Filter by text and date on channel page.

[zipline808]

I think it would be good if we could apply a text filter and/or a date filter to a channel.

For example: /channel/UCB_qr75-ydFVKSF9Dmo6izg?filter=team+radio
This would show only videos containing the filter words for that channel.

And: /channel/UCB_qr75-ydFVKSF9Dmo6izg?date-from=DDMMYY, or /channel/UCB_qr75-ydFVKSF9Dmo6izg?date-to=DDMMYY, or /channel/UCB_qr75-ydFVKSF9Dmo6izg?date-from=DDMMYY&date-to=DDMMYY
These would show videos that were published by the channel after a specific date, before a specific date, or between two specific dates respectively.

[Discookie]

You can use the search bar to do that, as in #126, although I've been having issues with it.

For example: when I type channel:UCB_qr75-ydFVKSF9Dmo6izg team radio, it shows no results, but when I type channel:formula1 team radio, it shows the results correctly.
Apparently the channel filter is broken for long channel names?

For dates, there's only the options:
https://github.com/omarroth/invidious/blob/1cfa1f65591cc02c96778b0783114cad2e202e36/src/invidious/search.cr#L123-L133

[zipline808]

Thankyou, I'd missed that. It is quite an unfriendly way of filtering but this much has been said in #126 so I'll just leave it at that.

Like you I've also noticed that channel:xyz has issues but I never thought much of it. Sometimes I will be on a channel page and the search bar has already been populated with channel:xyz but if I manually search with that filter it returns nothing.

I'll leave this issue open for now. Once @omarroth has become aware of the issue with the channel filter I'll close it. Thanks again.

[omarroth]

Should be fixed with 4480e9c.

Also see #179, I agree that search as it is now is user-hostile. I expect to add a form similar to what YouTube has (and the linked issue goes into more detail). I think documentation on how to use the search filters would also be something good to put in the About tab proposed in #227.