PlayPhrase: Site for Searching Cinema Phrases

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Post by NKosmatos » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 12:21 PM UTC

PlayPhrase: Site for Searching Cinema Phrases
playphrase.me

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Post by NKosmatos » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 12:24 PM UTC

Allows you to search for a specific phrase or word and you get video results from movies (with timestamp), where this phrase/word is being used. Has around 2M phrases and the first 5 results are free, afterwards you need to become a sponsor.

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Post by epaga » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 1:34 PM UTC

This is incredibly impressive, especially the ability to immediately download the snippet as an mp4.

How has this not been immediately shut down due to copyright?

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Post by ortusdux » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 1:54 PM UTC

One of the Daily Show's greatest strengths was their ability to quickly compile relevant clips. I always wondered if they had a service like this. I assumed that they were scraping CC text themselves. Maybe they just had a phenomenal research dept.

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Post by niksmac » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 1:58 PM UTC

Where is "Guns. Lots Of Guns"?

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Post by mratsim » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 2:00 PM UTC

Is this scraping a subtitle service + retrieving the timestamp from the subtitle and displaying it?

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Post by roldie » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 2:15 PM UTC

This is really great! So much fun to try out different phrases.

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Post by jonheller » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 2:18 PM UTC

This is one of the most impressive projects I've seen on HN in a long time. Nice work!

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Post by josefresco » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 2:20 PM UTC

Neat, it handled "you can't handle the truth" swimmingly!

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Post by josefresco » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 2:34 PM UTC

ortusdux wrote: post #4

One of the Daily Show's greatest strengths was their ability to quickly compile relevant clips. I always wondered if they had a service like this. I assumed that they were scraping CC text themselves. Maybe they just had a phenomenal research dept.

I often wonder this too about a radio show I listen to with several decades of archives. I wonder what the interface looks like, and how hard it really is to assemble clips. Having a database of thousands of hours of video and audio to search sounds cool!