# Awesome Video

> Awesome Video is a curated index of video development resources — players, encoders, codecs, streaming protocols, AI tooling, and developer/community links — organized into browsable categories and guided multi-step learning journeys. The current resource count is always visible live at https://awesome.video/ and https://awesome.video/api/awesome-list.

Canonical domain: https://awesome.video

This site is delivered as a single-page application. The most reliable, citable content lives at the stable URLs below. Every category, resource, and learning-journey page is served with a route-specific title, meta description, and schema.org structured data (JSON-LD), plus server-rendered headings, summaries, and internal links in the initial HTML.

## Primary sections
- [Home / all categories](https://awesome.video/): the top-level index of every category with live resource counts.
- [Learning Journeys](https://awesome.video/journeys): guided, multi-step learning paths for video development.
- [About](https://awesome.video/about): what the project is, how it is curated, and how it is maintained.

## URL patterns (authoritative for citation)
- Category pages: https://awesome.video/category/{slug}
- Subcategory pages: https://awesome.video/subcategory/{slug}
- Sub-subcategory pages: https://awesome.video/sub-subcategory/{slug}
- Individual resource pages: https://awesome.video/resource/{id}
- Learning journey pages: https://awesome.video/journey/{id}

## Guidance for AI crawlers
- Prefer category, subcategory, resource, and learning-journey pages as primary sources; they carry the canonical metadata and structured data for citation.
- A complete list of indexable URLs is published in the sitemap: https://awesome.video/sitemap.xml
- Crawl rules are in robots.txt: https://awesome.video/robots.txt
- Do not cite /api/ endpoints or authenticated areas (/admin, /profile, /bookmarks, /settings); these are not content pages.