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Autohand

The open-source browser AI agent: ask about any page, extract data — and, uniquely, transcribe video.

An AI workbench in your sidebar: reads the page, answers questions, structures data into tables — and transcribes video to a transcript in one line. Local-first, your keys, anonymous opt-out telemetry.

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Install / Update

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            First-install guide
            
    
              
  1. Click ① to create or pick an empty folder (e.g. autohand-ext).
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  2. Click ② — the build is written into that folder.
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  3. Click ③ and follow the dialog to load or refresh on chrome://extensions.
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  4. For future updates, repeat ②③; Chrome usually auto-reloads after files are overwritten.
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Chrome / Edge only (requires the File System Access API).

          

        

      


      
      
        

          
③ Reload the extension

          
Web pages cannot navigate to chrome:// URLs — copy the address below and paste it into the address bar:

          

            chrome://extensions/
            
          

          

            
First install (not loaded yet)

            
    
              
  1. Turn on Developer mode (top right of the extensions page).
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  2. Click "Load unpacked" and pick the folder from step ①.
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Update (already loaded)

            
    
              
  1. Find the Autohand card on the extensions page.
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  2. Click ↻ (reload); Chrome usually auto-reloads after step ② anyway.
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Setup after install

        
Two minutes in the sidebar settings — bring your own keys, or go fully local.

        

          

            
1 · Configure the chat model

            
Open the sidebar → Settings → Models:

            
    
              
  1. Pick a provider preset — OpenAI-compatible or Anthropic-compatible.
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  2. Paste your API key (stored locally, sent only to the endpoint you chose).
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  3. Self-hosted / local endpoints (Ollama, vLLM…) work too — any OpenAI-compatible URL.
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2 · Speech recognition (ASR)

              local option
            

            
Sidebar → Settings → Models → Speech recognition (ASR):

            
    
              
  • Cloud presets — Groq (free tier), SiliconFlow, or OpenAI; paste the key, done.
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  • Local model — switch the provider to Local model, pick a Whisper size and hit Download: tiny ≈40MB (fastest) · base ≈80MB (recommended) · small ≈250MB (best quality).
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  • Local runs entirely in your browser (transformers.js) — audio never leaves the device, no key needed.
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Then just say “transcribe this video” on any supported page. Full docs: GitHub README

      


      
      

        
What it can do

        
Open any page and talk in the sidebar — read, answer, transform, store. All local-first.

        

          

            
💬 Page Q&A & analysis

            
Answers grounded in the live page: summarize long articles, explain content, compare options. Reads first, never makes things up.

          

          

            
📊 Data extraction & processing

            
Structure page content into tables (CSV download) and markdown notes — searchable and reusable.

          

          

            

              
🎬 Video transcription

              unique among open source
            

            
MSE sites like Bilibili and Douyin, plus direct links and HLS — say "transcribe this video": the audio track is detected, extracted locally, transcribed with resumable ASR into a timestamped markdown transcript.

          

          

            
📄 Full-page export & archive

            
Export the whole page as markdown (images localized); data, transcripts, and notes live in one searchable Data tab.

          

        

      


      
      

        

          
$0
local transcription · runs in your browser

          
33
gated capabilities · per-action authorization

          
0
content servers / accounts · anonymous opt-out telemetry

          
40MB+
local ASR model · download once, transcribe offline

        

      


      
      

        
Compared with open-source peers

        

          

            
              

                
                Autohand
                Nanobrowser
                browser-use
              

            
            
              

                Page Q&A / understanding
                ✓ read-before-answer, verified context
                ✓✓
              

              

                Video/audio transcription
                ✓ local extraction + resumable ASR
                ✗✗
              

              

                Full-page markdown export (localized images)
                ✓
                ✗✗
              

              

                Tables → Data tab (CSV) + markdown notes
                ✓
                ✗✗
              

              

                Per-action network authorization (tool+target bound)
                ✓
                global or none—
              

              

                Local-first (media never leaves device)
                ✓
                partialmostly cloud browsers
              

              

                Task reliability (plans / resume / breaker)
                ✓
                basicbasic
              

              

                Form factor
                Chrome side-panel extension
                Chrome extensionPython/TS library
              

            
          

        

        
Comparison based on public features as of 2026-09; file an issue if anything is off.

      


      
      

        

          ✓ Anonymous telemetry, one-tap off
          ✓ No servers
          ✓ No accounts
        

        

          Media is processed in the browser; agent-initiated network requests need per-action approval.
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