Video Text Selector

Cmd/Ctrl-click on text inside any playing video to select and ctrl/cmd-c to copy, just like text on a webpage.

You've spotted something worth keeping — a quote in a talk, a code snippet in a screencast, an ingredient on a recipe card, a sign in a travel vlog, a bullet on a slide — and you reach for the keyboard only to remember it's pixels, not text. This extension turns those pixels into selectable text without pausing, screenshotting, or hunting for a transcript.

How it works:

Hold cmd (Mac) or ctrl (Win/Linux) and click on the text. A small frozen snapshot lifts off the video with the text now selectable underneath. Drag across what you want, hit cmd-c (or ctrl-c), and it's on your clipboard. The video never pauses.

What you can select:

- Single words and phrases