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#changelog Added a toggle to disable autoplay on mouse-over
A few days ago I conducted a poll about autoplay on mouse-over for desktop users.
Based on the results of the poll I've implemented a toggle to disable autoplay on mouse-over.
The toggl...
2024-11-02 13:31:13 +0000 UTC View PostPoll for auto-play vs click preferences on desktop
Hi All, I've recently got some feedback complaining about auto-play on hover/mouse-over on desktop in the search results. I would like to have some data about actual user preferences to decide if i...
2024-10-23 08:50:27 +0000 UTC View Post#changelog Search multiple channels or exclude channels
Implemented an option to search over multiple channels in one query and also an option to exclude channels (i.e. search everything except the channels in the list).
You can also just paste a ...
2024-10-06 11:03:22 +0000 UTC View PostCrawling is expected to resume in a couple of days
I am currently testing the modified code, about 700k new videos from the test run will be loaded shortly.
2024-07-05 07:26:46 +0000 UTC View PostYouTube's new anti-crawling measures
YouTube has implemented new anti-crawling measures which hampers subtitle retrieval. Crawling is currently suspended as of June 8, 2024, and new data will not be loaded. Existing data is not affect...
2024-06-08 08:45:32 +0000 UTC View Post#changelog 16/9 thumbnails in grid layout
Given that most regular videos on YouTube are 16/9 I've decided to modify the grid layout to 16/9 for thumbnails and for the embedded video player.
Previously visible black horizontal bars on...
2023-11-11 10:46:48 +0000 UTC View Post#changelog exporting search results into a text file
A new export option was added for subtitle search results (grid layout) to export the results, in combination with timestamps, into a text file. For videos which have the "Creative Commons" license...
2023-11-06 18:57:24 +0000 UTC View Post#changelog added wildcard word matching to supplement NEAR
The NEAR operator added previously doesn't respect the order of the words, it only measures distances.
This is the intended functionality. However, based on the feedback received, some ...
2023-10-17 09:45:13 +0000 UTC View Post#changelog new NEAR operator - match multiple terms in close proximity
Support was added for the NEAR operator to find multiple terms which appear close to each other in the document or title. It works in the following way:
Stalingrad NEAR\5 chuikov NEAR\7 ar...
2023-10-16 09:01:41 +0000 UTC
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#changelog Grid Layout is now default, channel selector on front page
1. The grid layout for search results is now the default.
It's possible to switch between old layout and new layout using the button on the right, next to the channel text box on the search r...
2023-07-13 10:28:58 +0000 UTC View Post#changelog Sort By options added
Several sorting options for subtitle search were added.
The sort options are accessible in the "Filter" section - "Sort By".
Channel Rank is an experimental metric which gives each chan...
2023-05-01 14:33:44 +0000 UTC View Post#changelog Dark mode added
Dark mode has been added, you can enable it using the half filled circle in the navigation bar or in the settings screen. Feedback welcome.
2023-04-18 14:23:28 +0000 UTC View Post#changelog Using negative and OR search operators, channel word cloud search, remove the nag message
1. You can use negative search operator on the site (- symbol) or the OR search operator (| symbol). For example if you search for "go go go" -"go go go go" it should only find places with three go...
2023-03-23 10:35:45 +0000 UTC View Post#changelog Find censored words, more languages
1. You can now search for [ __ ] that YouTube uses to replace censored words in subtitles, to find censored locations. To find these search for the placeholder #FUCK#, for example
Call for support
I am a solo software developer working on the public search engine https://filmot.com/ which indexes video metadata and subtitles.<...
2023-01-20 10:17:03 +0000 UTC View Post