Decorder

A Manifest V3 Chrome Extension that downloads transcripts from Google Recorder into a dedicated google-recorder subfolder of your Downloads directory.

Features

• Only activates on https://recorder.google.com/*
• One-click popup UI with a Start Download button
• Iterates through all recordings visible on the page
• Extracts the meeting name and date/time from each recording
• Saves each transcript as a .txt file named yyyy-MM-dd_HHmm_<Meeting Name>.txt
• Files are placed automatically in ~/Downloads/google-recorder/
• A 500 ms delay between downloads prevents the browser from blocking simultaneous saves

Installation

1. Clone or download this repository.
2. Open Chrome and navigate to chrome://extensions/.
3. Enable Developer mode (toggle in the top-right corner).
4. Click Load unpacked and select the root folder of this repository.
5. The Decorder extension icon will appear in the Chrome toolbar.

Usage

1. Go to https://recorder.google.com/ and sign in.
2. Click the Decorder extension icon in the toolbar.
3. Click Start Download in the popup.
4. The extension will iterate through each recording, open its detail pane to read the transcript, and save a .txt file to ~/Downloads/google-recorder/.

File Naming

Each file is saved as:

~/Downloads/google-recorder/yyyy-MM-dd_HHmm_<Meeting Name>.txt

For example:

~/Downloads/google-recorder/2025-04-18_1430_Weekly Standup.txt

Permissions

Permission	Reason
downloads	Save transcript files to disk
activeTab	Read the current recorder.google.com tab
scripting	Inject the content script programmatically if needed

Project Structure

decorder/
├── manifest.json   # Extension manifest (MV3)
├── popup.html      # Popup UI
├── popup.js        # Popup logic
├── content.js      # Content script – scrapes recordings & transcripts
└── background.js   # Service worker – handles file downloads