iopho-searching-videos — Cross-Platform Video Search

Search for videos across multiple platforms and return structured metadata — without downloading anything.

Prerequisites

Check what's available:

!which yt-dlp 2>/dev/null && echo "yt-dlp: ✓" || echo "yt-dlp: ✗ — install via: pip install yt-dlp or brew install yt-dlp"

!python3 -c "from duckduckgo_search import DDGS; print('duckduckgo-search: ✓')" 2>/dev/null || echo "duckduckgo-search: ✗ (optional) — install via: pip install duckduckgo-search"

Minimum requirement: yt-dlp (covers 19+ platforms with native search). Optional: duckduckgo-search for cross-platform web video search aggregation.

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