[HN Gopher] Show HN: Semantic search engine for Studio Ghibli movie
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Show HN: Semantic search engine for Studio Ghibli movie
Hi HN! I built Ghibli Search, a semantic search engine for Studio
Ghibli movie scenes (e.g. Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Howl's
Moving Castle, etc.). Describe a dreamscape like "flying through
clouds at sunset" or upload an image, and it finds visually similar
scenes from the films. Live demo: https://ghibli-
search.anini.workers.dev/ Full Cloudflare stack: Workers, AI
Search, R2, Workers AI Open source:
https://github.com/aninibread/ghibli-search Would love feedback on
the search quality and any ideas for improvements!
Author : aninibread
Score : 10 points
Date : 2026-01-21 14:01 UTC (8 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (ghibli-search.anini.workers.dev)
(TXT) w3m dump (ghibli-search.anini.workers.dev)
| buildsjets wrote:
| It's interesting that searches for general concepts (Countryside
| wildflowers, airplane scenes, train scenes) seem to work pretty
| well, while searches for specific characters (Ponyo, Yubaba,
| Porco Rosso) return negligible results.
| drivebyhooting wrote:
| "Malevolent spirits waiting at the bottom of a pit"
|
| Didn't return what I expected: the scene from spirited away when
| chihiro and haku fall through the trap door.
|
| Relevance can be improved with multiple ranking steps.
| mi_lk wrote:
| curious: can anyone use Ghibli's movie scenes on a random website
| just like that?
| observationist wrote:
| The site doesn't stream the movies, references still frames and
| the original works, and links directly back to the official
| site - there's no exploitation or arbitrage taking anything
| away from the studio.
|
| Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corp. (2003) and Perfect 10 v. Amazon
| (2007) are precedents for image search engines displaying
| thumbnails - they were found to be fair use. The function is
| transformative, the site is for a completely different use case
| than watching media, and doesn't harm the market.
|
| If they've purchased the movies legitimately, and have the
| receipts, they have an incredibly strong fair use case. Because
| it's beneficial to Studio Ghibli, I'd say they are best served
| by allowing it and not trying to exploit DMCA mechanisms to get
| them taken down.
|
| This is one of those areas where copyright holders can be
| assholes and abuse the system for petty wins, but the big tech
| companies have fought and won explicit precedent demonstrating
| the legitimacy of fair use cases for tools exactly like this.
|
| Awesome tool!
| nektro wrote:
| @dang this domain should probably be expanded from showing just
| workers.dev
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