Are we sure YouTube doesn't already do this? Often I have searched for a video while only remembering a certain phrase or even a certain comment left under it, and YouTube was able to actually find it
Show HN: VideoMentions – Search YouTube based on the spoken words in videos
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#32One of the consequences of the effectiveness of click-bait titles on youtube is that searching for videos you watched historically is extremely difficult, because quite often the primary thing in the video is never mentioned in the title. The descriptions are almost universally used to store common links that are about the channel not the video and the consequence of this is that click-bait titled content is very har…
Also, the youtube built in search often fails to match videos that have a word in the title for which you search for.
YouTube search is almost completely useless, I just use Google to find YouTube videos. It does seem to search in the video transcript and the comments (I'm not sure but it seems that way).
Re: Show HN: VideoMentions – Search YouTube based on the spoken words in videos
#33Nothing of note to say other than this is really cool!
Re: Show HN: VideoMentions – Search YouTube based on the spoken words in videos
#34One of the consequences of the effectiveness of click-bait titles on youtube is that searching for videos you watched historically is extremely difficult, because quite often the primary thing in the video is never mentioned in the title. The descriptions are almost universally used to store common links that are about the channel not the video and the consequence of this is that click-bait titled content is very har…
people also edit the titles of videos from time to time... so even the exact title doesn't help
Re: Show HN: VideoMentions – Search YouTube based on the spoken words in videos
#35Hey 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's YouTube channel within the last several months in which "MacBook Pro" is mentioned. Here's a pre-populated search to accomplish that: https://videomentions.com/search?channelUrl=https%253A…
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#36One of the consequences of the effectiveness of click-bait titles on youtube is that searching for videos you watched historically is extremely difficult, because quite often the primary thing in the video is never mentioned in the title. The descriptions are almost universally used to store common links that are about the channel not the video and the consequence of this is that click-bait titled content is very har…
people also edit the titles of videos from time to time... so even the exact title doesn't help
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Re: Show HN: VideoMentions – Search YouTube based on the spoken words in videos
#37Hey 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's YouTube channel within the last several months in which "MacBook Pro" is mentioned. Here's a pre-populated search to accomplish that: https://videomentions.com/search?channelUrl=https%253A…
Very cool! Well done!
I've not got a legit use for it right now but the few example searches I thought up returned the videos I was thinking of
Nice work!
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#38One of the consequences of the effectiveness of click-bait titles on youtube is that searching for videos you watched historically is extremely difficult, because quite often the primary thing in the video is never mentioned in the title. The descriptions are almost universally used to store common links that are about the channel not the video and the consequence of this is that click-bait titled content is very har…
Also, the youtube built in search often fails to match videos that have a word in the title for which you search for.
Youtube is clearly blacklisting certain channels and they can't be found via even precise searches.
Re: Show HN: VideoMentions – Search YouTube based on the spoken words in videos
#39This is a nice tool. I wish one didn't have to specify the channel, as some comments mentioned. If it's not possible to get the channel when providing the video url via an API, it is possible to get it from the video url's GET response data. The latter may be little slower, but might be worth it in terms of UX.
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#40One of the consequences of the effectiveness of click-bait titles on youtube is that searching for videos you watched historically is extremely difficult, because quite often the primary thing in the video is never mentioned in the title. The descriptions are almost universally used to store common links that are about the channel not the video and the consequence of this is that click-bait titled content is very har…
people also edit the titles of videos from time to time... so even the exact title doesn't help
Aye especially in modern day YouTube
Once you're big enough your stats start being useful, folks in the know (mrbeast's analytics guy, I can't think of more rn, etc) advise you rotate out the thumb/titles until the click through rate is decent