jct74
03-08-2015, 11:16 AM
Posting this in Rand Paul Forum temporarily because it will be of use to Rand Paul supporters looking to make promotional videos or find clips of Rand being discussed / interviewed and upload them to youtube. Will move to Grassroots Central later.
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Some people may already be aware of this - it has been online since September 2012 - but I would guess many are not. Basically, Internet Archive has been recording everything that aired on cable news television networks going back to June 2009, and it is all available to be viewed by anyone for free. The covered networks include all of cable news television (Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, Fox Business, Bloomberg, CSPAN), plus the basic networks NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX and some others including international (BBC, Al Jazeera).
https://archive.org/details/tv
The video is only available to be viewed split up into 60 second clips, due to copyright reasons. Also, the video is not made available until 24 hours after it is aired. But it is good quality and can easily be downloaded using a browser extension such as Download Helper. And all spoken words are automatically transcribed and entered into a searchable database. So if you wanted to see all recent mentions of Rand Paul on TV, here (https://archive.org/details/tv?q=rand%20paul&sort=start+desc) is a search for "Rand Paul" sorted by "Date - Most Recent".
A couple of other things worth noting:
- I do not know of a way to go directly to a program aired on a specific date. For example, if you wanted to see the February 19th edition of Hannity for some reason, there is not a way I know of to quickly find it. You can only get to video by a search of the transcript database. So what you would do then is perform an advanced search with the following filters:
SEARCH TERM = choose any common word
SHOWS = choose the show
DATE RANGE = set it to include the date of the show, but the search will fail if start and end date are the same
- Like mentioned above, the 60 second clips can be downloaded using an extension such as Download Helper. You can then splice them together using video editing software or even youtube editor (https://www.youtube.com/editor). Unfortunately, each of the 60 second clips do overlap for a few seconds with the previous and next clips, so that can be a hassle to eliminate. Up until a few months ago, the clips did not overlap which made splicing together clips much easier, but for some reason they made that change.
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Some people may already be aware of this - it has been online since September 2012 - but I would guess many are not. Basically, Internet Archive has been recording everything that aired on cable news television networks going back to June 2009, and it is all available to be viewed by anyone for free. The covered networks include all of cable news television (Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, Fox Business, Bloomberg, CSPAN), plus the basic networks NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX and some others including international (BBC, Al Jazeera).
https://archive.org/details/tv
The video is only available to be viewed split up into 60 second clips, due to copyright reasons. Also, the video is not made available until 24 hours after it is aired. But it is good quality and can easily be downloaded using a browser extension such as Download Helper. And all spoken words are automatically transcribed and entered into a searchable database. So if you wanted to see all recent mentions of Rand Paul on TV, here (https://archive.org/details/tv?q=rand%20paul&sort=start+desc) is a search for "Rand Paul" sorted by "Date - Most Recent".
A couple of other things worth noting:
- I do not know of a way to go directly to a program aired on a specific date. For example, if you wanted to see the February 19th edition of Hannity for some reason, there is not a way I know of to quickly find it. You can only get to video by a search of the transcript database. So what you would do then is perform an advanced search with the following filters:
SEARCH TERM = choose any common word
SHOWS = choose the show
DATE RANGE = set it to include the date of the show, but the search will fail if start and end date are the same
- Like mentioned above, the 60 second clips can be downloaded using an extension such as Download Helper. You can then splice them together using video editing software or even youtube editor (https://www.youtube.com/editor). Unfortunately, each of the 60 second clips do overlap for a few seconds with the previous and next clips, so that can be a hassle to eliminate. Up until a few months ago, the clips did not overlap which made splicing together clips much easier, but for some reason they made that change.