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Video scraping: extracting JSON from a 35s screen capture for 1/10th of a cent

(simonwillison.net)
302 points simonw | 2 comments | 17 Oct 24 12:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
1. Havoc ◴[18 Oct 24 12:47 UTC] No.41878930[source]▶
Still amazed that video is so "cheap" on tokens despite being way more bytes than text
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2. odo1242 ◴[19 Oct 24 19:55 UTC] No.41890291[source]▶
Pretty sure there's some strong preprocessing bring applied to that video though. Maybe even to the point of extracting text and deduplicating it between frames.