SWIOZ REELS VIEWER.
A read-only exploration surface for short-form video data. Drop in a handle from any supported network to instantly view reels, audio tracks, view counts, and engagement metrics in one structured, searchable archive. No logins. No footprints. No credentials required.
What a reel capture looks like.
Each card below is one piece of a video snapshot — a reel cover, an audio track, a comment thread, a remix source. Hover any card to bring it forward; the viewer organizes them by chronology when you’re ready to work.
Nine surfaces. One viewer.
Every layer of a profile’s short-form video content, broken out into its own inspectable panel — searchable, filterable, and exportable on demand.
Inline playback
Play back short-form video content directly in the viewer without watermarks. Original resolution, frame rate, and aspect ratio are preserved exactly as they appeared at the moment of capture.
Audio tracks
Identify and extract the background audio track used in any reel. Original audio is separated from remixed tracks and linked back to the source music profile.
View metrics
See exact play counts, likes, shares, and saves for every captured reel. Compare engagement side-by-side across any date range or audio track.
Comment threads
Expand any reel to reveal its full comment tree — top-level replies, nested responses, timestamps, and engagement counts on each individual reply.
Remix & duet graph
Automatically detect if a reel is a remix or duet. Swioz links back to the original source video and maps the chain of derivative content.
Caption & hashtags
Full-text search across all reel captions. Hashtags, mentions, and URLs are parsed into their own queryable fields for granular filtering.
Cover extraction
Automatically extract the thumbnail cover frame selected by the user for each reel. Covers are content-addressed and can be downloaded as a batch.
Location index
Every geotagged reel is plotted on a single map. Click a pin to jump straight to the original video, or filter the entire archive by location.
Bulk MP4 export
Download an entire reel archive as MP4 files or JSON metadata. Structured for downstream analysis in video tools, spreadsheets, or BI platforms.
Built like an instrument, not a scraper.
Three core systems do the heavy lifting — a capture engine that respects rate boundaries, a structuring layer that turns raw video pages into queryable records, and an export pipeline that hands you back clean data.
Capture engine
Swioz reads only what is already visible. There is no credential handling, no impersonation, no bypassing of access controls — the engine treats the source the same way a browser would, only structured and reproducible.
- Read-only by design. No write operations, no liking, no posting, no interaction with the source profile.
- Video-accurate. Captures original MP4 streams without applying platform watermarks or compression degradation.
- Rate-aware. Requests are throttled and spaced to stay within the source’s own publishing rhythm.
- Timestamped. Every record carries the exact moment it was observed, not the moment it was published.
Structuring layer
Raw pages are rewritten into a normalized schema. A reel from any supported source looks the same in the viewer — same fields, same duration format, same audio keys — so cross-source comparison works without further wrangling.
- Unified schema. MP4s, audio tracks, and metrics share a single typed shape across all sources.
- Datetime normalization. All timestamps converted to UTC with original timezone preserved as metadata.
- Media hashing. Every video and audio track is content-addressed, so duplicates across reels are detected automatically.
- Caption parsing. Hashtags, mentions and URLs are extracted into their own queryable fields.
Export pipeline
Once a video archive is captured and structured, it leaves the viewer in whatever shape your downstream tools expect. Three primary formats, plus a raw dump for archival.
- MP4 Bundle — full fidelity videos, no watermarks, renamed by ID and timestamp.
- JSON — full fidelity, nested, ideal for programmatic analysis.
- CSV — flat reel-level table, drops straight into Excel or Google Sheets.
- Raw snapshot — the original page responses, for evidentiary archival.
Four moves from handle to archive.
Enter the handle
Drop a username into the search field. Swioz resolves it against the source, confirms the profile is accessible, and shows you a preview card before any video capture begins.
Pick your scope
Choose what you want to pull — reels only, reels plus audio metadata, full archive including comments and remix graphs. Date range optional.
Watch it unfold
The viewer streams records in as they’re captured — you don’t wait for a finished file. Start searching, filtering and playing videos while the capture is still running.
Export or stay
Download the structured video archive in the format you need, or keep the snapshot open in the viewer for as long as your session lasts. Captures can be re-opened from history.
Every part of the reel, its own panel.
Hover any tile to focus. The mosaic is the viewer’s navigation — each panel is one of the nine data surfaces, opened individually but cross-linked by video ID, audio track, location and timestamp.
Eight reasons people open Swioz.
Video data should be accessible, structured, and safe to explore. Swioz simply makes it readable.
Built for researchers, journalists, and analysts who need to view short-form video data without writing brittle scripts or crossing ethical lines.
Things people ask before they paste a handle.
Paste a handle. Watch the reels unfold.
No signup, no install, no credentials required. The reels viewer opens in your browser and the first capture starts in seconds.