Scan YouTube archive for motion-detection?

TheWaterbug

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I have several cameras that stream to YouTube almost constantly, watching for an event to happen, such as a swarm of bees moving in or an owl moving in. When this happens, it's easy for me to find out when it happened, because the pre- and post-event streams are so completely different.

But sometimes I want to see if a transient event happened, such as a rat going inside my box and chewing on stuff, and then leaving. Or an owl checking out my owl box, but not staying.

Is there an application out there that can take a sequence of YouTube URLs and scan them for motion? There are many hours of footage, so doing this manually is completely impractical. For example here is 6:46 of absolutely nothing happening. Unless something did happen:


I didn't have motion detection turned on in-camera, and several of these cameras don't have any option for local storage anyway.
 
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