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NestedWeb
NestedWeb

Reputation: 1747

YouTube search operators in API call?

How can I use OR to search for the term in either title or tag or description? 

&q=%23%23"iraqi food" OR title:"israeli food" OR description:"iranian food"

// %23%23"iraqi food" = ##Tagname

This only brings results of iraqi food. I've also used some variants (just played around, as I counldn't find any examples.), but they didn't work either.

List of search operators

Upvotes: 0

Views: 678

Answers (1)

Linda Lawton - DaImTo
Linda Lawton - DaImTo

Reputation: 117331

Search: list Returns a collection of search results that match the query parameters specified in the API request. By default, a search result set identifies matching video, channel, and playlist resources, but you can also configure queries to only retrieve a specific type of resource.

q
string
The q parameter specifies the query term to search for.

Your request can also use the Boolean NOT (-) and OR (|) operators to exclude videos or to find videos that are associated with one of several search terms. For example, to search for videos matching either "boating" or "sailing", set the q parameter value to boating|sailing. Similarly, to search for videos matching either "boating" or "sailing" but not "fishing", set the q parameter value to boating|sailing -fishing. Note that the pipe character must be URL-escaped when it is sent in your API request. The URL-escaped value for the pipe character is %7C.

answer: You can not specific request title tag or description. It just searches for you. the best you can do is &q=iraqi|food which will give you results with either Iraqi or food

Upvotes: 1

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