Frequently asked questions

Subtitle search and metadata search work on different information and have different coverage.

• Subtitle search: searches the spoken text represented by a video's subtitles, captions or transcript. Captions are normally crawled according to view-count and other priority criteria, so small channels and low-view videos may be missing. Results can be sorted by relevance, date, views and other options, and exports can include full subtitles.
• Metadata search: searches titles and video details, with filters for channel, detected language, manual subtitle languages, upload dates, views and more. It has no minimum view count and can include videos without collected captions, unlisted or deleted records, and basic metadata for members-only videos. A Partial data icon marks records discovered without a full crawl.

Both support operators such as "exact phrase", |, -word and NEAR/N. In metadata search, the AutoSubs and ManualSubs columns identify the subtitle tracks Filmot has collected. The home page shows the approximate size of each index.

Use subtitle search for dialogue and spoken quotes; use metadata search for titles and other video details, including records without searchable captions.

Wrap the phrase in double quotes, for example "gravitational waves". Filmot then looks for those words as an exact, ordered phrase or quoted phrase, instead of matching each word separately. Without quotes, gravitational waves only requires both words to appear somewhere in the transcript. More examples: "general relativity", "polymerase chain reaction" and "standard model of particle physics". To accept alternatives, combine phrases with |, for example "dark matter" | "dark energy".

If the words only need to be close to each other, use a proximity search such as "vaccine efficacy"~5. Put a quoted phrase directly followed by ~ and a number: it finds the words in any order, with up to that many words in between.

Yes. A phrase can match across adjacent subtitle lines within the same indexed caption track. It does not have to fit inside a single subtitle line or caption segment, because Filmot indexes each track as continuous text rather than as isolated cues.

For example, if one caption ends with “a different” and the next begins with “point of view,” searching "a different point of view" can still find the phrase. The line break between captions does not require a special operator or a wildcard.

The words must still satisfy your query. Extra words, different spellings or transcription errors can prevent an exact quoted phrase from matching. If the wording is uncertain, try a shorter phrase or a proximity expression such as "different point view"~5, which allows a few words in between and ignores order.

This matching works within one caption track. It does not stitch together text from different videos or combine the wording of an English track with a separate translated track. Open the result and read or play the surrounding captions to confirm the complete sentence.

Search with the words, title fragments or dialogue you remember, but keep in mind that Filmot matches indexed text rather than the meaning of a phrase. Spelling and transcription differences can affect results.

These techniques help with approximate wording or inaccurate automatic subtitles:

• Exact phrase: use double quotes, such as "vaccine efficacy", when you know the wording.
• Nearby words: use "w1 w2"~N or w1 NEAR/N w2 when the words may be separated or occur in a different order.
• Alternative spellings or word forms: join variants with |, such as colour | color. Quote alternatives containing several words.
• Context: combine variants with nearby words to reduce false positives, for example (filmot | philmont | philmot | filmont) NEAR/15 (youtube | subtitles | captions | transcript | transcripts).

Examples for terms frequently transcribed in different ways include:

• "CRISPR cas9" | "CRISPR-Cas9" | "CRISPR Cas 9" | "crisper cas9" | "krisper cas 9"
• "mRNA" | "messenger RNA" | "messenger R.N.A."
• "CO2" | "carbon dioxide" | "CO 2"

To search title words, use Metadata search, or combine subtitle words with the Video Title field under Filters. The ? icon beside the search box opens the syntax guide.

Filmot's index is incomplete and contains existing caption text rather than audio. If a video has no collected transcript, or was never indexed, a remembered spoken quote cannot find it through subtitle search.

Filmot can help you look for an unknown song when you remember some of the lyrics and those words appear in indexed YouTube captions. It does not identify music from a recording, melody or humming, and there is no audio-upload or sound-matching search. Finding a song through Filmot is a text search for captioned lyrics, not acoustic fingerprinting.

Start with a distinctive line in double quotes, then try Search Automatic Subtitles and Search Manual Subtitles separately. If you are unsure of the exact wording, search a shorter fragment or join plausible alternatives with |. Music, background noise and singing can make automatic captions inaccurate, so the indexed text may differ from the lyrics you hear.

A lyric video that shows the words on screen may still have no searchable caption track, and a music video may have captions disabled or may simply not have been collected yet. If you know an artist, band or possible song title, try Metadata search as well.

Listen to each candidate to confirm the song. A result could be a cover, a reaction, a discussion or someone quoting the same line. An absence of matches does not prove that the song has never been uploaded to YouTube.

Yes. Open Metadata search, available under Metadata in the menu. Enter the title words or a quoted phrase, then combine them with filters such as channel, detected language, manual subtitle languages and upload dates. Title search supports the same operators as subtitle search, for example "radio telescope" or "stem cells" (therapy | treatment).

Metadata search does not require indexed subtitles, captions or transcripts and has no minimum view count. It can therefore find a known video even when its spoken content is not searchable.

Subtitle search matches caption text, so a phrase appearing only in a video's title will not match the main subtitle query. To require both title words and spoken words, use subtitle search with the Video Title field under Filters in the left sidebar. Both conditions must match the video.

Automatic and manual subtitles are searched separately. Filmot does not combine both types in one caption or transcript search. Manual tracks can contain translations, commentary or text that differs from the spoken audio, so combining them with automatic captions would make the results less consistent.

On the home page, choose Search Automatic Subtitles or Search Manual Subtitles. On a results page, use the Automatic Subtitles and Manual Subtitles buttons to switch search types.

Metadata search has separate AutoSubs and ManualSubs columns and can filter videos by their automatic or manual subtitle languages without matching caption text. Use it to inspect which tracks Filmot has collected.

Filmot's main menu provides access to these search tools:

• Home: subtitle search. Use Auto for automatic captions or Manual for manually created subtitles and transcripts.
• Metadata: search video titles and details with channel, language, date and other filters, including records without indexed captions.
• More → Channel Search: look up channels by their stored names; channel lookup boxes also accept @handles and IDs.
• More → Unlisted Video Search: browse and search known unlisted video records.
• More → Word Cloud Search: find channels where a word is characteristic.
• More → Transverso: compare how expressions are translated in matching manual subtitle tracks.
• More → Title Restorer: find the optional user script that displays stored historical titles and thumbnails in YouTube playlists.

When signed in, the profile menu also includes My Notes, Saved Searches, Daily Results, API Keys and Settings. Prioritized Channels is available with supporter benefits.

Filmot searches its own index rather than YouTube in real time. A video can be missing entirely, have only metadata, or have subtitles that do not match your search. A channel being listed does not mean every video or caption track has been collected.

Common reasons include:

• Discovery and indexing delays: new uploads generally take at least a day or two to appear, sometimes longer. A new channel may not be known yet.
• Selective subtitle coverage: subtitle indexing favors more popular videos, so a video with few views may have no indexed subtitles. Metadata search has no minimum view count, so a low-view video may still be listed there.
• Missing or inaccessible captions: Filmot uses subtitles that YouTube generates or hosts; it does not transcribe audio. YouTube may not provide captions, may have disabled them, or may not have generated them yet. Availability also varies by language and by when automatic captions became available. Members-only and age-restricted videos allow collection of basic metadata, but their subtitles cannot be fetched.
• Partial data: a half-star icon marks an incomplete video record, so its title, statistics or subtitles may be missing.
• Different subtitle tracks: automatic and manual subtitles are searched separately. Switch to Search Manual Subtitles if the video has manually uploaded captions. In manual search, setting Attempt Match to Video Language to No can reveal tracks excluded because the spoken language is uncertain.
• Different wording: automatic speech recognition may spell words incorrectly, and Filmot's stored transcript can differ from the current captions on YouTube. Try a shorter quoted phrase, alternatives with |, and fewer filters.
• Title-only wording: subtitle search matches caption text. If the phrase appears only in the title, use Metadata search.
• Deleted or unavailable videos: detected deletions are periodically purged from subtitle search. Stored metadata may still appear in metadata search or on the video's page. Hide and skip unavailable videos on Settings controls the display of unavailable results, but cannot restore purged subtitle matches.

To check a video, paste its ID into the title box in metadata search and inspect AutoSubs and ManualSubs. Each column lists collected subtitle languages; an empty column means no tracks of that type are indexed. Click a language flag to open the transcript. If available, you can also export full subtitles from metadata search within the normal row limits.

To check a channel, select it in metadata search or open its channel page. The home-page and subtitle-search channel lookup only lists channels with searchable subtitles; metadata search, unlisted search and Channel Search include known channels without them.

Patreon supporters can add channels on Prioritized Channels to improve coverage in both indexes regardless of view count. Captions must still exist and be accessible on YouTube.

A Query Syntax Error usually means a search operator is malformed. Check for:

• Unbalanced quotation marks or parentheses.
• NEAR/ or NOTNEAR/ without a distance number, up to 500.
• A quoted phrase followed by ~ without a number.
• A query containing only excluded words, such as -word, with no positive term.

You do not need to escape slashes in ordinary subtitle text. Before searching, Filmot replaces punctuation such as /, \, ?, !, $, &, @, :, =, commas and square or curly brackets with spaces.

When Filmot can identify the problem, the error message describes it. If a correctly formed query still fails, send the exact search expression through the contact form or the Discord server linked there.

