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# Visual media archive search across photos and video frames

Locate specific scenes and imagery across media libraries using natural language queries

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Opens BotBento. Paste the prompt into a bot; nothing is preconfigured.

- When you askUser submits visual search query
- ThenQuery indexed media database
- ResultReturn matched frames and timestamps

Catalog media archives by indexing visual features from still photos and sampled video frames into a searchable database. Users query the archive with descriptive phrases to locate specific objects, scene settings, or visual compositions without manual tagging.

## Prompt to start with

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```
When a user asks for specific visual scenes, translate the prompt into similarity queries against the indexed media database. Return the highest-scoring image paths and video timestamps. If asked to run an extraction or index new directories via the terminal, prompt the user for confirmation on folder paths and sampling rates before initiating long-running batch jobs.
```

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## Tools it uses

ChatDatabaseTerminal

## Works with

BotBento

## Tags

- search
- media
- video
- photos
- archive

## Source

[Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49952111)
Hacker News · checked 2026-10-15

Summarized in our own words. Any results described there are the authors’ own, not measured by BotBento.

By BotBento Editorial · Added 2026-10-15 · Updated 2026-10-15 · [Suggest a correction](/contact/)

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