# Search public video by what happens in it

Use cases for the shared video index: find the moment, not just the video.

- [How do I search TikTok and YouTube by what happens in a video?](https://uprock.ai/video/search-video-by-what-happens.md): Five searches we ran on UpRock's public video index, the moments they found across YouTube, TikTok and Instagram, and code that links to the exact second.
- [Is a transcript enough to search a video?](https://uprock.ai/video/transcripts-vs-video-search.md): Three real searches where the best moments had no transcript, a stock phrase or speech in another language, and when a transcript is enough and cheaper.
- [What does video AI cost in 2026? Indexing, search and storage](https://uprock.ai/video/video-understanding-costs.md): Indexing, search and storage prices for nine video AI services, checked on their own pages on 25 Oct 2026, and what 100 hours and 100,000 searches cost on each.
- [Can AI watch videos? Video understanding options for agents](https://uprock.ai/video/give-your-agent-eyes.md): A decision table for giving an agent video, from captions to a model that watches one video, a private index or a shared public index, with a tested function.

Setup for every client (MCP, skill, CLI): https://uprock.ai/agents.md