Use the channel lookup box on the home page, subtitle search or metadata search. Type the channel's name, @handle or UC channel ID, then select the matching suggestion so it becomes a green channel tag. Selecting the suggestion ensures that you search the intended channel; unselected text can automatically resolve to several matching channels.

With the channel selected:

• Enter a spoken word or quote in subtitle search to match its automatic or manual captions.
• Use the title box in Metadata search to match video titles.
• Use subtitle search's Video Title field under Filters to require both title words and matching subtitle text.

You can also start directly on the channel's Filmot page. The search box below the channel card has Auto for automatic subtitles, Manual for manually created captions and a title button for video titles. Each search is restricted to that channel.

Additional filters combine with the channel and query. Remove an active filter with the x on its tag when you want to broaden the results.

Use the channel lookup box on the home page, subtitle search, metadata search or unlisted video search.

• Type a channel name, @handle or UC channel ID and click the matching suggestion to create a green channel tag. Repeat to add more channels.
• To add several at once, paste a comma-delimited list such as @LinusTechTips,@JerryRigEverything,@Dave2D,@GamersNexus. You can mix handles and channel IDs and select up to 200 channels per search.
• If you enter text without selecting a suggestion, Filmot automatically looks it up and uses up to the top six matching channels. Select the suggestion when you need exactly one channel.
• Where an Include/Exclude switch is available, Include restricts the search to the selected channels; Exclude removes those channels from the results.

To reuse a channel list, bookmark the subtitle or metadata search URL. The selected channels are retained in the address, so you can reopen it and change the query or other filters. Signed-in users can also click the bell button to save a named search with its query, channels, filters and description.

The lookup on the home page and subtitle search only includes channels with subtitles available for search. Metadata and unlisted search include all known channels, even when no captions or transcripts have been indexed.

Yes, you can look a video up, search or find it by its ID or link instead of keywords:

• On metadata search, paste one or more video IDs or YouTube video links into the title box, separated by spaces or commas. Filmot lists the matching videos it knows.
• In the search box, enter just the 11-character video ID. If Filmot has the video, you go straight to its video page. Use the ID only, not the full link.
• You can also open a video's page directly at /video/ followed by the video ID.

The video page shows the video's metadata, or video details, and any available subtitles, captions or transcripts.

Filmot's search looks across many videos, but you can open a single video's subtitles, captions or transcripts and search them with your browser's find function (for example Ctrl+F).

To open a video's subtitles:

• Enter the video's 11-character ID (not the full URL) in the search box. If Filmot has the video, you go to its video page.
• Or open /video/ followed by the video ID.
• Or click the language flag next to a video on metadata search or on a channel page.

The page that opens lists all captions for that video, if Filmot has them.

Alternatively, filter a regular subtitle search by channel and title so that only one video matches.

Yes. In subtitle search, use the Video Title field under Filters to combine title words with spoken subtitle, caption or transcript words. A matching video must satisfy both conditions. For title search without a subtitle query, use Metadata search, which also supports channel, language, date and other filters.

Subtitle and metadata searches have separate result sets. Each search removes duplicate video results within its own set, but Filmot does not deduplicate across two separate searches. A video that matches both can therefore appear in both result lists or in alerts from two saved searches.

If you need one list without that overlap, use a single subtitle search with a title filter when both conditions are required. Separate saved searches can still notify you about the same video.

No. Filmot does not index or store YouTube playlist membership, so it cannot restrict subtitle searches to a playlist or reconstruct the playlists of a deleted channel.

You can instead restrict searches to one or more channels. Select the channels by name, @handle or UC channel ID in subtitle or metadata search. You can also paste a comma-delimited list of handles or channel IDs.

Filmot stores no video or audio files, and channel records cannot be used to recover footage.

Filmot cannot limit search results or matches to your YouTube watch history.

For your subscribed channels, you can build the list yourself and search only inside it:

• In the channel lookup box on the home page, subtitle search or metadata search, type a channel name and click a suggestion. You can also paste a comma-delimited list of handles or UC channel IDs, for example @LinusTechTips,@JerryRigEverything,@Dave2D,@GamersNexus. Handles and channel IDs can be mixed in one list.
• Use up to 200 selected channels per search.
• If an Include/Exclude switch is shown, choose Include to search only inside the selected channels.

To reuse the list, bookmark the search page. Signed-in users can also save a search with its selected channels; see Saved Searches.

Subtitle and metadata search have a Filters panel in the left sidebar. On smaller screens, phones and tablets, it is hidden by default. Tap Filters at the top of subtitle results, or beside Search in metadata search, to open it. Use Close to dismiss the panel.

Set your options and click Update. Available controls include:

• Views and Likes: minimum and maximum sliders.
• Video Duration: a minimum and maximum length slider.
• Upload date: from/to fields, with More shortcuts for Today, This Week, This Month or This Year.
• Subtitle search: lists of matching channels, categories, languages and countries. Select an entry to filter by it; use the trash badge to exclude a category.
• Metadata search: license, livestream/regular-video status, listed/unlisted status and complete/partial data selectors.

Metadata search also has Text in title, Channel with Include/Exclude, Auto Lang with Match Manual, Manual Subs with Exact Match, and Country fields. Filters combine, so a video must satisfy all active conditions. Selecting several Manual Subs languages requires all those languages, rather than any one of them.

Active filters appear as tags above the results:

• Click a tag's x to remove that filter and reload the search.
• In subtitle search, Clear Filters removes additional filters together.
• The search-text tag cannot be removed; edit the query instead.
• Some tags reflect a setting or search mode, such as Hide Unavailable Videos or Attempt Match to Video Language in manual search.

Filters are retained in the URL, so you can bookmark a filtered search. In metadata search, Show Trends opens a chart; zooming it and choosing Filter By Chart Dates applies that period as the upload date range.

Dates are not set with operators typed into the search box. The search syntax help lists no date operators. Use the date fields in the Filters section of the left sidebar instead. They are on both subtitle search and metadata search.

1. Enter the upload "from" and "to" dates. Alternatively, open the More menu and pick Today, This Week, This Month or This Year to set the range quickly.
2. Click Update.

The range applies to each video's upload date. Dates are chosen in the sidebar fields rather than typed as search operators.

Filmot has no dedicated filter that removes or leaves out YouTube Shorts, because not all videos in the index have a reliable indicator of whether they are a Short.

As an approximation, Metadata search has a video duration filter, so you can restrict results or matches by video length. Because it only looks at length, it is not a precise Shorts filter.

Filmot provides a duration range filter rather than a box for entering an exact runtime. Use the Duration slider in the filters on subtitle search or Metadata search to set a minimum and maximum video length.

You can also sort by duration in either direction: use Sort By in subtitle search or the arrows in metadata search's Duration column. Combine a length range with channel, upload date or other filters to keep the result set manageable. Search totals are estimates, especially for broad queries.

Yes. On Metadata search:

1. In the Filters section of the left sidebar, set the upload date range with the "from" and "to" date fields. You can also narrow the Views range with the Views slider.
2. Click Update.
3. Sort the results or matches by views with the arrows in the Views column header. The down arrow sorts from the most-viewed videos down.

The view counts shown were captured when Filmot crawled, collected or fetched each video, not live from YouTube. They can be lower than the current counts on YouTube, especially for recently posted videos.

Filmot keeps a search's filters in its URL. Set the filters you want and bookmark the results page. Reopening the bookmark restores those selections, and you can change the search term while reusing the filters. Because the URL contains your search terms, filters and selected channels, anyone you share a bookmarked link with can see them, so check a link before sharing it.

To keep a named query, sign in and click the bell button on subtitle or metadata search. A saved search retains its query, filters and selected channels, together with a name and optional description. Manage it on Saved Searches.

You can also enable a daily email digest to receive newly found matches automatically. Saved searches require an account, while bookmarking a filtered URL does not.

No. Filmot does not have a reliable indicator of whether a YouTube upload was used as an advertisement. There is no dedicated filter for showing only ad videos or excluding them from search results.

Filmot supports keyword, Boolean, phrase and proximity operators in subtitle search and title expressions. Click the ? icon beside the search box to open the Search Syntax Cheat Sheet.

• Spaces: require all terms, though they need not be adjacent. Example: CRISPR gene editing. Do not type AND; it is treated as an ordinary search word.
• OR, written as |: match alternatives, such as "dark matter" | "dark energy".
• Double quotes: match an exact ordered phrase, such as "gravitational waves".
• Parentheses: group conditions, such as "stem cells" (therapy | treatment) or (CRISPR | "gene editing") ("sickle cell" | "cystic fibrosis").
• "w1 w2"~N: match words near each other in any order, such as "vaccine efficacy"~5.
• NEAR/N: match nearby terms, phrases or groups, such as "black hole" NEAR/10 "event horizon".
• NOTNEAR/N: match the first term without the second nearby, such as radiation NOTNEAR/100 microwave. The maximum distance is 500.
• * inside a quoted phrase: stand for exactly one word, such as "basic * spectroscopy".
• -word: exclude every video containing that word, such as quantum -computing. A query containing only excluded terms is invalid.
• Caption placeholders: search #FUCK# for censored words, or sound labels such as #Laughter#, #Music# and #Applause#.

The same operators work in the Video Title field under subtitle-search filters and in the title box on Metadata search.

Put a minus sign immediately before a word, such as quantum -computing. Filmot then excludes every video whose searchable transcript contains "computing", even if the word appears only once in an unrelated passage. You can exclude several terms or combine them with a phrase, for example neuroscience -psychology -self-help or "nuclear fusion" -fission.

