# YouTube advanced search form

10 Hacker News commenters recommended YouTube advanced search form and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as a search form with advanced filters that gives relevant, fast results. Critics say it only builds a regular YouTube search query from your input.

## Why people recommend it

- Fast, relevant results (2 comments): "the results were good. Like 12 relevant results, 5 shorts in one row" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47661232)) "It works well and is super fast." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47670765))
- Works better than YouTube's search bar (2 comments): "if i use this search form to generate the query (and not the youtube search bar) it works" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47661563)) "Now this is a game changer for YouTube." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47711383))
- Works as advertised (2 comments): "Everything as advertised (IMO)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655748)) "Really nice. Bookmarked it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47657579))

## What people warn about

- Only builds a regular YouTube query (3 comments): "All this does it generate a search term from what you put in which you can do pretty easily yourself" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47659244)) "It literally just parses it into a regular YouTube search" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47661388)) "This is just adding the hidden filters such as" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655651))
- Date before and after labels confusing (1 comments): "'Date before' and 'Date after' field naming is confusing" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47672323))

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "YouTube advanced search form", https://hackerapproved.com/p/youtube-search-form-with-advanced-filters/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).