Short (

The TYPE will enable you to search for videos (sure. Lol. ;-), channels, as we saw before.
Playlists.

DURATION: helps you find either short (20) minutes.
It’s good that it exists at all, but in many cases, you will certainly have to refine your search to find more.
Or reduce your search time.

FEATURES: Will provide you with finding a live video. Or 4k and HD. Also valuable if you for example remember:
That the specific video you were searching for had Subtitles or CC (I guess that was Closed Captions!)
When the video is licensed under creative commons it is normally freely usable.
But make sure it really is. It’s your responsibility.
360° is the video type that you can watch from any angle.

For instance, have a look at this rollercoaster ride:

Looks quite interesting, doesn’t it? Well, if you have seen a lot of rollercoaster videos or even are a roller coaster tester it’s highly unlikely that it makes you euphoric.
Sure. But did you pay attention to the symbol bottom left? 360! While playing use the mouse pointer (hand symbol) to drag.
Now you’ll see that you can watch it from any angle while it’s playing. Now that’s interesting, isn’t it? 🙂

VR180 goes in the same direction. If you search for those type of videos just click on VR180 to filter for those type of videos.
3D are the ones you can watch with 3d stereo glasses.
HDR is for a high dynamic range.
And the rest: Location is all about the place.
And purchase, the ones you’ve bought.

What I mostly tend to use is either:

Searching for long videos. Or by Relevance.
But if you need more complicated and specialized filters, hop on to the next paragraph.

Refine Your Youtube Search

This will be the stuff if you see filtering doesn’t get you any further.

Therefore this will be relevant to using the search entry field plus operators.

What are those operators?
Well, you may assume that there are is at least a subset of the filters used before.

Let’s dive into it:

One filter you might not see as such, because it could also have been added to the first part:

Just enter two words instead of one.
Why did I classify this as a filter as well?

Because it reduces the search results. To a smaller number again.

But to get one step further:

Combining Filters

Foreword: You may combine this having a look at the Google Operators Tutorial as well to see
which operators happen to work for you on YouTube as well.

Here’s a link to AHREF, with a really exhaustive explanation:

Ahrefs Google Operators Manual)

it all happens by adding a comma to your search term.
Let’s say you want to search for a Britney Spears Music Video.
And the important criteria is relevance and HD for you.

So your search term might be looking something like this:

“Britney Spears”, relevance, 4k

(Click on the link to see what happens)

Now you should get mostly relevant 4k videos that are tagged with a Britney Spears somewhere.
This means we combined filters of the GUI interface by using the text interface.

Because we used relevance AND 4k at once. This is not possible just using the GUI filter.
Got it? Well done. 🙂

As you can see I put “Britney Spears” in quotes. Why?
Because Only searching for the term without quotes will search for all combinations.
Like either Britney or Spears is found. But putting it in quotes searches for the exact term.
So we’re sure to only find Britney Spears related videos.

Since before we got also some results including channels it’s time to introduce the + and – operators.

+: use it to force youtube to include your search term. For example: Rihanna +cover +”Christina Aguilera.” Search for Rihanna’s Christina Aguilera covers. If they even exist. 😉
-: to exclude it. For example -channel would show everything you’re searching for, but no channels.

intitle: e.g.: intitle:”Live Recording”, will search for live recording, but only videos will be displayed where this is specified in the title.

*: this is a wildcard. Meaning: it will be replaced by anything, but only one word.

Advanced Youtube Searching

Still didn’t even find what you were searching for or want to create more out of this?
Then this is the place to be.

Maybe you want to even process those links further or give a user an example search
provided by your blog or use the result to process it further, maybe even to generate a result.

Therefore let’s have a look at what the URLs are looking like:

Doubling search operators

For example:

Let’s search for “wide belt” (including the quotes).
Look at the search result.
Now do it again, but this time you add the term twice, like this:

“wide belt” “wide belt”

This will narrow down your search and normally reveal a much more relevant search result.
Many people don’t know that.

URL structure

Let’s have a look at the URL structure. What does it look like?
Let’s look at an URL for this video:

https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=EgIQAQ%253D%253D&search_query=%22Are+Fashion+Belts+trendy+or+Trashy%22

What does it look like?

First, there is a header like: https or HTTP. Which is just the protocol. https is a secure protocol.
Then there is the URL itself (like the part that points to the domain:)

www.youtube.com

The rest (after the question mark “?”) are parameters.
Let’s break them down for this case:

sp=EgIQAQ%253D%253D
search_query=%22Are+Fashion+Belts+trendy+or+Trashy%22

The last one we can separate again, into:
%22
Are
Fashion
Belts
trendy
or
Trashy
%22

Every term in one line is a word or a character of the term before.
Since we put there

“Are Fashion Belts trendy or Trashy”

This is how youtube encodes the URL.
As humans, we would have to decipher it. But we can also create youtube URLs that way, for example:

Let’s imagine we want to change the last word, so we get this:

“Are Fashion Belts trendy or Vintage”

https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=EgIQAQ%253D%253D&search_query=%22Are+Fashion+Belts+trendy+or+Vintage%22

But what if you’d like to add a completely different search term?

Youtube URL Player Parameters

Click on the Video below. You’ll notice it starts at minute 1. Not at the very beginning.
Why? Because I’ve modified the URL like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=62&v=m0daIFQjLIc&start=60

You can do the same by adding an end parameter, like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=62&v=m0daIFQjLIc&start=60&end=90

So this would let you play the video from 60 seconds for 30 seconds more and then stop at 90 seconds in.
Thus, you can also share excerpts of videos with someone. Especially useful if it’s a quite long video though you want to relate only to a tiny part of it.

Due to this modification, the first minute will be skipped.

Now you know to add a parameter you have to add &” and the parameter itself.
“&” is the parameter separation. And “=” separates the parameter name from the parameter itself.

What else can we modify in term of parameters then?

Here is a list (the red parameters I could not successfully used them, they had no effect whatsoever):

loop=1	supposed to loop the video. But does either not work or not anymore.
rel=0	Should suppress the related videos, but seems also not to work anymore.
t=0m37s	Adding time codes. This will, for example, make the video start at 0 minutes and 37 seconds.

Additional Information About Youtube URLs

Still not enough food for your hungry mood? Ok, here’s a bonus. 🙂

Just use youtube repeater if you’d love to repeat your video URL or a part of it:

http://youtuberepeater.com/watch?v=OQzjf2dciUo&name=Hersheys+One+of+the+All+Time+Greats+commercial+1987
(This is a commercial that will be repeated over and over again using youtube repeater without end.
At the moment it seems directly entering youtube repeater does not work. But it still works just adding the watch parameter to the video.)

Youtube aka Google breaks it down for you in this support article:

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6180214?hl=en

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