A query needs at least one positive search term; a query consisting only of excluded words is invalid.

To exclude words in video titles, use the Video Title field under Filters in subtitle search, or the title box in Metadata search. Those fields support the same operators.

If you want to avoid a term near a match rather than reject the whole transcript, use NOTNEAR/N, with a distance up to 500. Examples include radiation NOTNEAR/100 microwave and "nuclear energy" NOTNEAR/60 weapons. The Search Syntax Cheat Sheet provides more examples.

Filmot supports proximity searches and a one-word wildcard inside quoted phrases. Open the Search Syntax Cheat Sheet with the ? icon next to the search box for more examples.

• "w1 w2"~N: finds the words in any order, with up to N words between them. Put ~ and the number directly after the closing quote, for example "vaccine efficacy"~5 or "tumor suppressor"~3.
• w1 NEAR/N w2: finds two terms within N words of each other, in any order, with a distance up to 500. It also accepts quoted phrases and grouped alternatives, for example "black hole" NEAR/10 "event horizon" or ("dopamine" | "serotonin") NEAR/10 ("receptor" | "pathway").
• "w1 * w2": inside a quoted phrase, * stands for exactly one word. "observed * decay" can match "observed radioactive decay" or "observed beta decay". Use additional asterisks for a longer gap, or combine alternatives: "basic * spectroscopy" | "basic * * spectroscopy".

To exclude a nearby term instead, use w1 NOTNEAR/N w2. For example, radiation NOTNEAR/100 microwave finds occurrences of "radiation" without "microwave" within that distance.

Use parentheses to group alternatives and combine them with other conditions. Terms separated by spaces are all required, while | accepts at least one alternative.

Examples:

• "stem cells" (therapy | treatment | transplant): match the phrase together with any of those clinical terms.
• (CRISPR | "gene editing") ("sickle cell" | "cystic fibrosis"): match a gene-editing term and one of the disease expressions.
• ("deep learning" | "neural network") (protein | genomics) -tutorial: combine AI and biology terms while excluding videos containing "tutorial".

Groups also work with proximity searches, such as ("dopamine" | "serotonin") NEAR/10 ("receptor" | "pathway"). Title fields accept the same syntax.

List the word forms you want with the OR operator |. For example, run | running | runner matches any of those forms. This also helps with spelling variants and automatic-caption transcription differences, such as "mRNA" | "messenger RNA" | "messenger R.N.A." or "CO2" | "carbon dioxide" | "CO 2".

The documented search syntax does not provide a word-ending wildcard such as run*. Its * wildcard works inside a quoted phrase and stands for exactly one word. For example, "observed * decay" matches a word between "observed" and "decay". Use more asterisks for longer gaps, or combine alternatives: "basic * spectroscopy" | "basic * * spectroscopy" | "basic * * * spectroscopy".

Open the ? help icon beside the search box for the complete operator list and examples.

Filmot does not provide unrestricted regular-expression or regex search across its full subtitle database. Use the supported search operators and metadata filters to narrow the results instead.

You can match exact phrases in double quotes, list alternatives with |, exclude terms with -word, group conditions with parentheses, use * for one word inside a quoted phrase, and search nearby terms with proximity or NEAR operators. Channel, upload date and other filters can further restrict the matching videos.

For example, "CRISPR cas9" | "CRISPR-Cas9" | "CRISPR Cas 9" searches several spelling or transcription variants. The ? icon beside the search box opens the syntax guide with additional examples.

YouTube's automatic captions sometimes replace a censored word with [ __ ]. Filmot indexes that position using the marker #FUCK#. Search for #FUCK# to find those positions; it does not reveal the original words.

For example, #FUCK# NEAR/5 #Laughter# looks for a censored marker near a laughter caption. The search marker is the same across subtitle languages, but the words censored and the available caption versions can differ.

Yes. Filmot indexes descriptive caption labels using placeholders such as #Laughter#, #Music# and #Applause#. Search them like ordinary terms, alone or combined with other words. For example, "#FUCK# #Laughter#"~10 finds censored positions near laughter.

Sound labels depend on the subtitle language, and YouTube's wording can change over time. Italian tracks may use #Risate#, #Musica# and #Applauso#. The censored-word placeholder #FUCK# is the exception: Filmot uses the same marker in every language.

It depends on the page:

• Subtitle search: open the "Languages" section in the left sidebar and click a language. Each entry shows how many videos match.
• Metadata search: use the "Auto Lang" dropdown to filter by the automatically detected language. You can also pick one or more languages in "Manual Subs" to find videos with manually added subtitles, captions or transcripts in those languages.

Filmot supports non-Latin scripts. For Japanese, Chinese, Thai and other text indexed without spaces between words, put the word or expression in double quotation marks.

These scripts are indexed character by character. Without quotes, each character becomes a separate search term, so a video can match when the characters appear anywhere in its transcript, in a different order or far apart. With quotes, Filmot requires the exact sequence of characters.

For example, search "日本語" rather than 日本語, or "ภาษาไทย" rather than ภาษาไทย. To accept several expressions, quote each one and join them with OR: "東京" | "大阪".

Some channels only provide manually uploaded subtitles. If automatic subtitle search returns no results, try Search Manual Subtitles and inspect the video's AutoSubs and ManualSubs columns in Metadata search. In manual search, setting Attempt Match to Video Language to No can reveal tracks excluded because Filmot cannot determine which language matches the audio.

In manual subtitle search, Attempt Match to Video Language tries to keep subtitle tracks that match the language spoken in the video. A video may have several manually uploaded tracks, including translations, and Filmot cannot always tell which one represents the audio.

The filter assumes a match when:

• There is one manual subtitle track and no automatic captions.
• A manual track has the same language as the video's automatic subtitles.

Ambiguous cases, such as several manual languages with no automatic captions, can be excluded. This can hide a video even when its manual transcript contains your search term.

To include those tracks, click the Attempt Match to Video Language: Yes tag above the results and switch it to No. Also confirm that you are running Search Manual Subtitles rather than automatic subtitle search, since the two indexes are searched separately.

The Auto Lang filter in Metadata search represents the automatic-caption languages available in Filmot's index. Manually uploaded Chinese or Mandarin subtitles belong to Manual Subs, so they do not appear as automatic-caption tracks simply because they contain Chinese text.

If Chinese or Mandarin is not offered in Auto Lang, use Manual Subs to find videos with collected manual subtitles in that language. Check the AutoSubs and ManualSubs columns to see which track types Filmot has for a video, and use manual subtitle search to search their text.

Filmot displays captions collected from YouTube or uploaded there by creators; it does not generate transcripts itself.

Leave the language filters empty to search without a subtitle-language restriction.

In Metadata search, selecting several Manual Subs languages requires a video to have subtitles in all of them. The selections are combined with AND, rather than matching any one of the chosen languages. Selecting every language would therefore return very few videos, rather than search all languages freely.

If you want results for several specific languages independently, run a separate search for each one.

The Exact Match checkbox beside Manual Subs restricts the set of indexed manual subtitle languages. It is separate from searching for an exact quoted phrase or exact wording.

In Metadata search, selecting English and German normally finds videos that have manual captions in both languages, including videos that also carry other manual subtitle languages. With Exact Match turned on, the indexed manual subtitle language set must consist only of the languages you selected, so a video with English, German and French manual subtitles would be excluded. Its tooltip states that it keeps only the selected languages.

This setting concerns the subtitle tracks Filmot has collected, not a guarantee that YouTube currently offers no additional tracks. It does not require the video to be spoken in both languages, compare translation quality or match identical wording. Use the Auto Lang filter when you want to narrow results by automatically detected spoken language, and quote words in a text field when you want an exact phrase match.

Filmot does not provide a reliable filter for European versus Brazilian Portuguese. Automatic caption tracks generally use the language code pt for Portuguese. Some manually uploaded tracks use regional codes such as pt-PT or pt-BR, but many are also labeled pt.

As an approximation, filter by the channel's country. In Metadata search, combine Portuguese in Auto Lang with Country, such as Portugal or Brazil. Subtitle search also has a Countries list in the sidebar.

A channel's country is self-reported and may be blank. Country filtering therefore misses some relevant videos and does not establish the dialect spoken in every result.

Filmot does not currently offer a filter or sort for subtitle difficulty, vocabulary difficulty or a language-learning level. You cannot select videos by an easy-to-hard score or learner category.

Metadata search can narrow videos by detected language, manual subtitle languages, upload dates and other video details. Those filters identify available languages and metadata; they do not measure how easy the captions are to understand.

Both subtitle search and metadata search support sorting, but their controls and default rankings differ.

Default order: subtitle search combines text relevance with video views and channel subscriber count, so popular videos from larger channels tend to rank higher. Metadata search uses title relevance when you enter text. With filters alone and no title query, metadata results follow the order records were added to the index unless you select another sort.

Subtitle search: open Sort By in the left sidebar and choose:

• Date New-Old / Date Old-New: upload date, newest or oldest first.
• Index New-Old / Index Old-New: when the video was added to Filmot's subtitle index, most recent or earliest first.
• Views High-Low / Views Low-High: recorded view count.
• Likes High-Low / Likes Low-High: recorded like count.
• Channel Rank High-Low / Low-High: Filmot's channel score.
• Duration Long-Short / Duration Short-Long: video length.
• Channel Variety: a mix of channels where possible, using each channel's best text match to reduce domination by one channel. It has no ascending or descending direction.
• BM25 Match: text relevance without the view-count or subscriber boost, best match first. It also has no direction option.

