# YouTube

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The ***CTRL+F*** command on a PC and ***Command+F*** on a Macbook will allow you to easily find your filter in the chart.
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### Common filters to all social networks

<table><thead><tr><th>Operator</th><th width="249.33333333333331">Use</th><th>Example</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>keyword</strong></td><td>It allows you to focus on all the posts containing the keyword with or without a #.</td><td><strong>car</strong><br>It focuses on all the posts with the keyword 'car' or the hashtag 'car'.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>'the exact expression'</strong></td><td>Allows you to focus on all the posts containing the exact expression : all the words of this expression, in this exact order. </td><td><strong>'blue car'</strong> <br>It focuses on all the posts with the key-expression 'blue car' in it. <br>It doesn't search for the following content : <em>the blue auto and the yellow car</em>.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>#keyword</strong></td><td>Allows you to focus on all the posts containing a specific hashtag.</td><td><strong>#car</strong><br>It focuses on all the posts containing the hashtag #car.<br>It won't search for the posts containing the keyword 'car' without a #.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>lang:</strong></td><td>Allows you to only focus on posts in a specific language. <br>xx = language abbreviation<br><br>The main languages are : <br>- fr : french<br>- en : english<br>- es : spanish<br>- ja : japanese<br><br><a href="../../../filters-and-helpful-documents/list-of-languages">Check the 64 languages list</a></td><td><strong>lang:en</strong><br>It focuses on all the english speaking posts.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>contains:</strong></td><td>Allows you to focus on all the posts containing a sequence of characters. </td><td><strong>contains:lik</strong><br>It focuses on all the following posts : like, liked, likes...<br>But also unlike, unlikely, disliked, dislike...</td></tr><tr><td><strong>!contains:</strong></td><td>It allows you to focus on a sequence of letters considering the case letter.<br><br><em>WARNING: this filter is case &#x26; accent sensitive</em> </td><td><strong>!contains:Mel</strong><br>It focuses on all the posts containing the sequence of characters Mel but considering the case letter (only with a capital M)<br><br>This filter is very helpful if you want to focus on proper nouns. </td></tr><tr><td><strong>emoji:</strong></td><td>It allows you to focus on all the posts containing a specific emoji. </td><td><strong>emoji:joy</strong><br>It focuses on all the posts containing the "<em>joy</em>" emoji : 😂</td></tr><tr><td><strong>has_emoji :</strong> <br>(true/false)</td><td>It allows you to focus on the posts containing one or many emojis</td><td><strong>has_emoji:true</strong><br>It focuses on all the posts containing at least one emoji. </td></tr></tbody></table>

