The Gemini API for Video Understanding is surprisingly good

Sun, 21 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

As I mentioned in Gemini’s URL Context feature is 90% hype, 10% value, I was pretty disappointed with Gemini’s “URL Context” feature. But “Video Understanding”? That one actually works like a charm.

How it works:

👉 Provide a YouTube video link
👉 Ask Gemini questions about the video
👉 Get a structured response back

For poketto.me, this unlocks a really neat feature: users can save any YouTube video in the app and either watch it later or read a textual description of the video.

Gemini’s “URL Context” feature is 90% hype, 10% value

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I’ll admit—I was pretty excited when Google announced that the Gemini API would support a new “URL Context” tool. The idea: you could “ask” Gemini about the content of a specific web page, with Google handling all the heavy lifting.

The documentation even shows a neat example: send Gemini two recipe URLs and prompt it to compare ingredients and cooking times. If it worked, this would’ve been a game-changer for poketto.me:

Gemini on Build in Public

The Gemini API for Video Understanding is surprisingly good

Gemini’s “URL Context” feature is 90% hype, 10% value