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

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Post by KomoD »

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.

> I still can’t believe they don’t let you search videos within a channel for example.

Uh, yeah, they do.

https://www.youtube.com/@PuddleOfMuddTV/search?query=blurry

> Or search within transcripts.

Yeah, I also wish this were possible using the normal CTRL+F just doesn't work properly

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

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Post by phyzix5761 »

I want to be able to search youtube videos for specific content. Like a middle aged man talking about football who is wearing a light blue shirt and holding a sports bottle. With AI we should be able to do that but maybe the compute cost is currently too high. I envision it sort of like a SQL for video search.

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

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Post by moralestapia »

YouTube search went to absolute trash, same as Gmail, same as Google the search engine.

Many time I search for a video I know the title of, letter by letter, in quotes, and it does not show up (at least in the first 50 or so results). Sometimes I think the video might have been deleted, only to find it out later in my bookmarks and realizing this is not the case.

Crazy how them being fundamental to what we all know as "the web" nowadays, allows them to get away with being extremely mediocre and oblivious to user's needs.

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

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Post by throw7 »

dugite-code wrote: post #33
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…

Yes any RSS reader works for this task. There are two types of channel RSS feeds https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id= And the older https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user= Youtube used to have an opml export button but there are a few github projects that convert the youtube subscription csv that dumps out of the account data export. Edit: If you want to filter out shorts using the selfhosted a…

ok thanks!, i never knew there was an rss feed for each channel/users... that does open up solutions.

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

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Post by extraduder_ire »

KomoD wrote: post #41
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.

> I still can’t believe they don’t let you search videos within a channel for example. Uh, yeah, they do. https://www.youtube.com/@PuddleOfMuddTV/search?query=blurry > Or search within transcripts. Yeah, I also wish this were possible using the normal CTRL+F just doesn't work properly

I've had ctrl+f work for searching within the transcript on the page recently. I assumed it wouldn't due to lazy loading, but was surprised because the video I tried it on was quite long.

filmot.com exists too (found it on here, currently can't get past the cloudflare captcha to double check), but I have no idea how much of youtube's transcripts it has archived.

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

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Post by storus »

moralestapia wrote: post #43

YouTube search went to absolute trash, same as Gmail, same as Google the search engine. Many time I search for a video I know the title of, letter by letter, in quotes, and it does not show up (at least in the first 50 or so results). Sometimes I think the video might have been deleted, only to find it out later in my bookmarks and realizing this is not the case. Crazy how them being fundamental to what we all know a…

I am forced to use Yandex just to find stuff Google or DDG never shows anymore.

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

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Post by nothercastle »

userbinator wrote: post #32
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.

It’s peak irony a company owned by the search overlord. ...whose search engine has itself become noticeably less of a search engine and more of a recommendation/sheeple-herding engine over time.

Google of today would absolutely get steamrolled by any of the search engines it used to compete against. Now granted the web of today is mostly a toxic waste pile vs more of a cluttered basement back then.

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

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Post by carefree-bob »

storus wrote: post #46
moralestapia wrote: post #43

YouTube search went to absolute trash, same as Gmail, same as Google the search engine. Many time I search for a video I know the title of, letter by letter, in quotes, and it does not show up (at least in the first 50 or so results). Sometimes I think the video might have been deleted, only to find it out later in my bookmarks and realizing this is not the case. Crazy how them being fundamental to what we all know a…

I am forced to use Yandex just to find stuff Google or DDG never shows anymore.

Interesting. Do you have some examples?

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

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Post by lelandfe »

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.

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.

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