### YouTube specific content filters

<table><thead><tr><th>Filter</th><th width="250.33333333333331">Use</th><th>Example</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>title_contains:</strong></td><td>It helps to focus on YouTube videos whose title contains a sequence of characters. </td><td><strong>title_contains:</strong>impo<br>It filters on videos whose title contains the following words : impossible, important, importance...</td></tr><tr><td><strong>!tilte_contains:</strong></td><td>It allows to focus on YouTube videos whose title contains a sequence of characters.<br><br><em>WARNING: this filter is case &#x26; accent sensitive</em> </td><td><strong>!title_contains:</strong>Mac<br>It filters on all the videos whose title contains the following characters : Mac but taking the capital M. <br><br><em>It will only consider "MacDonald's" but it won't take "big mac" into consideration.</em> </td></tr><tr><td><strong>description_contains:</strong></td><td>It allows you to focus on YouTube videos whose description contains a sequence of characters. </td><td><strong>description_contains:</strong>"climate change" <br><br>Will focus on videos that have the expression "climate change" in it's description </td></tr><tr><td><strong>!description_contains:</strong></td><td>It allows you to focus on YouTube videos whose description contains a sequence of characters. <br><br><em>WARNING: this filter is case &#x26; accent sensitive</em> </td><td><strong>!description_contains:</strong>Law<br><br>Will focus on videos that have the word Law with a capital L in it's description</td></tr><tr><td><strong>video:</strong>ID </td><td>It allows you to focus on a specific YouTube video. </td><td><strong>video:IAfzFsPNkug</strong> <br>It focuses on a video whose ID has been mentioned. <br>The video ID is on the url, after the "v=" For the above example, the video url is : <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAfzFsPNkug">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAfzFsPNkug</a> and the ID is : IAfzFsPNkug <br></td></tr><tr><td><strong>title_word_count:</strong> <br>(>/&#x3C;/=)</td><td>It allows you to focus on all the YouTube videos whose title contains a specific amount of words.</td><td><strong>title_word_count:</strong>&#x3C;10<br>It focuses on all the videos whose title contains less than 10 words.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>description_word_count:</strong><br>(>/&#x3C;/=)</td><td>It allows you to focus on YouTube videos whose description contains a certain amount of words.</td><td><strong>description_word_count:&#x3C;50</strong><br>It focuses on the videos whose description contains less than 50 words.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>likes:</strong><br>(>/&#x3C;/=)</td><td>It allows you to focus on YouTube videos according to the number of likes that they've generated.</td><td><strong>likes:>1000</strong><br>It focuses on the videos that have generated more than 1000 likes.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>views:</strong><br>(>/&#x3C;/=)</td><td>It allows you to focus on YouTube videos according to the number of views that they've generated.</td><td><strong>views:>100000</strong><br>It focuses on YouTube videos that have generated more than 100 000 views. </td></tr><tr><td><strong>comments:</strong><br>(>/&#x3C;/=)</td><td>It focuses on YouTube videos according to the number of comments that they've generated.</td><td><strong>comments:>3000</strong><br>It focuses on YouTube videos that have generated more than 3000 comments.</td></tr><tr><td><strong>interactions:</strong><br>(>/&#x3C;/=)</td><td>Interactions combine likes + views + comments.<br>It allows you to focus on YouTube videos according to the number of interactions that they've generated.</td><td><strong>interactions:>5000</strong><br>It focuses on YouTube videos that they've generated more than 5000 interactions (likes + views + comments).</td></tr><tr><td><strong>sentiment:</strong><br>(neutral / positive / negative)</td><td>It allows you to focus on YouTube videos according to a specific sentiment that has been identified.</td><td><strong>sentiment:negative</strong><br>It focuses on YouTube videos that have been identified as negative. </td></tr><tr><td><strong>duration:</strong><br>(> / &#x3C; / =)</td><td>It allows to focus on videos according to their duration (in seconds). </td><td><strong>duration:</strong>&#x3C;60 <br>Focus on videos lasting less than 60 seconds.</td></tr></tbody></table>

