Recently I’ve pretty much replaced searching Yelp or TripAdvisor with a combination of Instagram Reels/TikToks and Google maps for travel and food recommendations. I usually just save a lot of places that I have to dig through and watch again to dig through and add to my saved Google maps lists. Because this takes me a fair bit of time when preparing for a trip, I decided to automate part of it by building a pipeline to “watch” the video for me by getting the audio and video frame data and taking into account key POIs that I then export out to a note. Later I plan to also integrate this with other travel or food tracking software like Wanderlog, Google maps list, or Beli eats. So far it’s been working well, but def expensive (so thank god for free GCP credits haha)