# Select video

*author: Chen Zhang*


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## Description

This operator select input list by simply aggregating, sorting and then filtering it.
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## Code Example

For two input lists: video urls and scores, aggregate url by reduce_function, then sort aggregated scores, then select top k results.

```python
import towhee

towhee.dc['video_urls', 'scores']([[['a', 'a', 'c', 'a', 'b', 'b', 'c', 'c'], [2, 8, 9.3, 5, 2, 1, 0, -1]]])\
.video_copy_detection.select_video[('video_urls','scores'), 'res'](top_k=2, reduce_function='mean', reverse=True)\
.show()
```

![](mean.png)   

```python
import towhee

towhee.dc['video_urls', 'scores']([[['a', 'a', 'c', 'a', 'b', 'b', 'c', 'c'], [2, 8, 9.3, 5, 2, 1, 0, -1]]])\
.video_copy_detection.select_video[('video_urls','scores'), 'res'](top_k=2, reduce_function='sum', reverse=True)\
.show()
```  
![](mean.png) 

```python
import towhee

towhee.dc['video_urls', 'scores']([[['a', 'a', 'c', 'a', 'b', 'b', 'c', 'c'], [2, 8, 9.3, 5, 2, 1, 0, -1]]])\
.video_copy_detection.select_video[('video_urls','scores'), 'res'](top_k=2, reduce_function='max', reverse=True)\
.show()
```

![](max.png) 


```python
import towhee

towhee.dc['video_urls', 'scores']([[['a', 'a', 'c', 'a', 'b', 'b', 'c', 'c'], [2, 8, 9.3, 5, 2, 1, 0, -1]]])\
.video_copy_detection.select_video[('video_urls','scores'), 'res'](top_k=2, reduce_function='min', reverse=True)\
.show()
```

![](min.png) 


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## Factory Constructor

Create the operator via the following factory method

***select_video(top_k: int, reduce_function: str, reverse: bool)***

**Parameters:**

​   ***top_k:*** *int*

​   Select top k result.


​   ***reduce_function:*** *str*

​   Aggregate function name, support name:
- sum
- mean
- max
- min

​   ***reverse:*** *bool*

​   Whether sorted result is reversed.

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## Interface


**Parameters:**

​	***video_urls:*** *List[str]*

​  Video urls.

​	***scores:*** *List[float]*

​  Every video scores.


**Returns:** *List[str]*

​   Selected video url results.