A website that generates your 2023 YouTube Wrapped. See an interactive view for your watching habits and top creators. Share your YouTube Wrapped with friends.
Hey PH! I'm Anthony, builder of Video Recap.
In 2022, my YouTube watching hit a peak as I consumed content from variety and gaming to educational video essays. I really wanted some way to summarize and analyze my watching habits to identify trends, just like Spotify’s ‘Wrapped.’ There wasn’t any, and I found out why when I tried building one myself: the YouTube API doesn’t support that.
Using a different solution, I was able to release the first version of Video Recap in December 2022, and reception was great! Over 1M users in the first month including content creators such as Ludwig Ahgren. This year, I’m happy to share that Video Recap is back for 2023.
A quick look at what’s the site offers:
- High-level overview of watching habits and top creators
- Time-related stats for your watching habits
- Identify growing creators you watch
- Fun interpretations of your interests
- Look back at your first and most watched videos
- Shareable recap image
- Exclude specific creators from the recap who might no longer be relevant for the year
- Correctly calculates the watchtime for YouTube Shorts creators and long-form creators
- Dashboard to analyze your data for any time period at a more granular level
I would appreciate you giving it a try, and I hope you had as much fun as I did looking through my stats for the year! Feel free to reach out here or send a message to @yihonganthony on Twitter for any questions
@yihonganthony@eightants Video Recap seems like a great tool for YouTube users, Anthony! It's interesting how you've created a Spotify 'Wrapped'-style summary for YouTube watching habits. The features for analyzing top creators, time stats, and customizable data analysis are impressive.
Curious about how Video Recap ensures user data privacy with such detailed insights. Looking forward to trying it and exploring my own YouTube trends!
Congratulations, Team Video Recap on your innovative launch on Producthunt! I absolutely love the idea of getting an interactive view of my YouTube habits. How awesome would it be if we could include a feature that suggests new creators and channels based on our watching habits? Keep rockin' the tech world with your fresh ideas.
Report
At first I thought there's some bug in my YT history takeout. The earliest timestamp in the json file is from 2023-09, which is absolutely wrong. After some digging, I found out that I had enabled "auto-delete watch history every 3 months". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 🤦♂️
@vicky_buddie Great catch, this has been a sporadically reported issue, so that's good to know
Report
Hey Anthony! Congrats on the success of Video Recap! It sounds like a super cool tool for YouTube watchers. Just curious, what were some of the most interesting trends you noticed in your own watching habits? Keep up the great work! 😄🎉
@goyashy I noticed that I watch most of my videos at night, which wasn't extremely surprising. It was surprising to see how much YouTube I watched when put into actual numbers.
Impressed by Video Recap's features for YouTube enthusiasts! The high-level overview and time-related stats are game-changers for tracking watching habits. Curious if you plan to expand to other platforms in the future? Congrats, @eightants on the launch!
It is so cool that you just released this product launch @eightants ! I'm sure it must have taken a lot of hard work and creativity to make and it looks great.
Report
cool app congratulations 🎊 can we export as video?
Video Recap
Hai
Crustdata
Video Recap
Video Recap
Dualite
Build Check
Video Recap