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Re: Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters

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Post by AlBugdy »

QuantumNomad_ wrote: post #20
wincy wrote: post #11

For April Fools Sega released an (actual, real) “Sanic the Hedgeheg” t-shirt and I wanted to see if there was anything about it on YouTube. YouTube assumed I meant “sonic” and it was impossible to correct it and say “no I’m actually searching for this dumb meme”. It just assumes everyone who uses YouTube is really dumb I guess. (I bought the shirt by the way and am excited to get it lol)

I was curious after reading your comment and searched for sanic meme tshirt in the YouTube app. One result looked highly relevant, posted 4 days ago. It was a short, not a normal video mind you. Titled Official “Sanic” merchandise and having a picture of sanic and some dude’s face. Most of the rest of the results were from different dates, several ranging to years ago. But a lot of those other ones seemed to be about…

> It was a short, not a normal video mind you.

If anyone doesn't know, you can change shorts/ with watch?v= in the URL and it gives you the same UI as for other videos, including the controls (the time line). Not sure why YouTube doesn't have controls for shorts. I've seen some Facebook videos not having controls, either, when I've been sent a link. I imagine it's the same for Instagram and TikTok.

Re: Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters

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Post by mister_mort »

Gander5739 wrote: post #149
eMPee584 wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's another more hidden tool avail: right of the search type bar (images/news/books) there is a "search tools" menu where you can open "all results" and switch it to "verbatim". Often times a good way to see another defunct relict of old, quality google: the empty-result-troll that would once upon a time pull out his fishing rod on click..

A tangent, but this is the second time in two days I've seen the word spelled "often times" instead of "oftentimes". Is this some variant spelling I don't know of? I see it more than "oftentimes" now, which I was hitherto convinced was the only correct spelling.

I've never seen it spelled as "oftentimes".

Re: Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters

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Post by AlBugdy »

Vachyas wrote: post #143

I was hoping to finally see an advanced time filter so I could do something like "over 2 minutes" but it seems you've only got the same ones Youtube has ( 20). If it's an opaqueness restriction with the API or something, I'd like to suggest letting us at least combine the provided ones, so I could do something like (4-20) && (> 20) to get "over 4 minutes" which doesn't exist on Youtube but seems pretty useful. Anothe…

I wish I could select "between 2.5 and 6 minutes". That search can translate to 2 queries to YouTube (<4 and 4-20), then the results can be combined and pruned to keep only those between 2.5 and 6. To get enough videos if there aren't enough after pruning, we could access the 2nd, 3rd and so on pages from the results. But I doubt YouTube will like 6 searches in a row.

Re: Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters

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Post by Alifatisk »

maxxmod wrote: post #79
VenezuelaFree wrote: post #14

Search is the reason I stopped watching youtube, I used to view and discover so many nice stuff in there, tutorials, new hobbies, new music, new creators with different interests, etc but now it's pretty much impossible to find, you are forced to watch the 3 top videos, some 3 ads and then it forces you to watch some other random unrelated crap, it's so annoying and frustrating It got so bad that even searching the f…

It doesn’t solve all the issues you mention, but YouTube Search Fixer [1] [2] is a browser extension that at least lets you remove irrelevant results, Shorts, live streams, and more from search. It makes results a bit more usable. Disclaimer: I’m not affiliated with YouTube Search Fixer. I’m currently working on https://maxxmod.com , a YouTube-focused browser extension that will include search improvements, so I’ve r…

Wish I knew about this extension earlier.

Re: Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters

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Post by eager_learner »

wiether wrote: post #157
eager_learner wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Amazon is the same now. I can't find books on it that I know for sure exist on it. It always pushes something else first.

Search by ISBN works as expected for books

thanks.

Re: Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters

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Post by phendrenad2 »

I've just stopped using YouTube entirely. I'll watch the odd video that gets linked somewhere else, but I actively avoid going there. And this is as someone who used to pay for YouTube Premium. The site just doesn't value my time, and the company seems to think that I'll just accept watching whatever the algorithms decides I should watch. No thanks.

Re: Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters

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Post by a96 »

ddtaylor wrote: post #15

If anyone has a good solution to YouTube destroying all value of the Subscriptions page I am open ears. Until recently my consumption of YT was basically to go to my subscriptions page and see what new content had been released since I last watched YT.

Well, it's a semi nuclear one, but https://github.com/woefe/ytcc
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