YouTube is
probably the second largest search engine after Google. It offers extremely
powerful search commands but there’s one important search functionality that
YouTube is yet to include in its mobile app for both Android & iPhone.
We cannot search
for videos within a specific YouTube channel while using YouTube on a mobile
phone or tablet. For instance, if you would like to search for Tesla videos
that were uploaded on the MKBHD channel, you simply can’t do that from your
mobile phone.
This search-within-channel
feature has been available for long on YouTube’s desktop website – see
screenshot – but none of the YouTube apps have it yet. This is surprising
considering the fact that more than half of video views on YouTube now come
from mobile devices.
That’s where
this mini YouTube search engine from labnol can help. Sign-in with your YouTube account,
enter a search query, select any YouTube channel that you are subscribed to and
it will show a list of all matching videos within the selected channel.
The app builds a
list of all channels that you are currently subscribed to and prepares a nice
drop-down with the channels sorted by name. The drop-down also features the
channel icons so it is easier for you to find the channel you are looking for.
Also, if you
have multiple YouTube accounts, you can click the “Logout” link to sign-out
from the current account and log in to any other account. The app requests
read-only access to your YouTube account and does not store any of your data
anywhere.
If you are a
desktop uses, you’ll probably never need this site but for mobile users,
mini YouTube search engine from labnol could be worth bookmarking until YouTube
incorporates this missing feature to their native apps.
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