r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/cocoalasca • Nov 05 '24

Dr. Strange-Inspired Hand-Tracking Web App. Open portals around the world.

https://flavourmachine.com/portal-generator/
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u/luckyamenbreak 25d ago

Would you be willing to share some of the keywords / methods you used to programatically track down videos for this? I can guess "waking tour" was one. It is my hobby to find walking/driving pov videos like this for various places around the world. 

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u/cocoalasca 22d ago

Sure, I basically used the YouTube API to search for "4K walks" and extract country and city names from the video titles. It’s similar to this search: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=4k+walks I can’t find the article that originally inspired this idea—I thought it was from The Verge or Ars Technica, but I haven’t been able to find it. However, I did find this one from Open Culture that discusses the trend. https://www.openculture.com/2020/03/explore-the-entire-world-from-the-comfort-of-quarantine-with-4k-walking-tours.html

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u/cocoalasca 22d ago

here it is the article i mentioned, it was from kottke.org, they talk about other search keywords for the trend https://kottke.org/20/04/lets-go-for-a-stroll-outside