This team scraped 2.1M shortform videos and ranked them by sales intent
eptwts · x · 2026-09-07
The author describes a self-built shortform ad-intelligence pipeline that has already qualified 2.1M videos:
- Scrapes IG/TikTok videos
- Extracts content that sells something
- Pulls full context on what's happening in each video
- Ranks by sales intent (likelihood to convert)
- Stores the link to whatever is being sold
- Categorizes by product type, content type, etc.
Quoted from another post: an Astra-built page scans top-performing shortform formats and recommends formats based on the user's own content spikes, refreshing weekly.
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