The Media Library Search feature takes advantage of a number of different aspects of the Video Platform’s technology, including Auto-captioning, Semantic Topic Analysis, slide content, titles, and descriptions. With the powerful Visual and Query Search, users can search through their Media Library by using any keywords from their media. To learn how to use additional search capabilities, please visit our guide on using the Advanced Search Console.
How to Search for Media
- Log into the Video Platform and click Manage Media at the top of the page to navigate to your Media Collection.
- Enter the desired search term in the Search bar located in the upper-left corner of the screen.
- Press Enter to start the search.
- Searches can also be in the form of a query, which takes your search criteria, and produces results based on it. The following are search queries that can be performed:
- Fuzzy search: Use a tilde (~) after a search criteria. For example, searching "engine~" will yield results containing "engine" or "engineer."
- Prefix search: Use an asterisk (*) after a search criteria. For example, searching "te*" will return results of words starting with te, like tell or test.
- Wildcard searches: Enter question marks (?) anywhere in your search criteria. The question mark is used to represent instances of alphanumeric characters. For example, searching "t??t" will return results with words that start and end with "t", like "test" and "text."
- You can also implement a query that can target specific fields, constructed like so: field: keyword, where a valid keyword is previously defined, and a field can be any of the following, shown below. Note: If you'd like to use these queries, we recommend using the Advanced Search Console.
- =multimediaType, where multimediaType: file targets all files while mutimediaType: video targets all videos.
- =title, description, tags, owner, or metadata respectively targeting the title, description, tags, owner, or metadata of any file or video. #keyword is syntax sugar for tags: keyword.
- =transcript or comment targeting the transcripts or in-video comments of videos, respectively.
- =ocr or tableOfContent respectively targeting the content displayed in the "Slides" or "Index" tab in video players.
- =caption-<Languages> targeting the caption of the specified language. If <Language> is not present, English is targeted.
- To only search for content in certain folders, use the folder field, like so: folder: "myCourseFolder"
- Likewise, to search for content in channels, use the channel field, like so: channel: "MATH 245"
- Search for a video by using the pid field, like so: pid:1234567 or pid:"1234567" for a more accurate search. A video's pid can be obtained following the numbers after "v=" within a direct link. For example, if the link is https://my.yuja.com/V/Video?v=1234567&list=123456789&autoplay=1, then the pid would be 1234567.
- To search for all content in a specific date range, use the format like so: before:2022-02-01 or after:2022-02-01. The date format should be YYYY-MM-DD.