Show HN: VideoMentions – Search YouTube based on the spoken words in videos

Re:Show HN: VideoMentions – Search YouTube based on the spok... by atentaten on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @11:53AM (#31506309)

This 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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Re:Show HN: VideoMentions – Search YouTube based on the spok... by kellenmace on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @01:38AM (#31578532)

Hey @atentaten! YouTube doesn't provide a way to search across all of YouTube based on transcriptions/spoken words, unfortunately. That's why specifying a channel is required. Once the user provides a channel URL, then VideoMentions Search can perform an on-the-fly search of the videos on that channel to identify matches.

Thanks for checking out my project!

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