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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 transcript

by 6thbit 6mo ago

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.

gbnwl 6mo ago
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.
- 6thbit 6mo ago
  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.
eieio 6mo ago
I made a little TUI last month for searching within a channel! It supports before: / after:, fuzzy/exact/regex matching, lets you order by upload date/views/duration, lets you search over just a video's titles or descriptions, etc: https://github.com/nolenroyalty/yt-browse https://github.com/nolenroyalty/yt-browse The vast majority of my youtube watching is "go to a specific channel and try to find a certain kind of video" so it drives me nuts that youtube channel search is so bad (and afaik you can't search a channel on mobile?). I end up using my tool to find a bunch of videos and get them into my history to watch on my ipad. n.b. my tool downloads all video metadata for a channel and then searches over it locally, so it's pretty slow the first time you search a channel (results are cached for 24 hours though).
userbinator 6mo ago
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.
- nothercastle 6mo ago
  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.
KomoD 6mo ago
> 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 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
- extraduder_ire 6mo ago
  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.
  - KomoD 6mo ago
    > 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. That was previously the case for me, none of the results outside of the current view would show up. I just went to try, and I noticed that you can actually search in a transcript now!? There's a search bar

by 6thbit 6mo ago

gbnwl 6mo ago

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.

6thbit 6mo ago
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.

eieio 6mo ago

I made a little TUI last month for searching within a channel! It supports before: / after:, fuzzy/exact/regex matching, lets you order by upload date/views/duration, lets you search over just a video's titles or descriptions, etc: https://github.com/nolenroyalty/yt-browse https://github.com/nolenroyalty/yt-browse The vast majority of my youtube watching is "go to a specific channel and try to find a certain kind of video" so it drives me nuts that youtube channel search is so bad (and afaik you can't search a channel on mobile?). I end up using my tool to find a bunch of videos and get them into my history to watch on my ipad. n.b. my tool downloads all video metadata for a channel and then searches over it locally, so it's pretty slow the first time you search a channel (results are cached for 24 hours though).

userbinator 6mo ago

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.

nothercastle 6mo ago
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.

KomoD 6mo ago

> 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 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

extraduder_ire 6mo ago
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.
- KomoD 6mo ago
  > 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. That was previously the case for me, none of the results outside of the current view would show up. I just went to try, and I noticed that you can actually search in a transcript now!? There's a search bar