### Channels' filters

| Filter                                                  | Use                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | Example                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
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| **from:**"user"                                         | <p>It allows you to focus on videos that have been posted by "user"'s YouTube channel.<br>WARNING : the case letter in the user name is important.</p>                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | <p><strong>from:HugoDécrypte</strong><br>It focuses on the videos that have been posted by HugoDécrypte's YouTube channel.</p>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
| **from\_contains:**                                     | <p>Isolates strings whose name contains a specific sequence of characters</p><p>Replaces channel\_name\_contains:</p>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         | <p><strong>from\_contains:android</strong></p><p>Isolates strings whose string name contains the term android</p><p>This filter is ideal for identifying sector-specific strings</p>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| **channel\_name\_contains:**                            | It allows you to focus on the activity of a YouTube channel whose name account contains a specific sequence of characters.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    | <p><strong>channel\_name\_contains:</strong>government<br>It allows you to isolate all the videos that have been posted by YouTube channels whose name contains the following sequence of characters: government.</p>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| <p><strong>channel\_views:</strong><br>(>/\</=)</p>     | It allows you to focus on YouTube channels according to the number of views that they've generated since their creation.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | <p><strong>channel\_views:>2000000</strong><br>It filter on the channels activity that count more 2 million of views since the channel's creation. </p>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| **profile\_contains:**                                  | <p>Allows you to combine different filtering options at once: <br>bio\_contains / channel\_name\_contains <br><br>Filter on the activity of original users that have a specific sequence of <br>of characters in users' biography; channel name, in order to identify communities.</p>                                                                                        | <p><strong>profile\_contains:</strong>daily<br><br>Will focus on channels that have the string of letters daily in their bio or name.  </p>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| !**profile\_contains:**                                 | <p>Allows you to combine different filtering options at once:  !bio\_contains / !channel\_name\_contains<br><br>Filter on the activity of original users that have a specific sequence of <br>of characters in original users' biography; display name or screen name, in order to identify communities.<br><br><em>WARNING: this filter is case & accent sensitive</em> </p> | <p><strong>!profile\_contains:</strong>Paris<br><br>Will focus on channels that have the string of letter Paris (with a capital P) in their bio or name.</p>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| **bio:**                                                | It allows you to filter on a keyword that a YouTube channel's description contains in order to identify specific communities.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | <p><strong>bio:</strong>journalist<br>It focuses on channels' activity whose description contains the word "journalist". <br>It won't search for the word "journalistic" for example.<br><br>It's very usefull if you want to idenfity YouTube channels that have a specific interest for something : <br><br><strong>bio:football</strong><br>It will list all the YouTube channels that have posted a video on the analyzed topic and that have mentioned "football" in their description. </p>                                                                                                     |
| **bio\_contains:**                                      | It allows you to filter on a sequence of characters that YouTube channels contain.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            | <p><strong>bio\_contains:blog</strong><br>It focuses on the activity of YouTube channels whose description contains the sequence of characters "blog". <br>It allows you to expand the research to : blog, [www.blog.com](http://www.blog.com), blogger ...<br><br>It's very usefull for identifying all the YouTube channels that have a specific interest for something : <br><br><strong>bio\_contains:sanofi</strong><br>It will list all the YouTube channels that have posted a video on the analyzed topic and that have mentioned Sanofi in their description.</p>                            |
| **!bio\_contains:**                                     | <p>It allows you to focus on a specific sequence of characters in YouTube channels' description in order to identify specific communities. <br><br><em>WARNING: this filter is case & accent sensitive</em> </p>                                                                                                                                                              | <p><strong>!bio\_contains:</strong>PSG <br>It focuses on the activity of YouTube channels that have mentionned the sequence of characters "PSG" in their description. But only if it's written in capital letters : PSG, PSGfans, PSGgroup, @PSG...<br><br>It's very useful for identifying YouTube channels that have a specific interest in something : <br><br><strong>!bio\_contains:</strong>Google<br>It will list all the YouTube channels that have posted a video on the analyzed topic and that have mentioned Google in their description (Google employees, Google trade unionist...)</p> |
| <p><strong>subscribers\_count:</strong><br>(>/\</=)</p> | It allows you to filter on YouTube channels according to their number of followers.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | <p><strong>subscribers\_count:>10000</strong><br>It focuses on the activity of the channels that have more than 10 000 followers. </p>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| <p><strong>videos\_count:</strong><br>(>/\</=)</p>      | It allows you to filter on YouTube channels according to the number of videos that these channels have posted since their creation.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | <p><strong>videos\_count:>20</strong><br>It focuses on the activity of channels that have posted at least 20 videos since their creation.</p>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| **country:**                                            | It allows you to focus on YouTube channels according to their country location.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               | <p><strong>country:fr</strong><br>It focuses on the activity of channels that are located in France. </p>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| **city:**                                               | It allows you to filter on YouTube channels according to a city.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              | <p><strong>city:</strong>Manchester<br>It focuses on the activity of channels that are located in Manchester.</p>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
