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"Which Episode Was That Again?" — Anyway, I Indexed a Cult Series

on YouTube 20m
TalkinFrenchat DevFest Nantes 2025 · 2025-10-16..10-17· [data-engineering, developer-experience]

speaker

name:Tim Carry
website:http://www.pixelastic.com/

resources

video:https://youtu.be/tVohBH0rcbc
slides:none on file

summary

They built brefsearch.com to let users find and replay any scene from season 1 of the French series «Bref» by typing a few keywords. The talk explains converting a YouTube playlist into a searchable index using command-line tools, SaaS services, front-end optimization, and some AI to power the search and playback experience.

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chapters (11)

  1. 0:00Bref series intro
  2. 1:16Speaker and series
  3. 3:23Finding Bref scenes
  4. 4:48BrefSearch website
  5. 7:00Data extraction tools
  6. 9:24YouTube auto-subtitle limits
  7. 10:27AI for subtitles
  8. 12:14FFMPEG for media
  9. 13:18UI and Algolia
  10. 15:22Performance optimizations
  11. 18:32Conclusion

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