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

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Post by thfuran »

msephton wrote: post #18
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)

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.

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

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Post by throw7 »

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 sanity, but yeah.

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

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Post by loveparade »

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.

You could manage your subscriptions in an RSS reader, that's what I used to do. Each channel has multiple RSS feeds associated with it for different types of videos (live, vod, etc).

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

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Post by gsky »

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…

on top of that it pushes worst creators (who are the biggest thanks to yt) content.

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

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Post by gbnwl »

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.

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

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Post by jeffbee »

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.

That's ... exactly what the subscriptions feed does right now?

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

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Post by jeffbee »

atum47 wrote: post #5

I'm not popular enough to write a post about everything that is wrong with YouTube, from recommending the same few videos over and over again in different "categories" to ALL the results of a search being cringe shorts no one wants to see.

I know it's really really loud in your echo chamber but short form videos are extremely popular.
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