YouTube advanced search form
Search tool
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.
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.
13 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 10
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 77%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 10 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 3.3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Fast, relevant results
“the results were good. Like 12 relevant results, 5 shorts in one row”
Comment from 6 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: YouTube search barely works, I made a search form with advanced filters” “It works well and is super fast.”
Comment from 7 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: YouTube search barely works, I made a search form with advanced filters” Works better than YouTube's search bar
“if i use this search form to generate the query (and not the youtube search bar) it works”
Comment from 6 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: YouTube search barely works, I made a search form with advanced filters” “Now this is a game changer for YouTube.”
Comment from 9 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: YouTube search barely works, I made a search form with advanced filters” Works as advertised
“Everything as advertised (IMO)”
Comment from 6 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: YouTube search barely works, I made a search form with advanced filters” “Really nice. Bookmarked it.”
Comment from 6 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: YouTube search barely works, I made a search form with advanced filters”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Only builds a regular YouTube query
“All this does it generate a search term from what you put in which you can do pretty easily yourself”
Comment from 6 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: YouTube search barely works, I made a search form with advanced filters” “It literally just parses it into a regular YouTube search”
Comment from 6 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: YouTube search barely works, I made a search form with advanced filters” “This is just adding the hidden filters such as”
Comment from 6 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: YouTube search barely works, I made a search form with advanced filters” Date before and after labels confusing
“'Date before' and 'Date after' field naming is confusing”
Comment from 7 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: YouTube search barely works, I made a search form with advanced filters”
What people said
11 of the 13 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Now this is a game changer for YouTube.”
“'Date before' and 'Date after' field naming is confusing”
“It works well and is super fast.”
“if i use this search form to generate the query (and not the youtube search bar) it works”
“It literally just parses it into a regular YouTube search”
“the results were good. Like 12 relevant results, 5 shorts in one row”
“All this does it generate a search term from what you put in which you can do pretty easily yourself”
“Really nice. Bookmarked it.”
“Everything as advertised (IMO)”
“This is just adding the hidden filters such as”
“I created a simple form with advanced search filters”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.