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It would be nice if we had a similar 'time' filter option like there is on the regular web search, but on the videos tab

Finding a video specifically published between two dates. Or just 'from the last week' 'last month' etc

    2 months later

    We only added day, week, and month filters. That's all we currently support.

      Is the plan to keep this issue open (because I still want date range search in the long term)

        4 days later

        Thibaultmol Right now, we can't offer custom date ranges because our providers don't support them yet. But as soon as they do, we'll make it available.

            6 months later

            I'm curious if there is an existing caching mechanism within Kagi that could be leveraged to "best effort" a solution that improves over time.

            Constrained metadata should be easily cacheable in storage and compute terms. Indexing isn't necessarily required. I have no idea what backend constraints exist, but multiple api-queries per search could be explored. It's a self-feeding capability that would grow and improve over time, and i'd image it's applicable across a vast array of api backends.

            This problem reminds me a lot of dns forwarder cache management. The latency requirements, data sizes, and hot-cache-equilibrium states seem very similar.

            One point of note that @Thibaultmol brought up, which i feel is worth calling out specifically: youtube video metadata is subject to change. this is a very important point, but funny enough may be irrelevant to his use case. I don't think that 'most' changes to youtube metadata are relevant to search-by-date related use cases.

            This leaves us with what could be a very constrained use case that could be served by a nothing-fancy key value store with some salt and pepper. I'd bet something well suited to this task is already part of the stack. Ok... that's starting to sound down-right feasible.

            There remain a lot of interesting legal, technical, fiscal, and user acceptance blockers orbiting this idea, but it might be worth exploring. One to comes to mind is whether or not a best-effort solution is good-enough to satisfy the ask. Are best effort results acceptable to the user? Does it align with Kagi's principals 🤷 I'm very curious.

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