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Extracting data from video
How extraction from video actually works, what it costs, and what we find when we run it over hundreds of videos. Measurements come with what they were measured on.
- 6 October 2026 · 8 min readMachine Learning Data Extraction from YouTube VideosHow machine learning turns what is said in videos into typed data: captions, chunking, a specialized extraction model, types and grounding, and per-mention rows you can aggregate.
- 4 October 2026 · 9 min readHow to Analyze YouTube Trends: Data API to Structured DataCollect a niche's recent videos with the YouTube Data API for a few quota units, extract typed rows with TubeExtract, and turn them into a weekly trend table. Full scripts.
- 29 September 2026 · 12 min readWhat Is Named Entity Recognition vs Structured ExtractionNER as a machine learning task: BIO tagging, softmax, CRF and span models, evaluation and hard cases, and how structured extraction generalises it, on video.
- 28 September 2026 · 6 min readWhere Food YouTube Ate Last Month: 500 Videos MappedEvery restaurant, cafe, bar and food stall visited in 500 top food videos (29 Aug to 28 Sep 2026). Charts, a searchable table and the CSV, one row per video.
- 26 September 2026 · 8 min readWhich Assets Finance YouTube Was Bullish On Last MonthEvery stock, fund, coin and commodity named in 305 top finance videos (26 Aug to 26 Sep 2026), with sentiment. Charts, an explorer and the CSV.
- 25 September 2026 · 10 min readCan ChatGPT Analyze YouTube Videos? What Actually WorksNot from a link. What ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini receive from a YouTube URL, what captions cost against video tokens, and how to extract data from many videos.