[rodnim]

> - You remember watching a video where a certain topic was discussed, and now you're trying to remember which video it was to rewatch it.

But I need to remember which channel I watched? Maybe I'm missing something, but in my eyes it would make it tremendously more useful if I didn't have to specify channel.

[kellenmace]

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, and then perform the search across all of those (maybe importing all the channels they're subscribed to could be handy... ). One way or another though, it would still require selecting specific channels to search within. That limitation notwithstanding, I still think it's a useful tool, though!

Thanks for checking it out!

[bredren]

I get why you wouldn’t be able to index all of YouTube, that’s a big ask.

However, I don’t use YouTube enough to mess w channels much. I’m usually searching on a particular topic.

For example, “drop ceiling panel replacement.”

Perhaps you could help users limit the channel scope by making an intelligent channel selection by keyword.

So I would put in “home improvement,” and you could choose some appropriate channels to search for my search terms.

[joshvm]

They don't offer direct search, but isn't this what "key moments" is in search results? Try eg how to change a lightbulb.

I believe SeekToAction works even if the uploader didn't put chapters in. This was a relatively recent update, to make it fully automatic. So it's presumably doing some audio/video analysis to figure it out. All you need to do is tell Google how to seek your video (so it also works with non youtube videos too).

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2021/07/new-way-ke...

[mistermann]

Could you do a search based on their watch history if they have it enabled?

[hanniabu]

Do you cache the channel, search term, and results for faster more efficient responses later?

[Nowado]

I'm sure it would be, but then you're indexing whole youtube with respect to words spoken in each video. A thing that Google, arguably the best organization when it comes to indexing stuff, is working on.

[kellenmace]

Yes, my thoughts exactly. If Google decides that it's going to revamp YouTube search to include spoken word/transcription matches, that would make VideoMentions Search irrelevant– and I'd be okay with that!

In the meantime, I think this is a useful free tool for quickly finding spoken word matches within specific channels.

Thanks for checking it out!