Metadata search: use the arrows in the table headings for Uploaded, Duration, Views, Likes, Dislikes where available, and Last fetch. The down arrow sorts high to low, or newest first for dates; the up arrow reverses the order. AutoSubs and ManualSubs cannot be sorted.

Counts are stored snapshots rather than live YouTube statistics. Last fetch indicates when Filmot last encountered information about the video, not necessarily when its statistics or subtitles were updated.

Index order applies to the results of a search, rather than a separate listing of every video. The date-range fields under Filters always refer to upload date, even when results are sorted by index date.

Filmot has no sort based on the exact number of times a term appears in a video, and no sort by transcript word count.

The closest option is BM25 Match under Sort By in the subtitle-search sidebar. This relevance score considers term frequency, how rare a term is across the index and document length, with an additional boost when query words occur close together. A video where your term appears frequently may rank higher, but the ordering is not an exact occurrence count.

Other available sorts include recorded views, likes, upload date, duration, channel rank, index date and channel variety.

Metadata search includes a Show Trends chart for matching videos. After running a search, open the chart to see weekly totals for videos, channels and recorded views, grouped by video upload date.

These are trends in the videos matching your query, rather than the number of searches people make, as measured by Google Trends. The view figures are stored counts, not live YouTube statistics.

To focus on a period, zoom the chart and click Filter By Chart Dates. Filmot reruns the search using that upload date range.

Filmot's search totals are approximate. The displayed numbers of matching videos, channels and other result summaries are estimates, rather than exact counts. They can differ from the number of records you can page through or export.

Filmot limits how far you can page through search results for performance reasons. There is no control for jumping directly to a specified page.

Use filters such as channel or upload-date range to narrow a large search. Exports are subject to per-file limits: up to 60 subtitle-search rows or 100 metadata-search rows without patron benefits, and up to 10,000 rows with patron benefits, reduced to 2,500 when full subtitles are included.

The results on a numbered page can change as Filmot's index is updated.

Filmot does not offer an alphabetical sort by video ID. Subtitle search supports upload date, index date, views, likes, channel rank, duration, channel variety and BM25 relevance. Metadata search supports upload date, duration, views, likes, dislikes and Last fetch.

To order records by ID, export the results with the video ID column selected and sort the downloaded file in a spreadsheet or script. Available formats include CSV, Compact CSV, JSONL and ZIP.

The usual export limits apply: up to 60 subtitle-search rows or 100 metadata-search rows without patron benefits; up to 10,000 rows with patron benefits, reduced to 2,500 when full subtitles are included.

Filmot collects video descriptions, but their text is not indexed for search. Subtitle and metadata searches do not match words that appear only in a description.

Accounts with patron benefits can include stored descriptions in search-result exports, subject to the export limits. Depending on various factors the urls in the collected descriptions might be truncated.

No. Filmot does not collect or index YouTube comments, so their text cannot be searched on the site. Filmot searches video subtitles, captions and transcripts, together with titles and other video or channel metadata.

Filmot collects and stores original video titles. It does not keep translated versions of titles, so title searches use the original text recorded for each video.

Transverso searches for a word or expression in one subtitle language and shows corresponding lines in a second language from the same videos. It helps you see how a phrase is translated in real caption context.

1. Enter your word or expression, using double quotes for an exact phrase.
2. Choose the Search Language, or Detect Language, and the Target Language.
3. Run the search. Results show both language versions, a button to play the video at the matching moment and a link to its side-by-side subtitles page.

Transverso uses selected manual subtitles aligned between language pairs. It does not use automatic captions and does not cover the entire subtitle index, so some videos found by regular search will not appear. Less common language pairs may have fewer examples.

Use subtitle search for broader coverage, or a video's side-by-side page to compare two available subtitle tracks directly.

Search for a word, idiom or expression to hear it used in real YouTube videos. This can help with pronunciation, listening comprehension, conversational vocabulary and understanding how a phrase actually sounds in context.

1. Enter the word, or put a multiword expression in double quotes, such as "ça marche".
2. Search automatic or manual subtitles and select your target language in the results sidebar. Automatic captions are often useful for locating spoken examples; a manual subtitle track may be a translation rather than the language you hear.
3. Play a result at its matching timestamp. On Settings, the Delay Video Start option can begin playback a few seconds before the match so you catch the surrounding sentence.
4. Compare examples from several videos or channels. Replay the passage and repeat it aloud if you are practising pronunciation or shadowing.

Country and channel filters can help you look for regional usage, but a channel's country does not guarantee the speaker's accent, dialect or native language. Listen to the audio and check the context: captions can mishear or mis-transcribe words, and a frequently occurring expression is not necessarily appropriate for every situation. Filmot surfaces real spoken examples; it does not score or assess your pronunciation automatically.

In subtitle search, hovering over a thumbnail can load a YouTube iframe and start playback at the first matching caption. Moving the pointer away before playback begins cancels the preview. Hover autoplay is currently enabled by default.

To disable it, use the Autoplay switch on the subtitle results page, or open Settings, set Autoplay videos on mouse-over to No and save. You can still click a thumbnail to play the video.

Loading a YouTube iframe may allow YouTube to receive technical information about your browser and visit under its own privacy practices. Disabling hover autoplay prevents automatic video previews. On metadata search, unlisted search, channel pages and My Notes, clicking a thumbnail opens a floating window with the player inside the iframe.

Saved-search digests normally run daily, but delivery is not guaranteed at a fixed time. Newly matching records may also be delayed until they appear in Filmot's index.

If an expected message has not arrived:

1. Open Saved Searches in the account that owns the search. Confirm that Send daily email digest is enabled and your active searches are within the account allowance.
2. Check the recipient address. A custom address must be verified before it can receive digests; also check your spam folder.
3. Review the last-run and email status. Daily Results can help distinguish a search that has not run from an email-delivery problem.
4. Use Run or Run All Active to test the search, and Send Combined Email to test delivery. If problems continue, contact support with the visible error or status, but do not send verification links or unnecessary personal information.

Alerts cover newly discovered matches, which may include videos uploaded earlier. A day without an email may simply mean no new results matched.

Filmot indexes publicly accessible information about YouTube videos; it does not provide access to private video or audio files or maintain private, account-only indexes.

Coverage depends on the video's status and what Filmot previously collected:

• Private videos: Filmot cannot access or collect metadata for private videos. Metadata collected while a video was publicly accessible may remain in its historical index.
• Unlisted videos: Filmot has incomplete coverage. Unlisted Video Search shows known records, but channel prioritization cannot guarantee discovery of every unlisted video. To be discovered the unlisted video needs to have been public at a previous time or the id should have been linked or listed somewhere (playlist, other site or forum, etc). There is no general way to discover unlisted videos.
• Deleted videos: previously collected metadata may remain, although detected deletions are periodically removed from subtitle search. Filmot cannot retrieve details it never collected and are no longer on YouTube.
• Members-only and age-restricted videos: basic metadata may appear in Metadata search, but subtitles for such videos cannot be collected for search.

Historical records may differ from a video's current status on YouTube and do not establish permission to redistribute content. Hide and skip unavailable videos in Settings changes which results are displayed.

Filmot cannot restore, download or provide the video or audio files of a deleted video or terminated channel. It may retain metadata and subtitles collected while videos were accessible, but those records are not copies of the footage.

You can search for a reupload by title in metadata search or by a distinctive quote in subtitle search. The IA links on video listings also let you check the Internet Archive for independently archived material. When an archived copy is available, Try Playing from Archive.org may offer playback; a working copy is not guaranteed.

Filmot cannot collect missing details from an inaccessible video. Archived or historical information may be outdated if present.

Yes, if Filmot already holds a record for that video. Filmot does not retrieve missing historical metadata from YouTube on demand. A stored title, channel or upload date can remain after a video is removed from YouTube or becomes private, but it may be outdated or incomplete.

To check a video ID:

• Open /video/ followed by the ID.
• Paste one or more IDs into the title box in Metadata search, separated by spaces or commas.
• Use the getvideos endpoint of the public API with an API key.

An ID alone cannot reconstruct information Filmot never collected.

Filmot Title Restorer is an optional browser userscript that displays historical titles and thumbnails for supported video IDs inside YouTube playlists. It uses metadata previously collected by Filmot.

Open Title Restorer under More and follow the Script Page link. Installation requires a userscript manager such as Tampermonkey; review the extension's permissions before installing it.

The script works only for records Filmot already knows. It does not recover video or audio, reconstruct playlists or create missing metadata. To request review of sensitive or outdated stored information, use the contact form.

Filmot may display two controls associated with the Internet Archive:

• IA link: opens the video's Internet Archive or Wayback Machine record from a video listing or page.
• Try Playing from Archive.org: on a video's subtitles page, attempts playback of an independently archived copy if one is available. If no playable archived copy is available, the page may fall back to a YouTube iframe, where the player controls are provided by YouTube.

Only some videos have archive records, and a Wayback Machine page does not necessarily contain playable media. The link and the playback button check for different kinds of availability, so their results may differ.

Filmot does not host the archived video. An archived copy does not itself grant permission to reuse or redistribute the content.

