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

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Post by NooneAtAll3 »

kalleboo wrote: post #98
adito wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What got me really mad is searching your own history. There's this "search watch history" on the https://www.youtube.com/feed/history I remember watching video that contains certain word in the title. A minecraft contraption from a small channel (4 videos, 93 subs). I searched that word in the title. But youtube can't find it. Fortunately, I saved the world download that listed in the video with the name of the chann…

Google.com is a lot better at searching YouTube than YouTube is at searching YouTube

I prefer googling in duckduckgo

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

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Post by Esn024 »

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) Search only for videos that have subtitles in a specific language

4) more detailed length search for the "over 20 minutes" category (e.g. over 40 minutes, over 60 minutes, etc)

All of these are things that I have desperately wished existed over the past few years, and which would have sometimes saved me a lot of time.

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

#103

Post by kristopolous »

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)

if there's no way to successfully attest competency then you are allocating your time poorly.

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

#104

Post by hexage1814 »

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.

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

#105

Post by hexage1814 »

adito wrote: post #65
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…

What got me really mad is searching your own history. There's this "search watch history" on the https://www.youtube.com/feed/history I remember watching video that contains certain word in the title. A minecraft contraption from a small channel (4 videos, 93 subs). I searched that word in the title. But youtube can't find it. Fortunately, I saved the world download that listed in the video with the name of the chann…

>I remember watching video that contains certain word in the title

You could use youtube-dl to download the all automatic subtitles those videos and then search.

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

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Post by RobotToaster »

adito wrote: post #65
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…

What got me really mad is searching your own history. There's this "search watch history" on the https://www.youtube.com/feed/history I remember watching video that contains certain word in the title. A minecraft contraption from a small channel (4 videos, 93 subs). I searched that word in the title. But youtube can't find it. Fortunately, I saved the world download that listed in the video with the name of the chann…

I seem to remember at one point there was a bug (or "bug") where watches wouldn't be tracked if you used an adblocker.

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

#110

Post by dns_snek »

tyrust wrote: post #91
wswope wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly the sort of user hostility I’d expect from a google employee. Shameful. Maybe if practical tools such as like-ratios were in place users could sort good content from bad.

Good thing I work on internal infrastructure and not pointing a gun to this guy's head to prevent him from scrolling down past the first three results or refining his query.

There is no "scrolling down past the first 3 results" because everything after that is recommended garbage that's unrelated to the search query. And as they already said, "refining the search query" doesn't work because it wouldn't find the video even if they searched its exact title.

Furthermore, search is fundamentally broken in that it translates your query and then tries to match every title in every language that is vaguely similar. Of course it still only gives you a handful of results before listing off unrelated recommendations in the "search results".

Search used to work great ~10 years ago and I used to find majority of content that way. These days it's so useless I don't really bother trying anymore.

Reading comments like this really shines a light on why Youtube is as bad as it is, I didn't expect the employees to be this out of touch with the product that their company makes.

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