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.

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I have found that this method is unreliable. If I run a Google search for "the "paradox of choice. You have so many choices, how do you know which one to pick? Even when I recommend to newer developers in the React", no YouTube video results are displayed, despite the fact that that exact string of text exists in the transcript of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQntFkK8Z54

That's why I built VideoMentions Search. It pulls in the transcript for every video within the channel and date range you selected and shows you any and all matches.

Also - even when a Google search does work to find a video based on spoken words, all you're given is a link to that video's page. You can't see all the times that keyword was mentioned within the video and click on one of those mentions to jump to that exact moment in the video, like you can with VideoMentions Search.

If Google/YouTube added those capabilities, then VideoMentions Search would be irrelevant. In the meantime though, I think it's a useful free tool for quickly finding spoken word matches within a specific channel.

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Thank you! I don't do anything fancy at the moment. The matching videos are presented in reverse chronological order. So you'll see the most recent videos that contain the keywords at the top, then older video matches as you scroll down the page. And the user provides the URL of the single YouTube channel they want to search within.

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Currently, YouTube does not reliably include spoken word/transcript matches in search results. You would have to manually open each individual video in a browser tab, open the transcript, hit cmd/ctrl+f and search for the words you're interested in. And if you need to search tens/hundreds/thousands of videos, that would take a very long time.

VideoMentions Search allows you to specify the channel URL, keywords and date range, then does all that hard work for you, quickly locating all videos that contain those keywords.

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Thank you for responding. This looks like a very cool project.

Hey @pks016 - if you recall a new channel URLs that didn't work, can you please reply with them? Then I can look into why and fix that bug.

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Thanks for bringing this up, @atleta– I'll look into why that particular channel URL doesn't work.

Thanks @ojiwan! Yeah, that's precisely what the paid offering on the VideoMentions.com homepage is. It currently emails the user once for each matching video, but in the future, I could certainly add support for grouping them and sending weekly digests, like you're describing.

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Nice! Glad to be of assistance :)

Nice! Perfect timing, then! Glad you're finding it useful! :)

Cool @happy_pancake! Nice use-case! Is your project still online somewhere?