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by kellenmace 4y ago
Hey @HidyBush! No, YouTube does not reliably include spoken word/transcript matches in search results. I've run tests where I open up the transcript of a video using these steps ( https://kb.swtc.edu/page.php?id=902
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by kellenmace 4y ago
Hey @tomatowurst! You can search within the spoken words/transcript of a single YouTube video by following these steps: https://kb.swtc.edu/page.php?id=90230
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by kellenmace 4y ago
Hey @wolongong942! Nice- I'm glad you're finding it useful! VideoMentions Search is built entirely using serverless technologies, so it should scale really well. There's no single server or database to act as a bottleneck. Wh
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by kellenmace 4y ago
Yeah, Google is of course the king of search, so they could certainly decide to revamp YouTube search to include spoken word/transcription matches. They have all the data required to make that happen. That would make VideoMentions Sear
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by kellenmace 4y ago
Cool! Thank you! Here are some example use-cases that I included in another comment, in case any of them are relevant to you: 1. You want to find all videos within a YouTube channel that mention your brand, your product, or the topics you c
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by kellenmace 4y ago
"I assume you're getting hugged to death" -- lol Yeah, maybe I'll consider having two versions of search - one version for paid customers that allows you to search for YouTube channels by name/keyword and allows you
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by kellenmace 4y ago
This is a cool idea! It wouldn't apply to people who want to search all the videos on a given channel for specific keywords (including those they haven't watched). I can see it being useful for folks trying to locate a specific vi
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by kellenmace 4y ago
Hey @loxias! Yes, you're exactly right - VideoMentions scrapes the video page markup and pulls out the "baseUrl" for the English caption track. It converts that XML caption track into JSON, then searches it for keyword matche
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by kellenmace 4y ago
Yes, my thoughts exactly. If Google decides that it's going to revamp YouTube search to include spoken word/transcription matches, that would make VideoMentions Search irrelevant– and I'd be okay with that! In the meantime, I
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by kellenmace 4y ago
Hey @hanniabu! I do client-side in-memory caching of videos data, only. No server-side caching. In fact, there is no database involved at all- the client-side app calls serverless function API endpoints to fetch the YouTube channel and vide
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by kellenmace 4y ago
Oh, cool! I hadn't heard of the Key Moments/SeekToAction feature before. I'll have to dig in and explore that a bit. Thanks for the tip!
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by kellenmace 4y ago
Hey @bredren! Yeah, I agree that this makes for a nice user experience. This is how the paid VideoMentions.com service works- users can search for channels by name or keywords, without the need to paste in URLs. It looks like this: https:&
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by kellenmace 4y ago
Hey @jobigoud! Yeah, currently VideoMentions only uses the auto-generated English video transcriptions when searching for matches. If there was enough demand, it could be expanded to support other languages. Doing so would add complexity an
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by kellenmace 4y ago
Yes, this is how VideoMentions Search works. It scrapes the video page markup and pulls out the "baseUrl" for the English caption track. It converts that XML caption track into JSON, then searches it for keyword matches. Is that w
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by kellenmace 4y ago
VideoMentions scrapes the video page markup and pulls out the "baseUrl" for the English caption track. It converts that XML caption track into JSON, then searches it for keyword matches. You're right that this particular sear
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by kellenmace 4y ago
Hey @TurningNYC! Thanks for reaching out. Yes, I'd be happy to speak with you regarding API access and enterprise subscription plans. You can reach out to me at kellenmace at gmail dot com. Thanks! Talk to you soon.
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by kellenmace 4y ago
I agree! This is how the paid VideoMentions.com service works- users can search for channels by name, without the need to paste in URLs. This auto-complete lookup requires spending a finite number of API calls, though, which is why it’s res
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by kellenmace 4y ago
Yep, you're exactly right. The tool works by getting the channel's videos, then fetching the voice-to-text transcripts for them, then searching within the spoken words (along with the title and description) for any keyword matches
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by kellenmace 4y ago
YouTube doesn't provide a way to search all of YouTube based on the spoken words in videos, unfortunately. I could update VideoMentions Search to allow users to select multiple channels, and then perform the search across all of thos
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by kellenmace 4y ago
Yeah, YouTube doesn't provide a way to search all of YouTube based on the spoken words in videos. I could update VideoMentions Search to allow users to select multiple channels, and then perform the search across all of those (maybe
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by kellenmace 4y ago
Hey HN! I just launched VideoMentions Search, a free tool that allows you to search YouTube to find videos that contain specific spoken words. Here's how to quickly try it out - Let's say you want to find every video on The Verge&
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Show HN: VideoMentions – Search YouTube based on the spoken words in videos(videomentions.com)
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