Filmot may retain metadata collected while a video was publicly accessible even if the video is later deleted or made private. Availability changes can take time to appear in Filmot, so historical records do not necessarily reflect the video's current YouTube status.

Videos detected as deleted are periodically removed from subtitle search, but some previously collected details may remain on video or metadata pages. Removing a result from subtitle search is not the same as deleting the underlying stored record.

You can change the display of videos that appear unavailable:

• Subtitle search: in Settings, set Hide and skip unavailable videos to Yes, No or Unavailable Only.
• Metadata search and channel pages: use Filter videos to choose Available or Unavailable. The Metadata videos filter setting controls the initial selection.

Availability detection is not definitive, and some filters affect only the currently displayed page. These settings change what you see; they do not delete records or recover videos.

To request review or removal of stored information, use the contact form. A request can address Filmot's public pages and future API responses or exports, but Filmot cannot recall files already downloaded by third parties.

No. Filmot's coverage of unlisted videos is incomplete. Videos that were never publicly shared may not be known to Filmot, and prioritizing a channel does not guarantee discovery of all its unlisted uploads.

An unlisted video is not necessarily intended for unrestricted distribution. Filmot's recorded availability may also differ from the video's current status on YouTube.

Use Unlisted Video Search to browse known records. To request review or removal of a record, use the contact form.

Filmot cannot retrieve member-only video footage or subtitles. Basic details may appear in Metadata search, but subtitles for restricted videos are not available for new collection.

If a video later becomes publicly accessible, its captions may still be missing from Filmot until the record is updated. To check, search for the video by ID, title or channel and inspect the AutoSubs and ManualSubs columns. A later update is not guaranteed, and there is no individual-video reindexing request feature.

Age-restricted videos have similar limitations on subtitle collection.

Filmot cannot collect or index the subtitles, captions or transcripts of age-restricted YouTube videos. Their spoken content is therefore unavailable in subtitle search, although basic metadata may appear in Metadata search.

To inspect a record, paste the video ID into the metadata title box and check AutoSubs and ManualSubs. An empty column means no subtitle tracks of that type are indexed.

Age restriction is determined by YouTube. It is one of several reasons captions can be missing, alongside members-only access, discovery delays, low view counts and captions that YouTube has not made available.

The video page displays a YouTube iframe beside the subtitle tracks Filmot has collected, with the player controls inside the iframe. Open it from a search result, a subtitle-language link, the Info link in Transverso, or /video/ followed by the video ID.

Depending on available data, you can:

• Follow the highlighted caption line during playback or click a line to play from that timestamp.
• Compare two subtitle languages side by side.
• Download the selected subtitles as an SRT file.
• Browse Similar videos, when suggestions are available.
• View historical community-subtitle credits using Show Contributors, when available.
• Report an inaccurate or unsuitable caption track with Report.
• Use Try Playing from Archive.org if an independently archived copy is available.

Yes. A video's side-by-side subtitles page displays two caption tracks next to each other with the video. Choose a language for each column from the tracks Filmot has collected for that video.

The current subtitle line is highlighted during playback, and clicking a line starts the video at that timestamp. In Metadata search, click a subtitle-language flag to open this view.

Only available tracks can be selected; Filmot does not generate a missing translation. On Settings, Language Indicator controls whether subtitle languages are displayed as flags, short codes or full names.

A sign-in or anti-bot prompt displayed by the player in a YouTube iframe comes from YouTube, not Filmot's own verification system. YouTube determines whether a video requires sign-in or additional verification.

Try signing in to YouTube in the same browser, or open the video directly on YouTube and complete its normal verification process. On mobile, opening the video in a regular browser may help if playback in the iframe fails.

Filmot cannot override YouTube's playback or verification requirements.

Yes. On the Settings page, set "Delay Video Start" to 3, 5, 10, 15 or 20 seconds and click Save Settings. Videos then start that many seconds before the matched moment, so you hear more of the context. The default is 0 seconds.

Yes. On subtitle search results, metadata search, unlisted video search, channel pages and My Notes, videos can be viewed through a YouTube iframe in a floating window.

• Drag the window to move it, and use the resize handle to change its size.
• The position and size are remembered for each page in your browser.
• On small screens, phones and in portrait orientation, the window containing the player appears across the top of the page.

Hover autoplay applies only to subtitle search results: holding the pointer over a thumbnail can start the video. On other pages, click a thumbnail to open the floating window. To disable hover autoplay, set Autoplay videos on mouse-over to No in Settings, or use the Autoplay switch on the subtitle search results page.

Yes. In metadata search, unlisted video search and channel listings, a video's title opens its Filmot video page, including the side-by-side subtitle view when tracks are available. The title link works the same way for available and unavailable videos.

A separate arrow link opens the video on YouTube. The IA link opens its Internet Archive or Wayback Machine record; an archived copy is available only for some videos.

Sometimes. When Filmot has stored publicly available credits for a video's community subtitle track, its subtitles page may show a Show Contributors button and the number of credited contributors.

Credits are historical and may not reflect a contributor's current profile. If your name or contributor information appears and you would like it reviewed or removed, use the contact form.

Use the channel lookup box on the home page, subtitle search or Metadata search. Enter the channel's name, @handle or full UC channel ID, select the matching suggestion and open the resulting green channel tag's tooltip. It contains links to the channel's Filmot page and YouTube channel.

To add several channels at once, paste a comma-delimited list of handles or IDs. You can mix them, for example @DIYPerks,UCWFKCr40YwOZQx8FHU_ZqqQ. You can also open a known channel directly at /channel/ followed by its UC channel ID.

If a channel recently changed its YouTube name, Filmot may still have the old name. Non-standard Unicode characters in a name can also make lookup difficult. Try its @handle or full UC ID; the ID is the most reliable option because it does not depend on the display name.

The home-page and subtitle-search lookup only includes channels with searchable captions. Metadata and Unlisted Video Search include known channels without indexed subtitles, so try those pages if the channel is missing from subtitle lookup.

A channel page shows the information Filmot has stored for one YouTube channel, derived from publicly available video and channel data. Open /channel/ followed by its UC channel ID, use the link in a green channel tag, or find it through Channel Search.

The page includes:

• A channel card with its stored subscriber and video counts, plus a historical subscriber chart when enough observations exist.
• A search box with Auto for automatic captions, Manual for manual subtitles and a title-search button, all restricted to that channel.
• A word cloud of characteristic terms. Click a word to find related channels or search the channel's captions for it.
• A video list with 100 records per page and a Next Page button. Rows include available subtitle-language links, a half-star Partial data indicator when applicable, and links to YouTube and the Internet Archive.
• Metadata/Sort, which opens the channel's videos in metadata search ordered by upload date, views or duration, and Filter videos for available or unavailable records.

The information is incomplete and approximate: the list reflects only the videos Filmot has discovered, and the counts, chart and word cloud are indicative snapshots rather than current YouTube statistics or a complete profile of the creator.

Channel pages show 100 videos at a time. A Next Page button appears whenever the current page is full because Filmot cannot determine in advance whether another page contains records.

If the channel's indexed videos end exactly at a page boundary, the next page is empty. This means there are no more records in that listing, rather than a missing batch of videos.

Channel pages also have a maximum paging limit. Beyond it, the Next Page button is no longer shown.

The basic Channel Search page does not provide country, join-date or subscriber filters, or a subscriber-count sort. Results show the stored subscriber count and the channel's country when one is supplied, but join date is not shown in that results list.

Country information is self-reported by the channel owner, and many channels leave it blank. To filter video results by a channel's country, use the Country field in Metadata search.

Video sorting is separate from channel lookup. Subtitle search can sort videos by Channel Rank, but that score is not the same as subscriber count. The API's advanced channel-search endpoint has its own documented filters; those do not imply equivalent controls on the basic website page.

The subscriber chart on a channel page is based on historical subscriber counts stored by Filmot. It is an approximate history, not a complete or continuously updated record.

The number and spacing of observations vary by channel, so some charts are detailed while others are sparse. A chart appears only when sufficient data is available. Treat the figures as recorded observations rather than official real-time YouTube statistics.

Channel rank is Filmot's own ranking of channels based on available channel information. It is not an official YouTube ranking or a direct measure of subscriber count alone.

To sort subtitle-search results by this score, open Sort By and choose Channel Rank High-Low or Channel Rank Low-High. The score and its calculation may evolve as the index changes.

A channel's word cloud shows the words that are characteristic of that channel, not simply its most frequent words. The most common words, such as "the", "to", "and" or "you", are frequent on every channel, so they would say little about a particular channel's content.

Filmot builds it by comparing the vocabulary of the channel's recent subtitles with the overall subtitle collection in the same language. A word appears when it is noticeably more common on the channel than in general, and a larger word reflects both how often the channel uses it and how distinctive it is for that channel.

Because the word cloud is based on the channel's most recent subtitles, there is no option to limit it to an earlier or custom time period or date range. Treat it as an approximate impression of the channel's vocabulary rather than a complete or exact analysis.

Yes. A channel's word cloud highlights terms that are characteristic of its automatic subtitles or captions. Click a word to open a menu with two options:

• Other channels for the word: find channels where the same term is characteristic.
• Search this channel for the word: run a subtitle search restricted to that channel.

You can also open Word Cloud Search under More and enter a word directly. Characteristic words reflect a channel's vocabulary compared with the wider corpus, rather than simply its most frequent terms.

