oysterpin.app

What It Is

OysterPin is a Chrome extension designed to automatically turn restaurants and attractions featured in YouTube travel vlogs and food discovery videos into clickable Google Maps place links, then save them into your personal map collections. It addresses a very specific pain point: you see a great place in a video, but cannot find its English name, address, or organize it into an itinerary.

Core Features

The product offers two modes: Quick Scan and AI Vision. Quick Scan reads the title, description, and subtitles, making it suitable for quickly extracting places explicitly mentioned in a video. AI Vision uses video understanding to identify signs, store names, menus, and storefronts shown on screen, so it may still capture locations even when the creator does not mention them verbally. It also highlights foreign-language text recognition and translation, which is useful for travel content from places like Japan, South Korea, and Thailand. The official claim is that accuracy for well-known restaurants and places is typically above 90%, though users can still manually edit and correct results.

Pricing and Integrations

The free version includes 50 Quick Scans per day, 30 AI Vision credits upon registration, automatic saving to Google Maps, and YouTube sidebar integration. AI Vision consumes about 2 credits per minute. Paid access is sold as one-time credit packs rather than a subscription. The Weekender pack costs $2.99, includes 200 credits, and permanently unlocks batch saving and custom lists. Explorer is shown at $7.99, but the captured text does not provide its full set of benefits. Export options include Google Maps, custom lists, and CSV, but batch export requires purchasing any credit pack.

Pros, Cons, and Best Fit

Its main strength is how focused the use case is: the workflow from watching a video, identifying places, and saving them to a map feels relatively smooth. The free Quick Scan allowance is generous, and credits do not expire, which reduces the burden for casual users. The downsides are that full support is currently limited to YouTube, while Instagram Reels and TikTok are still in development; AI Vision can steadily consume credits when processing long videos; and there is limited disclosure around privacy, payment methods, and the underlying models. It is best suited for independent trip planners, overseas food-hunting users, and people who often use YouTube for travel research.

Access from China

Using it from mainland China involves clear ecosystem dependencies: YouTube, Google accounts, Google Maps, and the Chrome Web Store typically require a proxy network, so the overall assessment is “proxy required.” Payment methods are not disclosed, and the availability of overseas credit cards or app store payments needs to be verified in practice. Alternatives include manually saving places in Google Maps, organizing them in Notion or spreadsheets, or using general-purpose AI video summarization tools to help extract locations.