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Re:Show HN: VideoMentions – Search YouTube based on the spok... by SteveDR on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @01:21PM (#31507560)
I built something similar to this when I was first learning to program. Except mine lets you perform a one-time search for videos containing keywords, similar to how you would normally search YouTube. So there are no notifications or anything.

https://phrasefinder.net

I don’t know if it even works anymore and I’m sure the code is atrocious. But I remember that I would just scrape YouTube pages for video IDs, and then use an API that returned video captions for a given ID [1]. I could see how OP would do something similar.

[1] https://pypi.org/project/youtube-transcript-api/

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Re:Show HN: VideoMentions – Search YouTube based on the spok... by kellenmace on Thursday May 26, 2022 @01:24AM (#31514932)
Nice job on PhraseFinder, @SteveDR! I am indeed doing something similar for my app. The user enters the YouTube Channel URL, the keywords and the date range, then I perform an on-the-fly search to find the matches.

I replied to @lewisjoe's comment above this one with some more details about tricks I'm employing to make searches fast.

Thanks for checking out my project!

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