What this is
This site indexes publicly available YouTube live streams and videos — traffic cams, harbor and beach webcams, city street live cams, dashcam footage, and more — and organizes them by category, country, and resolution. Everything here is a link to the original video on YouTube. We don't host, download, capture, or redistribute any video content ourselves.
Why it exists
Real-world camera footage is genuinely useful as a reference and testing resource for people building computer-vision and AI applications: traffic detection, object tracking, scene classification, and similar work all benefit from a variety of real camera angles and conditions to test against. This site was built to make that kind of footage easy to browse and discover by category, instead of digging through random search results on YouTube.
That said, this is a link directory, not a dataset. If you plan to use any of this footage for training or fine-tuning a model, you're responsible for getting the necessary rights and following YouTube's Terms of Service yourself — we don't provide a way to download or bulk-export video content, and we don't recommend doing so outside of what YouTube's own terms allow.
How to use it
- Browse by category — the left sidebar splits everything into Live and Video, then by category (traffic, harbor, beach, downtown, dashcam, etc.), with a count next to each so you can see how much is there before clicking in.
- Filter by quality — the quality dropdown above the grid filters by the actual resolution YouTube is serving, detected the first time someone plays that stream (not just YouTube's generic HD/SD flag).
- Search — the search box matches title and channel name.
- Click a thumbnail to open a modal with the embedded player, the direct YouTube URL (with a copy button), and a comment thread for that specific video.
- Sign in with Google to submit a new link, set a custom nickname, favorite streams with a personal note, and upvote/downvote existing entries.
- Submitted links start as "Pending Approval" (visible under its own sidebar entry) and become permanent once either 3 other users upvote it or an admin approves it. Submissions that don't get approved within 7 days are automatically removed.
- Have an idea or found a problem? Post it on the feedback board — you can also upvote other people's suggestions there.
Content moderation
Anyone can downvote a stream; after enough downvotes it's soft-hidden pending review rather than deleted outright, so a handful of bad votes can't permanently erase something by mistake. Admins can also review and remove individual links or, if needed, an entire channel.