VideoMentions
Consumer and social
video search
SHOW HN2022
295points
132comments
#144of 2,570 in 2022
Top 6%of 2022 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
19 positive, 32 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 6 critical, out of 61 comments about the project. Thread score +0.23.
Idea: 13 for, 3 againstPricing: 2 for, 0 againstPerformance: 1 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful tool for finding spoken mentions in videos
From 1 comment
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!
corobo on HN
Objections
Search is slow for large channels
From 1 comment
Hey @hanniabu! I do client-side in-memory caching of videos data, only. No server-side caching. In fact, there is no database involved at all- the client-side app calls…
kellenmace on HN
Some videos' captions fail to load, missing matches
From 1 comment
VideoMentions scrapes the video page markup and pulls out the "baseUrl" for the English caption track. It converts that XML caption track into JSON, then searches it for keyword…
kellenmace on HN
Requests
Search across multiple channels or subscriptions
From 2 comments
Yeah, YouTube doesn't provide a way to search all of YouTube based on the spoken words in videos. I could update VideoMentions Search to allow users to select multiple channels,…
kellenmace on HNYouTube doesn't provide a way to search all of YouTube based on the spoken words in videos, unfortunately. I could update VideoMentions Search to allow users to select multiple…
kellenmace on HN
Search watch history
From 1 comment
This is a cool idea! It wouldn't apply to people who want to search all the videos on a given channel for specific keywords (including those they haven't watched). I can see it…
kellenmace on HN
Alternatives named
YouGlish
From 1 comment
Hey @jobigoud! Yeah, currently VideoMentions only uses the auto-generated English video transcriptions when searching for matches. If there was enough demand, it could be…
kellenmace on HN
PhraseFinder
From 1 comment
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…
SteveDR on HN