YouTube Metadata Search

Small backend change: - Search API now takes the search query from a 'q' get parameter rather than from the uri. The old way of using the API still works for compatibility

Long awaited update mostly focused on tidying up the frontend. Frontend changes: - You can now share videos and searches using URLs! - Each search is defined by parameters in the URL: /search?q=awesome cats&date_to=2006-01-11&views_to=300 - You can now look up info for a specific video ID on /video?id={video_id} - Snapshot merging into a single result logic was rewritten and is mostly fixed - A lot of frontend was rewritten, with some actual thought put into the code this time - A new mysterios "I'm feeling lucky" button appeared... Try your luck and test it out! Search changes: - New search filters: - View count - Duration - Option to search text only in the title of videos - You can now filter by usernames that are shorter than 3 characters. You no longer need to select an user from the user search, just type the username Backend changes: - The time uncertainty for upload and fetch dates is now reported in seconds instead of a non-standard text value - Filtering by uploader no longer works based on specifying an uploader ID but rather using an username sorry for the long wait, wasn't able to work on the site that much. also thank you all for the support :D

A massive update to the database and backend, and a very quick and messy update to the frontend due to time constraints. Database changes: - 3 datasets added, about ~170mln records, with a lot of new data columns previously unavailable. More info on the about page. - API now returns multiple snapshots for a single video ID - Moved to better hardware, queries still might be slow due to the growth of the DB in size Frontend changes: - A single video result merges multiple snapshots together to show the most complete representation of data. Values that changed very often [views, ratings] are not merged together, instead the newest or the most complete snapshot is chosen for that data. - Searching by uploader - some other stuff the frontend was botched very quickly as I really wanted to have a working interface to the database before I leave for a vacation. expect a lot of bugs and other shortcomings