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

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Post by AlBugdy »

Vachyas wrote: post #182
AlBugdy wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yea and I'm doubtful we'll see a service willing to do their own post-processing per-query while also being at the whim of Youtube's API (official or not). Ultimately, I would like these features to come to Youtube itself since there's a lot of nice features built into it that would be hard for a third-party to replicate without permission (such as playing videos inline on hover, with captions).

I doubt it will ever happen. This is Google after all, not a small company we can hope will get it right after a while. They've left the search parameters shitty for years. Google, arguably the most advanced search company ever, can't make an efficient filter for custom time ranges? They obviously can, but, as other comments have noted, they seem to think that good search is an anti-feature.

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

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Post by 6thbit »

gbnwl wrote: post #28
6thbit wrote: post #22

I still can’t believe they don’t let you search videos within a channel for example. Or filter out music playlist from video ones. Or search within transcripts. It’s peak irony a company owned by the search overlord.

You can search videos within a channel, go to the channel page and look for the magnifying glass all the way at the end of the nav bar that has Home | Videos | Shorts | Playlists | Posts | *Magnifying glass here* Well at least in browser its there, I can't find it on mobile for whatever reason.

you're right! i was only looking at the mobile version. Sucks it's not there cause I typically don't have my pc around when infront of the TV and wanna search something.

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

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Post by msephton »

thfuran wrote: post #21
msephton wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just put the term in quotes "sanic the hedgeheg" ignore the suggestions and press enter to see the real results.

Google no longer cares much about quotes. Sometimes it’ll take them seriously and sometimes not.

Then it's a good job we're talking about YouTube, not Google search, and that I tested what I described before posting.

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

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Post by spacec0wb0y »

That's pretty useful. On the form, the "Date before" and "Date after" field naming is confusing. I'd expect the earlier date to display first and be called "from" rather than "Date after". You could probably restrict the date fields too so users can't pick dates in the future

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

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Post by efilife »

throw7 wrote: post #24

Just asking: Is there an open source project that I can self-host that can organize my current subscriptions into separate groups/categories and make things easy to view/hide/digest? Many moons ago, I could hover and hide a video I didn't want to see in my feed with a single click. Best UX user feature evar... it was gone in a week or two I feel. I'm kinda ashamed to say I have multiple youtube accounts to keep my sa…

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

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Post by nevernothing »

hexage1814 wrote: post #104

You should add this option to filter shorts: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s&sp=CAI%253D Also, related project: https://filmot.com/search/radiohead%20/1/1?sortField=uploadd... It allows you to do text to full search on youtube videos. The project obviously didn't index ALL youtube videos subtitles, but it easily index millions of youtube subtitles.

Thanks for the tip, the Shorts filter is now on by default.

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

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Post by nevernothing »

Esn024 wrote: post #102

Nice work! Does this use the YouTube data API behind the scenes? https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/search/list Also, would adding any of the following be possible? 1) Search for specific video quality (standard YouTube search already does this - you can ask for "HD", but would it be possible to search for more specific qualities such as 480p, 720p, etc?) 2) Search for videos only in a specific language 3)…

The search form does not use the YouTube Data API. It's essentially a link generator. Unfortunately YouTube doesn't offer filters for point 1–4.

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

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Post by nevernothing »

Vachyas wrote: post #146
Esn024 wrote: post #102

Nice work! Does this use the YouTube data API behind the scenes? https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/search/list Also, would adding any of the following be possible? 1) Search for specific video quality (standard YouTube search already does this - you can ask for "HD", but would it be possible to search for more specific qualities such as 480p, 720p, etc?) 2) Search for videos only in a specific language 3)…

I'd like to second that I wish a lot of those existed. For 1), 60fps is another good one. It seems Youtube also removed "sort by upload date" if I'm not mistaken. The closest we can get now is the "uploaded today" filter but it's not the same since it still seems to prioritize popularity over recency, surfacing mostly second-hand sources or popular "reactions" to the primary-source videos (that also exist on Youtube!…

Yes, there was a filter for the last hour, I think they got rid of it this year.

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

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Post by lelandfe »

whilenot-dev wrote: post #111
lelandfe wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For instance, searching the quoted (random phrase) "pants butler" produces first page results like: "pants,” Butler" and "pants...Butler" and "Pants - Butler's" Second page loses it entirely, with results like "BUTLER SVC Green Back Country Cargo Pants" and another that seemingly lacks "butler" anywhere on the page.

There's a whole list of search operators: https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-advanced-search-operators/#li...

Given that that page describes quotes as "working," I'm not so sure how much effort was put into its testing.
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