How to Search for Videos

In this topic you will learn how to search for videos.

The Videos page provides a Search... field that can be used to search videos in an account.

Terminology

In this section, the term exact means that the search string is enclosed in quotation marks. For example:

Exact Search	Non-Exact Search
"ceo update"	ceo update

Note that "exact" means that all terms inside the quotation marks must be matched, but they may not match exactly. For example, a search on "running water" could return a video that has the phrase water runs downhill in the title or description.

Searching videos

To search the videos in your account, enter a search term in the Search... field.

To search for multiple video IDs, use the following syntax: id:xxx id:xxx id:xxx. For example, id:5985323381001 id:5715142164001.

The following video fields will be searched:

Video ID
Name
Short description
Long description
Tags
Custom fields
Variants

Query support for video fields differ. Some fields support partial-word searches and stemming searches, and some do not.

Search field	Supports	Does Not Support	Examples
Name and descriptions	exact matches for one or more whole words; stemming support	no partial-word support	`name:"great blue"` will match `"Great Blue Heron"` `name:"great blu"` will not match `"Great Blue Heron"` `name:great blu` will match `"Great Blue Heron"`
Video ID	exact matches only	no partial-word or stemming support	5591838791001 will match video with id 5591838791001 5591838791 will not match that video
Tags	matches only for whole words	no partial-word or stemming support	`tags:publ` will not match videos with tag `"public"`

What is stemming?

Video fields that support stemming return words that have the stem of the search word in common. In addition, stemming supports entering whole words only, not partial words:

Example 1: Searching on running will return results containing: running, run, runs
Example 2: Searching on vid will not return results containing: video

General rules

For an exact match, enclose strings in quotes
By default, searching assumes an OR logical operator between words
Search is case-insensitive

Examples

Search Term	Returns
`financial planning`	all videos that contain `financial` OR `planning`
`"financial planning"`	all videos that contain `financial` AND `planning`. Note that the quotation marks ensure that matching videos will have all the terms, but possible not the exact terms - for example, the search terms here might also return videos with `finance` and `plan` in the title or description
`walk`	all videos that contain walk, walks, or walking

Ignored words

Certain words are ignored in search strings because they are so common that they are likely to return many results unrelated to what you are actually searching for. Below is a list of words that are ignored by search.

a	an	and
are	as	at
be	but	by
for	if	in
into	is	it
no	not	of
on	or	such
that	the	their
then	there	these
they	this	to
was	will	with

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