Filmot may have historical view, like and dislike counts collected on different dates. Combining those values can produce a misleading like-to-dislike ratio, so some historical figures are shown only on the individual video page rather than in metadata search results.

A video or channel page displays a dislike count only when Filmot has a stored value for that video. A missing count does not mean the video had no dislikes; it means a figure is not available in the displayed record.

Filmot displays elapsed time using complete units, rounded down. For an age expressed in years, a video that is almost 12 years old is shown as 11 years ago; it changes to 12 years ago after 12 full years have passed.

The same approach applies to shorter units, such as months, weeks, days and hours. Use the displayed upload date when you need the precise date rather than a relative age label.

No. Filmot provides video metadata, subtitle text and links to YouTube, but does not download or distribute video or audio files.

Subtitle search can export links to matching moments. Open the export dialog, select the subtitle-timestamps export option and choose Export embed urls to create YouTube links with start and end times around each match. You can adjust the seconds included before and after the matching caption.

You can also export video IDs and other result columns in CSV, Compact CSV, JSONL or ZIP format. Any use or redistribution of the linked content remains subject to applicable rights and terms.

You can mark videos as reviewed by adding private notes, then filter results by whether they have a note. Sign in to use your account’s notes and the associated filters.

On search results pages, click the funnel icon above the results to open Filter videos. In the Notes section, choose Without note to see videos you have not annotated, With note to see those with notes, or All to clear the note filter. The separate Videos section offers All, Available and Unavailable options based on thumbnail availability. This filter is available on metadata search, the subtitle search grid, unlisted search and channel pages.

After reviewing a video, you can add a note such as “Reviewed,” optionally with a timestamp or color. Avoid recording sensitive personal details or conclusions about identifiable people. Without note then shows videos you have not marked. Watching a video does not automatically mark it as reviewed.

Use My Notes to find your annotated videos again and search within the note text. A note attached to a video is private to your account in the normal Filmot interface, not a public comment, and not a separate note per search query.

Filmot continues to discover and index publicly accessible YouTube videos. Data is added in ongoing batches, generally roughly every day, rather than in real time or on a guaranteed schedule. A new upload usually takes at least one to two days to appear and can take longer, especially if it is less popular or has not yet been discovered. This delay applies to title and metadata search as well as subtitle search.

Channels are checked for new videos at varying intervals, and there is no fixed schedule. YouTube can also delay making captions available for hours or up to a day after upload, particularly for livestreams.

Patreon supporters can add channels on Prioritized Channels. Once active, a prioritized channel is typically processed within about a day or two, although timing varies and very large channels need approval first. Priority indexing picks up new uploads faster and improves coverage in both metadata and subtitle search, regardless of view count.

Filmot covers only part of YouTube. Subtitle coverage is selective and favors more popular videos; low-view videos may never enter subtitle search without channel priority. Metadata search has no minimum view count, but each video must still be discovered. The home page shows the current totals for both indexes. Use Metadata search to check a channel's videos and its AutoSubs and ManualSubs columns to see which captions have been collected.

Filmot indexes individual YouTube videos, so a channel can be listed while some of its videos are missing or have no searchable subtitles. Coverage is substantial but incomplete: Filmot cannot collect and index the captions of every video on YouTube.

Subtitle search and metadata search have different indexing criteria:

• Subtitle search: coverage is selective and favors more popular videos, and the priorities can change over time. Videos with few views may therefore have no indexed subtitles, captions or transcripts.
• Metadata search: there is no minimum view count. Filmot collects the video details it can discover, including records without subtitles. A half-star Partial data icon marks videos that were found but never fully crawled.

Patreon supporters can add channels on Prioritized Channels. Their videos are indexed regardless of view count, improving coverage in both indexes. The available slots depend on tier: Official Patron 1, Silver Patron 4 and VIP Patron 15. Captions must still be available and accessible on YouTube; priority indexing does not generate transcripts or provide access to restricted content.

To inspect a channel's coverage, select it in Metadata search. The AutoSubs and ManualSubs columns show which subtitle languages Filmot has collected for each video.

You can look up one video or check a list of YouTube video IDs against Filmot's stored index.

• One video: open /video/ followed by its 11-character video ID. Entering that ID alone in Filmot's main search box also opens the video page when Filmot knows it. Use the ID rather than the full URL for this shortcut.
• One or several videos in metadata search: paste video IDs or YouTube links into the title box on Metadata search, separated by spaces or commas. Filmot lists the matching records it has.
• A channel: open /channel/ followed by its UC channel ID to view its known videos.

In metadata results, AutoSubs and ManualSubs show the languages of collected subtitle tracks. Click a language flag to open the captions or transcript. An empty column means no subtitles of that type are indexed. A half-star Partial data icon means the video was discovered but never fully crawled. If no record is returned, Filmot has no matching video in its index.

To check a long list, export the matching metadata and compare its video IDs with your original list. IDs fit into URL length limits more efficiently than full links. Metadata exports contain up to 100 rows without patron benefits or 10,000 with them, reduced to 2,500 if full subtitles are included, so large lists may need several batches.

To search within one video's transcript, open its video page or click a subtitle-language link, then use your browser's Find function, such as Ctrl+F on a computer or Find in page on a phone or tablet. You can also narrow subtitle search by channel and title until only that video matches. On mobile, entering the video ID works the same way; YouTube's own transcript view may also be accessible through your browser's desktop mode.

Captions can be absent because they do not exist on YouTube, are inaccessible, or were never crawled.

Select the channel in Metadata search, or find it through Channel Search and open its Filmot channel page. These listings show the videos Filmot has discovered; they do not guarantee complete coverage of every upload.

In metadata results, AutoSubs and ManualSubs list the subtitle languages collected for each video. An empty column means no captions of that type are indexed. A half-star Partial data icon identifies an incomplete video record.

On a channel page, Metadata/Sort opens that channel's videos in metadata search ordered by upload date, view count or duration. You can also sort the metadata table by Last fetch in either direction. This indicates when Filmot last encountered information about the video; it does not necessarily mean that its statistics or subtitles were updated then, or that this was its first indexing date.

If the channel is missing from subtitle lookup, try metadata search instead. The home-page and subtitle-search lookup only includes channels with searchable captions; metadata and unlisted search include known channels without them.

Patreon supporters can submit a channel on Prioritized Channels for better coverage. If it is already in the priority list, the page says so and does not add it again; otherwise it is placed in the priority queue.

A half-star Partial data icon indicates that Filmot has an incomplete record of a video. Some records contain a video ID, channel ID, upload date or view count but lack a title, other statistics or subtitles.

You can see the icon on channel pages and in metadata search results. Metadata search includes incomplete records it has discovered, even if no subtitles are available; subtitle search is more selective. Videos not discovered by Filmot will not appear at all.

Patreon supporters can add channels on Prioritized Channels to improve coverage, but prioritization cannot make inaccessible videos or missing captions available.

No. Filmot does not provide a submission form for playlist links, individual video IDs or missing video details, and it is not set up to ingest user-supplied records for indexing. Its API also has no endpoint for requesting a video recrawl.

Patreon supporters can add whole channels on Prioritized Channels, using a name, @handle or UC channel ID. Priority indexing improves coverage regardless of view count; it is a channel-level feature rather than a way to submit individual videos.

Filmot's discovery of unlisted videos is incomplete, and it cannot guarantee that any particular unlisted video will be found.

Filmot displays stored statistics, not live YouTube counts. Views, likes and subscriber information reflect the data available when a record was collected or updated, and may differ from current YouTube values. Continuous refresh is not guaranteed.

Metadata search displays recorded view and like counts and supports sorting by them. Last fetch indicates when Filmot last encountered information about a video; it does not necessarily mean that every displayed metric was updated then.

Channel pages may display a historical subscriber chart when enough observations exist. Treat all these figures as recorded snapshots rather than real-time measurements.

The Last fetch column in Metadata search indicates when Filmot last encountered information about a video. You can sort the column in either direction.

This is not necessarily the video's first indexing date or the time its full metadata, statistics or subtitles were updated. Filmot does not provide a complete per-video collection history or exact timestamps for every field.

In subtitle search, Index New-Old and Index Old-New sort results by when a video was added to the subtitle index. Those options are separate from Last fetch.

No. Filmot searches existing subtitles, captions and transcripts supplied through YouTube, including those uploaded by creators. It does not generate captions from audio or perform speech-to-text transcription.

A video without an indexed subtitle track may still appear in Metadata search by title, channel or other details. Patreon supporters can prioritize channels for broader coverage, but prioritization cannot create captions that do not exist.

No. Filmot does not use OCR to read text from video frames. It cannot search words displayed on slides, signs, screenshots or screen recordings unless those words also appear in indexed text. Likewise, captions permanently embedded in a video image are not searchable by themselves.

Subtitle search uses the caption tracks Filmot collects: YouTube's automatic subtitles and separate manually uploaded captions. Burned-in subtitles, also called hardcoded or open captions, are part of the image rather than a distinct subtitle track, so their wording can be found only if it also appears in an indexed caption or transcript. A visible title or on-screen phrase may instead be searchable through Metadata search when it also appears in the video's stored title.

If you have a screenshot or remember text that was shown on screen, try the words spoken at that moment, the video's title or the channel name. A screenshot or image cannot be submitted to Filmot as a visual or reverse-image search. Finding a caption match can help locate a candidate video, but you still need to open and play it to confirm the visual content.

