Scribetape

Find the momentin a Twitch VOD.

Turn a stream into text you can search. Paste the VOD link, get every line with its timestamp, then find the word, name or quote and scrub straight to it in the Twitch player.

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01How it works

  1. 1
    Paste the VOD link

    Copy the twitch.tv/videos/… URL of the past broadcast and drop it in.

  2. 2
    Get the whole stream as text

    Long VODs are transcribed in sections and stitched, so the timestamps run continuously from the first minute to the last.

  3. 3
    Search and scrub

    Use your browser's find (Ctrl+F or ⌘F) on the transcript page, read the timestamp on the matching line, and scrub to it in the Twitch player.

02Frequently asked

How do I search inside a Twitch VOD?

Twitch has no search inside a video, so the way is to turn the VOD into text first. Paste the link here, open the transcript, and use your browser's find on the page. Every line carries the time it was said, measured from the start of the VOD, so you know where to scrub.

Can I search a whole eight-hour stream?

Yes. The whole VOD comes back as one document; an eight-hour stream took about 35 minutes to transcribe in our measurements. Without signing in you get the first 30 minutes as a preview, the free plan covers the first 72 minutes of a recording, and paid plans go up to 24 hours per recording.

Can it tell me who said what?

Optionally. Turn on speaker labels and each line is tagged Speaker 1, Speaker 2 and so on, which helps in multi-person streams. Labelled transcripts spend two credits per hour instead of one.

Can I search across many VODs at once?

Not on the page itself: each transcript is searched on its own. Export TXT files and search them together on your computer, or keep them in your library and open the ones you need.

Is the chat included?

No. The transcript is the speech on the VOD's audio track; chat messages are not in the video.

Is the text accurate enough to search?

It is a modern speech model, so ordinary speech is close to verbatim, but gaming slang, usernames and overlapping voices can be misheard. If a search misses, try a distinctive word from the same sentence, and you can correct a line on the page once you have found it.