I'm assuming it's using the API to download captions and scanning them, which is why it'd need the Channel. It would be so hard to know where to begin without it!
Potentially future updates could search a logged in user's history?
Potentially future updates could search a logged in user's history?
I like your idea of searching the logged-in user's history! That could be handy. Another thing I've thought about is auto-importing all the channels they're subscribed to so they can search within those.
For the first version of VideoMentions Search, I kept things simple with a single "Channel URL" input field, but using their history/subscriptions is totally doable. I'll see if there's enough demand for that.
In any event, I still think that this simple first version has utility. I like being able to quickly pinpoint all the moments when a certain topic was mentioned across all of a channel's videos.
Thanks so much for taking a look, and for your feedback!
You're allowed to cache responses for a bit but not store them long term. "How would they know", etc of course, but if you're distributing the data they'll figure it out. Some smart cookies over there at Google.
My small website managed to get on their radar and I didn't even post it to HN!