# IndexReel

- **Event:** [Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon)
- **When:** Oct 26, 12:00 PM – Nov 4, 9:00 PM (EST)
- **Where:** Online
- **Team:** [Mohiddin Shaik](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/mohiddin7)
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/mohiddin7/IndexReel
- **Demo video:** https://youtu.be/pVG6McdjDR8
- **Gallery:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery
- **Page:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/3653

When something happens, old videos come back as if they were new. A clip from years ago gets a new caption and a million views, and ten posts of one camera's footage look like ten witnesses.

IndexReel answers two questions about the videos behind a story. First, is this video really new? It searches YouTube and the web for earlier uploads of the same footage. When it confirms one, it shows the earlier copy and its date side by side with the post, at the same moment. Second, how many separate recordings are there? It groups posts by the recording they came from, flags compilations, and shows the matching frames for every link so you can check it yourself. It also reads each caption's claims. If one recording turns out to be old, IndexReel shows which claims just lost their only video.

It is deployed on my Mac: on X as @askIndexReel, which answers when tagged under a video, and as a local page for reviewing groups, evidence and claims. On a real post from October 2026, captioned as an earthquake in Panama, it checked the post's four videos in order and found the third one on YouTube in 2017.

Every test was written down, with its pass bar, before it ran, and the failures are published next to the passes. In the blind reviews of its earlier-copy tests, no copy it showed was judged a different recording. Finding the earlier copy is the hard part, and it still misses most of them. Today it searches YouTube directly through its API and reaches other platforms only through a web search. Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X can be searched directly once those platforms give API access.

## More from Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon

- [DreamTeam](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/3650)
- [ArborPulse](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/3651)
- [TestBench](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/3652)
- [EvalVerse](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/3654)
- [FlowSME](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/3655)
- [Abdo](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/3656)

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