Filmot indexes caption tracks provided through YouTube. Automatic captions can contain transcription or language-detection errors, while manually supplied tracks may contain translations or text that differs from the speech.

To report a subtitle-quality problem, open the video's subtitles page and use Report. Select the relevant issue, provide the video URL and an approximate timestamp if possible, and include a short description. A captcha check may be required. Avoid sending unnecessary personal information.

For privacy or copyright complaints, use the contact form rather than a subtitle-quality report. Those requests are reviewed separately.

When searching for frequently misheard words, combine spelling alternatives with |, for example "birthing" | "berthing". For other site problems, contact support or use the Discord link on that page.

Filmot stores snapshots of subtitles collected when a video was accessible. The stored text may differ from the captions currently available on YouTube; Filmot does not generate its own transcripts.

Captions added or regenerated later may not yet appear in Filmot. Conversely, previously collected text may remain even if YouTube subsequently changes or disables the caption track.

Patreon channel prioritization can improve coverage of newly accessible captions but cannot generate them.

Restrictions on access to a video or its captions can prevent Filmot from collecting new subtitles or transcripts. Age-restricted and members-only videos may still appear with basic metadata but without searchable captions.

Availability can change. A transcript collected while a video was accessible may remain in Filmot's historical index even if the current YouTube page no longer offers it.

YouTube's regional restrictions can prevent Filmot's crawler from accessing a video. When access is blocked by a geographic restriction, Filmot may be unable to collect its data or subtitles, so the video can be missing from search results.

These access restrictions are imposed by YouTube. A video being playable in your region does not necessarily mean it was accessible to Filmot when the crawler tried to fetch it.

Yes. Filmot indexes YouTube livestreams and live broadcasts with accessible captions, using the same general criteria as regular uploaded videos.

Subtitle crawling is normally prioritized by view count, so a stream with few views may not have its subtitles, captions or transcript indexed. Metadata search has no minimum view count and may still list the stream by title or channel even when no captions are searchable.

Captions must exist on YouTube. YouTube can make a livestream's subtitles available several hours, or up to a day, after the stream, and Filmot's own crawling is not instantaneous. New videos generally take at least a day or two to be discovered and processed.

Patreon supporters can add the channel on Prioritized Channels to improve indexing speed and coverage in both subtitle and metadata search, regardless of view count.

Filmot began collecting YouTube information around September 2018. That is a collection start date, not an upload-date cutoff: older videos may be indexed if they were accessible when Filmot encountered them.

Coverage is incomplete. Filmot generally cannot supply details for a video that became unavailable before it first collected those details. Subtitle indexing is selective; metadata search has no minimum view count but can only show records Filmot has discovered.

Use Channel Search to inspect known videos from a channel. A video's Filmot page shows available stored metadata and subtitles, but Filmot does not store a video or audio copy.

Filmot can index information only while it is accessible to the service. If a deleted, private or terminated-channel video became unavailable before Filmot collected its details, Filmot cannot reconstruct its missing title, subtitles or other metadata from its ID alone.

Filmot does not accept user-submitted historical records for addition to the index. To check an existing record, select the channel in Metadata search; a half-star Partial data icon indicates an incomplete record.

The IA links in video listings let you check for independently archived copies on the Internet Archive. Filmot does not store the video or audio files. For videos still publicly accessible, Patreon supporters can use Prioritized Channels to improve indexing coverage.

No. Filmot does not accept uploaded, crowdsourced or otherwise user-submitted subtitles, captions or transcripts. It indexes caption data collected from publicly accessible YouTube videos.

This also applies to transcripts from members-only or other non-public videos. Filmot cannot fetch their captions, and supplying a transcript yourself does not add it to the index. Basic metadata for members-only and age-restricted videos may still appear in Metadata search.

Filmot stores searchable text information about YouTube videos and channels, including video IDs, titles, upload dates, statistics and available subtitles or transcripts. It does not host, stream or cache the underlying video or audio files.

Thumbnails are normally loaded from YouTube. Where available, Filmot may display images from the Internet Archive; it does not maintain its own thumbnail archive. Video playback on Filmot is displayed through a YouTube iframe, which contains the player controls provided by YouTube. When available, Try Playing from Archive.org offers playback from an independently archived copy instead.

Filmot cannot recover footage from its database or grant rights to reuse a video's content. For permission to reuse content, contact the relevant rights holder.

Filmot indexes YouTube only. It searches YouTube video subtitles, captions and transcripts, together with titles, channels and other video metadata. Podcasts and content hosted on other platforms, such as Spotify, are not included.

Filmot independently indexes publicly accessible YouTube video and channel information, including metadata and available subtitles, captions and transcripts. It does not use the official YouTube Data API to collect this information.

Coverage depends on what is accessible when Filmot collects the information; the index is not a live copy of YouTube.

The Filmot home page displays approximate totals for its subtitle and metadata indexes. These totals differ because metadata search includes many videos without searchable captions, while subtitle search covers videos with indexed subtitle text.

Filmot stores text metadata and available captions or transcripts, not video or audio files. Coverage is incomplete: subtitle indexing is selective, while metadata search has no minimum view count and includes records Filmot discovers.

Filmot independently collects public YouTube video metadata and available subtitles, captions or transcripts, builds a full-text index from that information and searches the stored index.

Subtitle and metadata searches are keyword-based; Filmot does not offer AI-based semantic or contextual search. To refine matches, use spaces to require all terms, | for alternatives, -word to exclude a term, parentheses for groups and double quotes for an exact phrase. Proximity searches with ~N, NEAR/N or NOTNEAR/N can match nearby words, and * inside a quoted phrase stands for one word.

Combine those expressions with filters such as channel, language, upload date or video duration. The ? icon beside the search box opens the Search Syntax Cheat Sheet with examples. Details of Filmot's underlying software and infrastructure are not published.

Filmot does not provide a public discovery-source history for individual videos or channels.

Yes. Open the video's side-by-side subtitles page, choose an available language and click Download SRT beside the language selector. Filmot produces an .srt file containing the collected caption lines with start and end times.

For multiple matching videos, subtitle and metadata search exports can include full subtitles as a selected column in CSV, Compact CSV, JSONL or ZIP, subject to export limits.

Downloaded subtitles remain subject to applicable copyright and other rights. Filmot does not grant permission to redistribute them.

Run a subtitle or metadata search and click Export. Choose CSV, Compact CSV, JSONL or ZIP, then select the columns you want, such as video ID, title, channel ID, channel name, upload date or view count. Stored descriptions are included only with patron benefits, and full subtitles can be selected where available.

To list a channel's known videos without matching title words, select the channel in metadata search, leave the title query empty and export the results. To export only videos whose captions contain particular words, use subtitle search with the channel selected.

Exports contain IDs rather than ready-made links:

• For a video URL, append its video ID to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=.
• For a channel URL, append its channel ID to https://www.youtube.com/channel/.

To produce a channel list, select the channel ID and name columns and deselect other columns if you do not need them. An export has one row per matching video, so the same channel can appear repeatedly; remove duplicate channel IDs in a spreadsheet if you need unique links.

Row limits apply to each export:

• Without patron benefits: up to 60 rows from subtitle search or 100 rows from metadata search.
• With patron benefits: up to 10,000 rows, or 2,500 when full subtitles are included.

Subtitle search also offers a Subtitle Timestamps Export option. Use Export embed urls to create links to matching moments on YouTube.

Select a channel, run a search and use Export to download the matching results within your export limit.

• Channel metadata and available full subtitles: open Metadata search, select the channel and run the search. A title query is not required. Choose the columns you need in the export dialog and include full subtitles if available.
• Videos containing a spoken word or phrase: select the channel in subtitle search, enter your keywords and run the search. You can use operators such as "exact phrase" and | for alternatives, then export the matching videos and, if needed, their captions or transcripts.

Available formats include CSV, Compact CSV, JSONL and ZIP. Without patron benefits, one export contains up to 60 subtitle-search rows or 100 metadata-search rows, without descriptions. With patron benefits, the limit is up to 10,000 rows, or 2,500 when full subtitles are included.

Exports cannot retrieve videos outside Filmot's index or captions it has not collected. Exported content remains subject to applicable rights and usage terms.

The search total is an estimate and may not equal the exact number of rows available for export. Exports also have row limits.

Without patron benefits, an export can contain up to 60 rows from subtitle search or 100 from metadata search. With patron benefits, the maximum is 10,000 rows, reduced to 2,500 when full subtitles are included.

Check Max Records in the export dialog to see the selected limit.

Yes. Filmot offers a public, self-service API for searching its index and retrieving video and channel metadata, with subtitles where available.

To get access, sign in, open API Keys, accept the Terms of Service and create a key. Each account can have up to five active keys. Every account receives a monthly API credit allowance, and Patreon supporters receive larger allowances according to their tier.

The API documentation describes the endpoints, parameters, response fields and usage limits. Use the API for automated queries rather than loading the website's search pages with scripts.

API access does not include a full database download or bulk data feed. There is also no API endpoint for requesting that a video or channel be re-indexed. Supporters who want better channel coverage can add the channel to Prioritized Channels through the website.

API requests consume credits according to the endpoint and its documented cost. Your allowance applies to a monthly billing period, and unused credits do not roll over. Patreon supporters receive larger allowances according to tier.

