Searching ATS for YT-video ID - not possible?

Hi ATS

I recently did a search on a youtube-video-id. Nothing was found. After some fiddling with search words, i did find a post with the related video. It had the exact same youtube-video-id.

But it would have been alot more user-friendly, not to mention faster, if it could be possible to search for yt-video-ids. Would most likely also reduce the number of redundant posts?

Not sure if this will "overload" the search indexes in the DB, just a suggestion.

Also, if someone posts the wrong YT-link, adding the http... part, wouldn't it be possible to strip the http parts, extracting the yt-id. Its simple string manipulation imho. Just another suggestion.

Thanks for a great site

reply to post by kloejen


In order for the search engine to do that, it would have to be able to search for text within a hyperlink as the actual YT vid number does not appear in the text of the post.

That might be useful but I have no idea as to the difficulty or feasibility within the constraints of the search engine ATS uses nor what other issues may arise because of it..

Riffrafter
reply to post by kloejen

 

In order for the search engine to do that, it would have to be able to search for text within a hyperlink as the actual YT vid number does not appear in the text of the post.

That might be useful but I have no idea as to the difficulty or feasibility within the constraints of the search engine ATS uses nor what other issues may arise because of it..

edit on 4/13/2014 by Riffrafter because: (no reason given)

Not sure i understand you correctly, but how can you store the post without the YT link? The YT link is not within a hyperlink, but within the boards TAG's.

The TAG "YVID", and the YT-ID would be in the post-data, like below

[yTvid]YD-video-ID[/yTvid]

Yes the above TAG's are incorrect, in order to show you what i mean. If the YT-link wasn't stored in the post-data, you would lose the position of the video too.

reply to post by kloejen


You're right - I misspoke. I meant that the vid # is in the tag (not hyperlink) vs. being in the text of the post.

I think tags are treated like formatting and are therefore ignored by the search engine. Same goes for emoticons. I don't believe any of the text that goes between the colons is searchable i.e. lol, cheers, wow, uzi, etc.

Need a mod or ATS tech or admin to answer definitively. I'm surprised one hasn't already addressed your question...