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For AI agents: docs.octen.ai/capabilities/video-search.md

Some answers live in videos: a tutorial that shows the steps, a talk that makes the argument, a demo that proves the product. The hard part is finding the right one across the web. Octen Video Search searches the web for videos from a text query and returns ranked results with rich metadata, ready to preview, embed, or pass to a model. For the full list of parameters, see the Video Search API reference.
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  • Video lookup and clip discovery. Find the right video across the whole web from one query.
  • Richer answers. Let assistants and apps reply with playable videos when showing beats telling.
  • Reference for generation. Retrieved videos serve as real-world references for generation models, grounding image and video creation.

How It Works

  1. Send a text query.
  2. Octen searches videos across the web and ranks them.
  3. Each result returns the video and its source page, with title, description, cover image, duration, and publish time.

Scenarios

Find the right video

Video lookup from a plain text query.

Answer with videos

When a question is best answered visually, return videos an assistant can show directly in its reply.

Collect generation references

Search real footage first, then pass the results to a generation model as references for grounded image or video creation.

Recent videos

Keep results to a recent time window, filtered by publish time.

Next Steps

Try in Console

Run Video Search live in the Octen console.

Video Search API Reference

Full request/response schema.