting a local copy of LLama 2, so we’ll see how that goes. But since I’m talking to the voices in my computer and not just the voices in my head (joking, eh? Perhaps? Perhaps not?), I thought I’d share what they have to say. The computer voices.

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A programmers approach to building a sprinkler system

Published: 08/23/2023

Back in April of 2022 we moved into a new house, giant house, mcmansion really (3400 sq ft across 2 levels). The lot is really massive, probably atleast 10-15,000 sq ft. Both the front and backyards lacked an automatic irrigation system not to mention the landscaping consisted of mostly weeds. Being cheap and very lazy, I set out to do my best to automate systems to care for my massive yard without the hassle of hiring a contractor and having them build a crappy system.

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thoughts on the golden rule

Published: 03/27/2023

As an avid reader with ADHD, I find paper books difficult to read due to my mind wandering. Therefore, audio books are the best option for me. Recently, while listening to a science fiction novel about post-humanity after a nuclear war, I came across a fascinating debate. The characters were debating whether the “administrator” of the system was truly a god. During this discussion, I picked up on something interesting about the three different rules: the iron rule, the silver rule, and the golden rule. Although I am not sure about their origin, I thought it would be worth sharing them here.

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A quick look at data tables and Material UI

Published: 03/15/2023

A couple weeks ago I set-out to build a prototype for some friends of their web application ideas. They already had a design built partially in Material UI. In the past I’ve found most CSS frameworks and libraries to be a colossal pain, but after poking around I decided that MUI is a pretty awesome tool that I get to work with. It has led me to believe that if you’re building a component library for your own needs, you’re wasting time and the companies time (unless you want to do it for fun).

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The FDIC should bailout the SVB

Published: 03/11/2023

Y-Combinator, a leading US private equity investment firm, is asking people (CEOs/Founders) to sign a petition to lobby the FDIC into backing the depositors of the SVB bank to ensure that they can access more then the $250,000 FDIC limit on deposit insurance.

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Writers block

Published: 03/10/2023

I should be doing something other then writing a blog post, I could be doing anything but I want to say something. The trouble is I don’t know what to say. Over the last year I’ve started but not finished over a half a dozen blog posts. I’ve lost the desire to complete the posts and get it out. So, I’m going to break that spell today. I will publish this post, even if its a crappy post.

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Wordle Exposed

Published: 02/16/2022

Today, I was teaching my highschool computer class. (I volunteer teach a Wednesday CS class) I wanted to build a Wordle solver so we took a JSON file containing all words in the English language, filtering all 5 letter words out of the file then using it to figure out suggestions for today’s Wordle based on letters included, excluded and positions. We got lost, some highschoolers couldn’t download files.. It was a hot mess. But it was a neat idea. Finally one kid was like, are the words in the JS file? We dug through the source code and found all the Wordle words.

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Building for the future

Published: 02/15/2022

In my early days of professional programming, I had an internship at my university’s rec center. I was a web developer and I was tasked with building an employee certification tracking system. New to the idea of reusability and building for the future I was pretty nervous and did not understand what the implications where to implementing 15 column table, 3 columns for each certification. The certification then mapped into the UI and each field was manually generated. I stored the date certified, date expires and some other meta data in the 3rd column.

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AG-Grid and React Hooks

Published: 02/10/2022

A coworker of mine is trying to integrate his UI code with my GraphQL Resolver code. What he wanted to do was on each button push make a call to the backend, to add a row item to a list. The trouble with this approach is that this is a CRUD type API call. It’s a wizard that collects a bunch of required attributes up front than at the end calls an API to create the record with all required attributes.

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