LostArchiveTV

Discover the Internet Archive in a TikTok-style experience

✨ Archive.org Meets Modern Interface

LostArchiveTV reimagines how we explore the vast Internet Archive collection. Swipe through a curated stream of historical films, educational videos, and public domain treasures in a familiar, modern interface.

🔄 Bidirectional Swipe up for new videos, down for history

✂️ Trim & Save Extract perfect clips to your Photos

🔍 Smart Search Find videos using natural language

🚀 Key Features

• Intuitive Navigation - TikTok-style interface with bidirectional swiping
• Smart Preloading - Videos buffer before you need them with visual indicators
• Video Trimming - Select and save the perfect moments with timeline scrubbing
• Semantic Search - Find videos using natural language queries
• Content Discovery - Find similar videos based on what you're watching
• Favorites System - Save interesting discoveries for later viewing
• Time-Aware Playback - Smart time offsets to show interesting parts of longer videos

🧠 Powered By

• OpenAI - For natural language understanding and semantic search
• Pinecone - Vector database for finding similar content
• AVKit - High-performance video playback and processing
• SQLite - Efficient storage of video identifiers and collections

🛠️ Technical Highlights

• Advanced Preloading System with priority-based loading for seamless transitions
• Robust Caching with automatic recovery mechanisms
• Swift Concurrency (async/await) for smooth performance
• Protocol-Based Architecture for consistent video control interfaces
• Component-Based UI for unified experience across features

📱 Requirements

• iOS 18.0+
• Xcode 16.0+
• Swift 5.9+
• API Keys for OpenAI and Pinecone (see Setup)

🔧 Setup

API Keys

For the semantic search and similar videos features, you'll need:

1. OpenAI API key for embeddings
2. Pinecone API key and host for vector search

Developer Setup (Recommended)

1. Duplicate the "LostArchiveTV" scheme in Xcode (Product > Scheme > Manage Schemes)
2. Name it "LostArchiveTV-Dev" and add these environment variables:
   • OPENAI_API_KEY
   • PINECONE_API_KEY
   • PINECONE_HOST

CI/CD Setup

For Xcode Cloud or other CI systems, set the same environment variables in your build settings.

📚 Documentation

• Modern Swift Testing framework (not XCTest)
• Preloading and caching details in docs/preloading_and_cacheing.md

📄 License

MIT © LostArchiveTV