Show HN: YouTube search barely works, I made a search form with advanced filters

https://playlists.at/youtube/search/

49•nevernothing•1h ago

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dev1ycan•1h ago

This is just adding the hidden filters such as

before:[date]: Finds videos uploaded before a specific date.

Example: space exploration before:2020-01-01

after:[date]: Finds videos uploaded after a specific date.

Example: tech news after:2024-01-01

To an UI, right?

throw_m239339•1h ago

As long I doesn't shove "shorts" or "other people watched" in the result list, it's an improvement. Sometimes the results are so egregious and completely unrelated to the search terms that I feel like youtube wants to piss me off on purpose. I don't want to be searching some quantum physics video and get videos of some barely clothed women in Miami, I fail to see how it is related...

tremarley•47m ago

Enshittification is the reason

awesome_dude•1h ago

I think that it's a fair title - it takes the "hidden" search terms and brings them to the surface for users.

The (default) YouTube search is barely useful

They have made a search WITH the advanced features available

Everything as advertised (IMO)

bryanhogan•54m ago

One of the problems with YouTube seach is that they also stop showing you what you searched for after a couple of videos, instead you get the same crap you find on the homepage, which is bewildering.

prophesi•51m ago

One of the first things I do on a new device is install an extension to expose these hidden filters, and to hide recommended videos + redirect the homepage to the subscriptions tab.

cure_42•46m ago

What extension exposes the hidden filters???

prophesi•32m ago

You could probably vibe-code it if it doesn't exist. You're literally just adding extra parameters to the search request. Hard part is creating the interface for it. Saw more options looking for Firefox extensions than Chrome for this, though that might be expected.

lucb1e•28m ago

> One of the first things I do on a new device is install an extension to ...

< [which one]

> vibe-code it if it doesn't exist

So it doesn't exist? I don't understand what I'm reading. (Plus the suggestion to create more slopware)

prophesi•22m ago

> You're literally just adding extra parameters to the search request

> Saw more options looking for Firefox extensions than Chrome for this, though that might be expected.

Sorry if I wasn't clear enough in my comment that it's a very trivial feature.

edit: The irony that this very submission is probably AI generated? There's no link to their source code, and there's a tab titled "AI Generator" for AI generated playlists?

nevernothing•43m ago

You're basically right, it's just a UI for the old search filters, at least for the ones that still work today.

atum47•56m ago

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.

wincy•38m ago

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)

msephton•17m ago

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

thfuran•14m ago

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

QuantumNomad_•15m ago

I was curious after reading your comment and searched for sanic meme tshirt in the YouTube app. One result looked highly relevant, posted 4 days ago. It was a short, not a normal video mind you. Titled Official “Sanic” merchandise and having a picture of sanic and some dude’s face. Most of the rest of the results were from different dates, several ranging to years ago. But a lot of those other ones seemed to be about meme sanic as well at least.

I didn’t click on any of them to verify, lest YouTube decides that it should replace my whole YouTube home page with sonic fandom and sanic memes :P

VenezuelaFree•27m ago

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 full tittle of the video doesnt show you that video haha

gsky•5m ago

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

ddtaylor•23m ago

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.

atomicfiredoll•15m ago

Things like FreeTube and NewPipe let you keep a subscription list, even if you watch the videos elsewhere.

Using them can be a pain with the whole cat and mouse thing, but at least it's something (for now... I wouldn't be shocked if google was partially gunning for projects like NewPipe specifically with the Android app installation changes.)

loveparade•8m ago

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).

jeffbee•2m ago

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

loveparade•19m ago

The whole Youtube experience has gotten so bad over the years. I love the youtube content, but I wish I didn't have to deal with the UI/UX and recommendations that the YT app forces on me.

Annoying Shorts. I'm trying to keep my watch history clean to "steer" recommendations, but YT keeps adding things to it that I didn't actually watch just because I happened to hover my mouse over a video, etc.

6thbit•12m 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•2m 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

Well at least in browser its there, I can't find it on mobile for whatever reason.

dbbk•10m ago

It works perfectly fine.

throw7•9m ago

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.

SilverElfin•8m ago

Really wish there was an alternative. Especially to the manipulation of it all by YouTube (demonetization and other tactics).

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