Invidious: Add filters for searching

[Zero3K]

It would be nice if there were search filters added that could let a user see videos uploaded during a certain time frame, sort them by date, etc.

[omarroth]

Absolutely! Invidious already supports them internally, they would just need to be exposed nicely. See #30 to see more on how they would probably be implemented. to provide some info here as well, it would probably look like sort:relevance, date:today, etc, similar to Reddit or DDG.

[omarroth]

Added with 2ba0063, you can see the supported options here.

You can specify filters in your search query, for example:
sort:rating date:today query will search for query from today sorted by rating. Currently content_type is not available, when it is supported in the API it will be added.

[Zero3K]

There's no date option when using sort: (using sort:date currently results in a 500 error). Also, I was hoping to see a box that is hidden by default and can be shown by clicking on a button or something that contains filtering options (like how Youtube does it).

[dimqua]

Yes, a more user-friendly advanced search would be nice to have.

[r-a-y]

Would it be possible to add the ability to filter videos by channel?

Let's say I'm on a channel page (/channel/X), the search box should be autopopulated with a channel filter such as channel:X.

Btw, great project! Invidious loads way faster than the official YouTube site on Firefox.

[omarroth]

Absolutely! Unfortunately (from my testing at least), when searching a channel other search filters won't work, so I'd like to have some way of indicating that to the user.

[omarroth]

type:TYPE has been implemented, so users can now filter e.g. channels with type:TYPE, and per-channel search has been added with #165. I'd recommend opening new issues for additional functionality, user-friendly search is now tracked in #179.