Plain text
Everything on screen
Slides, subtitles, UI labels — copied as visible text, nothing rewritten.
Alt+C for one frame. Or collect the whole lesson into real project files while you watch. Built by a developer who got tired of the pause–squint–retype loop.
Add to Chrome — FreeChrome · Edge · Brave · Opera · Free during early access
A coding tutorial plays on YouTube. The viewer presses Alt+C. CodeRa captures the current frame while the video keeps playing, reads the code, and copies it with indentation. The viewer pastes into VS Code — ready to run.
Or tap the floating CodeRa button on YouTube, Udemy, and other players.
The video keeps playing — no freeze, no screenshot dance.
Ctrl+V / Cmd+V with indentation kept. Ready for VS Code or Cursor.
Slides, subtitles, UI labels — copied as visible text, nothing rewritten.
Finds the code and keeps indentation, brackets, and comments so you can run it.
Explains the snippet, traces the logic, and shows the expected result.
Tutorials don’t write one function and stop. They grow HTML, then CSS, then JS over twenty minutes. CodeRa can ride along — collect frames while you watch, then hand you a timeline and files you can open.
Hit the floating Lesson control (or start collection from the popup).
Keep watching. No forced rewind loop, no blinking the player for every sample.
When you’re done, you get timestamps plus assembled pieces — think
index.html,
styles.css,
script.js.
If the Chrome Web Store still shows 1.1.0, update when 1.2.0 appears. While collection runs, frames go through the extract relay — same path as a single Alt+C. Stop anytime. Details in the Privacy Policy.
Same extension after the paste: library, exports, follow-ups — the boring-but-useful stuff you actually keep using.
capture
Alt+C / floating button for video. Select Area for slides and docs. Upload a PNG/JPEG when the code is already a screenshot.
library
Search, filter by source and language, jump back to the timestamp. Stored in your browser — not a CodeRa cloud folder.
exports
Export only when you press the button. GitLab Snippets with a token that stays local.
follow-up
Ask about a snippet, or convert it to JS, Python, Go, Java, Rust, or TypeScript without leaving the flow.
bracket check
Flags likely missing braces and similar recognition mistakes so you don’t debug garbage for ten minutes.
controls
CodeRa + Lesson sit on the player when you want them. Toggle them off in the popup if you prefer Alt+C only.
| Tool | Usual friction | CodeRa |
|---|---|---|
| Google Lens | Often flattens indentation; symbols get mangled | Code mode built to keep structure |
| ChatGPT | Screenshot → upload → prompt → copy (5+ steps) | One click, prompt built in |
| CodeRa | Live video frame while the lesson plays | Alt+C → clipboard |
Install from the Chrome Web Store — free while in early access.
Add to Chrome — Free