I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters
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HN · launched Apr 6, 2026 · 325 upvotes (top 2%) · 0 views
Niche: multimedia and records search engines · 74 launches, 4 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Search & retrieval
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 74 launches in multimedia and records search engines →
Could you build this?
Yes It is a web frontend that accepts search parameters and constructs filtered search queries against the YouTube Data API v3 or standard YouTube search URL query parameters.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: FreeTube
Concerns raised: Security risk installing unverified extension with data access, YouTube search filters limited by lack of API support, Date field naming confusing ("Date after" vs "from"), Mobile version missing search functionality, YouTube deliberately broke search to discourage old video discovery
Feature requests: Sort by upload date (recently removed by YouTube), Restrict date fields to prevent future dates, Mobile version support, Last hour filter
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 191 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #5 of 192 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 159 days after the earliest competitor.
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