Thanks for the review.

I did not do extensive testing on very large search results like you seem to be doing, so I can not be sure on the stability of the tool when making databases of that size. In truth it was meant for more targeted results (The original purpose was to restore the ability to find most recent results after all). So if your database is collecting 10-100k+ results, yeah I would expected it to slow down, as I didn't plan for that or try to do anything to help it use databases of size more efficiently.

Something I could do to help databases of this size is to actually outright REMOVE the options its filtering out so they are not in the database at all. This would probably be the easiest solution to help very large databases being built be more efficient. It also does not help that it loads EVERY option of the database on the page at once, rather then in chunks or pages right now either. This is another reason 'unsafty' is off by default. I will give it some consideration.

I'm not sure I understand what the issues you are having with shorts are though. Since you seem to have manually set up your settings, I assume you have them set appropriately to get shorts, so I'm not really sure what you mean is happening with that. Best advice I can give is make sure you don't have the filter for shorts on and are using 'mixed' mode if you are wanting to get videos and shorts in the same search.

My best advice is to try and make your searches a little bit more targeted if you can to keep the experience a bit smoother. Either with more targeted search terms (with required or excluded terms) or smaller time sizes. Also I would be cautious doing HUGE searches like that for fear of flagging Youtube to suspicious activity. A few hundred or thousands of results at a time is likely fine, but lots of searches getting tens of thousand or more using these methods might be something that starts getting flagged somehow. More as a precaution.

Even with all the issues you have had though I am happy you are getting some use out of the tool. I will likely update and modify it a bit, but that update is likely at least a month or two away. Unless there is something outright crippling the tool happening.

1 star feels a bit harsh.

There was never a claim made that it fixes the results Youtube provides, the tool is to help filter and sort out the garbage. It still has to utilize the results YouTube gives you with your search.

To get better results out of the gate make sure you are using good search terms, like using quotations. But again, regardless of the search term; YouTube will still provide junk because that's what YouTube spits out. Harvesort is just collects all the results in a local database and is allowing you to filter based on the metadata avaliable. Its not actually checking the content for relevance of the results because that's not as easily done; mostly because YouTube does not readily provide this metadata.

It's still better then searching YouTube with their filters that actively inject shorts when you are searching videos, don't really sort in any given order that makes sense, or provides you a list of the same things over and over. Harvesort can find ALL the results of a search if you turn on 'unsafty' mode. You can find results of any given time period in YouTube's history. Good luck getting YouTube's base results to do that unless you know exactly what you are looking for.

I plan to at some point add a way to make sure what you are searching is actually related to the title of the video in some way. But that will introduce issues of its own still.

The tool may not be for you, but but it works for what it is, and 1 star is a choice related to your expectations. It sounds like your complaints are with what YouTube does natively already with your search results, not with filtering them.

Also, you don't specify what the 'simple function' you want is. Is it a replacement to 'sort by date'? If so then yeah, its overengineered for that. It kind of had to be because they outright removed the filter to do it. I will never claim this is a clean solution to that problem. But it does work to provide a solution.

You say it does not work properly. Where are you having issues?

The add-on has been replaced by a more developed tool Harvésort.

This new tool should be far more powerful for searches. Please update and give it a go. It should be able to do what you were using the old add-on for, and a lot more... for as long as it is allowed to work.

The add-on has been replaced by a more developed tool Harvésort. It is no longer using or reliant on the old url codes.

This new tool should be far more powerful for searches. Please update and give it a go. It should be able to do what you were using the old add-on for, and a lot more... for as long as it is allowed to work.