Let’s get Scene working.
This page ticks each step off as you finish it. Leave it open while you go.
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Add Scene to Chrome
Chrome needs one setting changed, because Scene isn’t in its store yet.
- In a new Chrome tab, go to this address. Paste it into the address bar and press Return.
chrome://extensions - Turn on Developer mode, the switch at the top right of that page.
- Drag the extension folder onto that page.
Or click Load unpacked and choose this folder:
Safari is new for Scene, and Chrome is where it’s tested most. Safari also forgets Scene each time it quits, so after a restart you’d add it again with Add Temporary Extension. Chrome remembers it. To use Chrome instead, open this page there:
127.0.0.1:4787/setup/- In the menu bar, choose Safari, then Settings, then the Advanced tab. Tick Show features for web developers, at the bottom.
- A Developer tab appears in the same window. Open it, click Add Temporary Extension…, and choose the extension folder. Safari asks for Touch ID or your password.
- Open Netflix or Prime Video. Click the Scene button in Safari’s toolbar and choose Always Allow on This Website, so Scene can follow the show there.
This page moves on by itself once Chrome has Scene. - In a new Chrome tab, go to this address. Paste it into the address bar and press Return.
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Connect your AI
Scene needs an AI to answer your questions. Which do you use?
Sign in and Scene uses what your plan already includes. Your questions draw on your ChatGPT plan, and you can manage that in ChatGPT settings.
It takes ChatGPT Plus or Pro. A free account can’t share its plan with other apps.
Anthropic doesn’t let other apps use a Claude subscription, so Scene uses a Claude API key instead. It’s a separate pay-as-you-go account, and you can sign up with the same email. You add credit once, and each question uses a tiny bit of it.
$5 covers about 15 episodes’ worth of questions.
- Add credit to your account. $5 is plenty to start.
- Create a key and copy it. You only get to see it once.
- Paste it here. Scene checks that it works, and it stays on this computer.
An API key is a pay-as-you-go account: you add credit once, and each question uses a tiny bit of it. You don’t need a subscription. We built and tested Scene mostly on Claude, so we’d start there.
$5 covers about 15 episodes’ worth of questions.
- Make an account, add credit, and create a key.
- Paste it here. Scene checks that it works, and it stays on this computer.
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Try it
Then ask your first question.
Play anything on Netflix or Prime Video in Chrome, with subtitles on, then press . Scene opens beside the show.
If nothing happens: click the Scene button in Safari’s toolbar and choose Always Allow on This Website. If the button is gone, Safari was restarted and has forgotten Scene: add it again from Settings, Developer, Add Temporary Extension…
To ask out loud from your phone: in Scene, switch on Second Screen Mode and scan the code. Tap the mic and just ask. The first time, your phone asks to use the microphone.