No Affordable Way to Search Across an Entire YouTube Channel's Video Archive
Users who follow content-heavy YouTube channels — especially those with extensive Q&A livestreams — have no practical way to search for when a specific topic was discussed across hundreds of videos. Existing tools either lack channel-level search or are prohibitively expensive. This affects researchers, fans, and professionals who use YouTube as a knowledge repository.
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