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Re: Find a YouTube video based on closed captions keyword search?

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Post by aaron695 » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 11:15 AM UTC

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Re: Find a YouTube video based on closed captions keyword search?

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Post by roelschroeven » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 12:15 PM UTC

dekatron wrote: post #9

Not a solution, but somewhat related: https://youglish.com/ lets you search YouTube videos for keywords, but the purpose is to find examples of how to pronounce words from real usage. It also works for a few other languages aside from English.

Might be a solution, I think. I'd give it a shot: use it to search for the person's name. I think there's a pretty good chance of it working.

Re: Find a YouTube video based on closed captions keyword search?

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Post by benboozled » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 1:20 PM UTC

dekatron wrote: post #9

Not a solution, but somewhat related: https://youglish.com/ lets you search YouTube videos for keywords, but the purpose is to find examples of how to pronounce words from real usage. It also works for a few other languages aside from English.

This restores a little bit of my faith in humanity. Such a cool tool! Thanks for sharing.

Re: Find a YouTube video based on closed captions keyword search?

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Post by pimlottc » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 4:55 PM UTC

There’s literally thousands of episodes of The Tonight Show[0], many of which are probably not on YouTube. I would reach out to the Jay Leno fan community and see if anyone has it in a private archive. Never underestimate the organization skills of a dedicated fan.

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Tonight_Show_wit...

Re: Find a YouTube video based on closed captions keyword search?

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Post by mvidal01 » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 5:12 PM UTC

lathiat wrote: post #6

https://incaptions.com/

Doesnt work very well Im afraid. I looked at the transcript of some youtube videos and then searched on a few words and it didnt find any videos with the word. The word was powell FWIW.

Re: Find a YouTube video based on closed captions keyword search?

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Post by noman-land » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 10:12 PM UTC

You can try using yt-fts[0]. I've had great luck with it.

[0] https://github.com/NotJoeMartinez/yt-fts

Re: Find a YouTube video based on closed captions keyword search?

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Post by sigmaprimus » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 5:38 AM UTC

Thank You to everyone who took the time to read my question and especially those that replied. I have read over the replies and there is be many good ideas/solutions to my query.

I am going to start at the top and work my way through them over the next little while and will definitely provide an update of what hopefully worked but it may be a few weeks.

I just wanted to post this comment to let you all know I appreciate the great responses and the HN community. As benboozled commented about his faith being restored in humanity, I am thankful for HN and all of you generous and helpful contributors.

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Re: Find a YouTube video based on closed captions keyword search?

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Post by fuzztester » Fri, Jul 07, 2023, 9:10 AM UTC

A related interesting problem would be: how to search by text keywords in the audio stream of the video.

I guess part of one solution approach could be to convert the speech to text. Could then grep it. But how would we correlate that back to the time positions in the video where those keywords occurred?