Do you have link to that particular show? It's surprising it was mentioned and that Linus was still 'supporting' it at the time.
I cobbled together the correct yt-dlp command to get all the subtitles and a little Python glue to search them.
Thanks for taking the time. Now I need to learn more about yt-dlp.
Would you mind sharing the yt-dlp command which helped you get all the subtitles?
./yt-dlp --skip-download --write-sub --write-auto-sub --sub-lang en --sub-format json3 "https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8mG-RkN2uTw7PhlnAr4pZZz2QubIbujH"
import os, json
hits, files = 0, 0
for cur in [x for x in os.listdir(".") if x.endswith(".json3")]:
files += 1
with open(cur) as f:
data = json.load(f)
words = []
for event in data["events"]:
at = event["tStartMs"]
for seg in event.get("segs", []):
words.append((len(words), at, seg["utf8"].strip().lower()))
span = 10 * 1000
for i, at, word in words:
if word in {"razor", "blade", "razors", "blades"}:
span_min = min(x[0] for x in words if abs(x[1] - at) <= span)
span_max = max(x[0] for x in words if abs(x[1] - at) <= span)
for other_i, other_at, other_word in words[span_min:span_max+1]:
if other_word in {"percent"}:
print("-" * 100)
loc = min(at, other_at) // 1000
loc = f"{loc//3600}:{(loc%3600)//60:02d}:{loc%60:02d}"
print(loc + ": " + cur)
phrase = " ".join(x[2] for x in words[min(i,other_i): max(i,other_i)+1])
print(phrase)
hits += 1
print(f"{hits} hits in {files} files.")
It was awkward as heck. I gained a lot of respect for Luke that day for keeping it real.