• API Keys shows credits used, credits remaining and the reset time.
• Successful responses include headers with the request cost, usage, remaining credits and allowance reset time.
• A request that would exceed the remaining allowance is rejected with 429 Too Many Requests until the next billing period.

See the API documentation for current endpoint costs and limits. A Markdown version for scripts and AI agents is available at /api-documentation-md.

Filmot's public API provides these endpoints. The API documentation lists their parameters, output fields and usage limits:

• getvideos: stored metadata and optional subtitles for specified video IDs.
• getchannelvideos: recent videos from one or more channels.
• getsubtitlesearch: subtitle, caption or transcript search with export formats.
• getmetadatasearch: title and metadata search.
• getchannels: channel profiles and analytics.
• getsearchchannels: channel lookup by name, @handle or UC channel ID.
• getadvancedchannelsearch: advanced channel search with filters such as channel creation date.

Subtitle search can return matching text snippets with their start times; snippets are enabled by default. Results can be sorted by criteria such as view count, upload date, duration or subtitle-text relevance.

To make requests, sign in and create an API key on API Keys. API access is subject to your account's allowance and the documented endpoint limits.

Yes. Filmot's API documentation is based on an OpenAPI specification available at /openapi.json. You can load the JSON into compatible API tools or client generators. A Markdown version for scripts and AI agents is available at /api-documentation-md.

Companion reference pages cover:

• /api-documentation/search-syntax: subtitle and title expressions. Query strings must be URL-encoded.
• /api-documentation/reference-values: accepted country IDs and subtitle language codes.

API calls require a key. Sign in and create one on API Keys.

Use the values listed on Filmot's API Reference Values page. The API's country IDs and subtitle language codes should be taken from those tables rather than inferred from a country's name or a standard code list.

Countries use numeric IDs. For example, the reference lists the United States as 217, the United Kingdom as 153 and Brazil as 14; do not substitute US, GB or BR in a parameter that expects a country ID.

Subtitle languages use the codes in the language table, such as en for English, de for German and pt for Portuguese. Some values can be unexpected: Hebrew is listed as iw, while Chinese and Cantonese appear separately as zh and yue.

Check the API documentation or the OpenAPI specification for the parameter name, data type and representation the endpoint you are calling expects. The reference tables identify the accepted values; they do not replace the endpoint's request format or guarantee that every language has matching indexed videos.

If a filtered request returns no matches, verify the code or ID and try removing that filter before concluding that the underlying videos are missing.

Yes. The getvideos endpoint returns stored video metadata for one YouTube video ID or a comma-delimited list of IDs. Each record includes the video ID, upload date, duration, title, channel ID and channel name. Use the columns parameter to request additional fields, such as the stored description, view count, like count, category and subtitle, caption or transcript tracks. IDs that Filmot does not know are omitted from the response.

A request can contain up to 200 video IDs, or up to 10 when raw subtitles are requested. The related getchannelvideos endpoint returns recent videos for up to 10 channels identified by their UC channel IDs, with the same selectable fields.

Sign in and create an API key on API Keys after accepting the Terms of Service. See the API documentation for the complete parameters, limits and response format.

Yes. The getchannelvideos API endpoint returns recent videos for up to 10 channels per request, identified by their UC channel IDs. Each video record includes its ID, title, upload date, duration, channel ID and channel name. You can request additional fields, such as the stored description, view count and like count.

The response contains video IDs rather than ready-made YouTube URLs. To build a link, append the ID to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=.

A request returns at most 200 videos across the requested channels, reduced to 10 when raw subtitles are included. Use the page parameter to request further pages for each channel.

Create an API key on API Keys and consult the API documentation for the complete parameters and response format.

Yes. The /getmetadatasearch endpoint accepts an unlisted parameter: 1 selects records marked unlisted, 0 selects records marked listed, and -1 includes both. The related completeData parameter accepts 1 for complete records, 0 for partial records and -1 for both.

The /getchannelvideos and /getvideos endpoints do not have an unlisted filter. You can request isunlisted in their columns parameter to see the status recorded for each returned video.

Status information may be incomplete or outdated. Use an API key from API Keys and consult the API documentation for applicable limits and terms.

Filmot's full metadata and subtitle dataset is not available as a bulk download.

You can retrieve specific search results in two ways:

• Website exports: run a subtitle or metadata search and export the matching videos. Without patron benefits, the limits are 60 rows from subtitle search or 100 rows from metadata search. With patron benefits, an export can contain up to 10,000 rows, or 2,500 when full subtitles are included.
• Public API: use the documented endpoints to search and retrieve video details and available captions programmatically, within your API allowance. Sign in and create a key on API Keys.

Exports and API requests are intended for retrieving search results and selected records, rather than copying the entire database. See the API documentation for programmatic access.

Open Login from the account icon. Select "Sign-in with Patreon". To receive Patreon supporter benefits, use the Patreon account associated with your Filmot membership.

You do not need an account for ordinary searches or standard exports. An account is required for saved searches, private notes and API keys, while prioritized channels require supporter benefits.

Your browser may preserve the signed-in session between visits until it expires, you sign out or cookies are cleared. Private-browsing sessions generally do not persist. Check your recognized Patreon tier on Settings, and use the same sign-in method to access notes, searches and keys associated with that account.

Filmot's basic search features are free. You do not need a Patreon subscription or an account to search subtitles, captions, transcripts and video metadata, or to export results within the standard limits. Anonymous visitors and accounts without patron benefits can export up to 60 rows from subtitle search or 100 rows from metadata search. An account is required for saved searches, private video notes and API keys.

Sign in with your linked Patreon account to receive supporter benefits. Official Patron, Silver Patron and VIP Patron members receive:

• Priority indexing for channels you add on Prioritized Channels: 1, 4 or 15 active channels, respectively. You can change your selections later.
• Larger exports: up to 10,000 rows per export, or 2,500 when full subtitles are included, with stored video descriptions.
• A larger monthly API credit allowance, according to tier.
• More saved searches with automatic daily email digests: 5, 18 or 60, respectively, compared with 1 without patron benefits.
• No captchas on searches.

Abusing the access provided with a Patreon linked account may limit benefits. Verification may still be required for other actions, such as signing in or using the contact form. You can check the recognized Patreon Tier on Settings and support the project through the support page.

• With patron benefits: export up to 10,000 rows, or 2,500 when full subtitles, captions or transcripts are included. Stored video descriptions are included.
• Without patron benefits: export up to 60 rows from subtitle search or 100 rows from metadata search, without descriptions.

Abusing the access provided with a Patreon linked account would cause the standard export limits apply even while your Patreon membership is active. Larger options in the subtitle export dialog may then be marked only available to Patrons. Also check that you signed in with the correct Patreon account and that the Patreon Tier line on Settings shows your tier.

Patreon supporters can add channels to the priority indexing queue on Prioritized Channels. Sign in with your linked Patreon account, search for a channel by name and select a suggestion, or paste @handles or UC channel IDs. You can also submit a list. A channel does not need to be in Filmot already, but it must still be accessible on YouTube.

Priority indexing includes the channel's videos regardless of view count and picks up new uploads faster. It improves coverage in both subtitle search and metadata search, particularly for smaller channels whose videos would not normally meet the subtitle crawling threshold. Supporting Filmot does not automatically prioritize a channel: you need to add it to your list. Captions must still exist on YouTube and be accessible for Filmot to collect them; prioritization cannot create missing subtitles or guarantee discovery of every unlisted video.

The number of channels you can keep active at once depends on your tier:

• Official Patron: 1 channel.
• Silver Patron: 4 channels.
• VIP Patron: 15 channels.

The page shows your quota and remaining slots. Very large channels may require additional review before they are added.

To change your selection, remove a channel from the list to free a slot, then add another. Videos already indexed remain in Filmot; future uploads from the removed channel follow the normal indexing criteria without priority. Priority affects indexing speed and coverage, rather than the channel's ranking in search results.

Saved searches retain your query, filters and selected channels and can notify you about newly found matches. Sign in to manage them.

1. Run a subtitle or metadata search and click the bell button. Give the saved search a name and, optionally, a description.
2. Enable Send daily email digest for automatic daily runs. Searches without this option run when you click Run.
3. Open Saved Searches to inspect results and delivery status, run searches manually or use Send Combined Email. Daily Results shows recent runs.

Digests are delivered to your account email or a separately verified address. Your query terms, selected channels and results may be sensitive; choose a recipient address you control and avoid forwarding confidential digests.

The daily-digest allowance is 1 saved search without patron benefits, 5 for Official Patron, 18 for Silver Patron and 60 for VIP Patron.

To stop an alert, use Turn off this email alert in the digest, disable Send daily email digest on the saved-search page or delete the saved search. Disabling a digest retains the search for manual use. Deleting a saved search also removes its stored results from the saved-search feature; previously delivered emails or separately downloaded copies remain outside that deletion.

Yes. Sign in to add notes to videos from search results, channel pages or video pages. Notes are associated with your account and are not displayed publicly or to other users through the normal interface. They are not end-to-end encrypted or inaccessible to site administrators. Avoid storing passwords or highly sensitive personal information in notes.

A note can contain up to 4,096 characters and an optional color. Use **bold** for emphasis. Timestamps such as 00:15 or 01:02:03 become links to those moments. From subtitle search, you can append matching caption snippets or apply a note to all videos on the current page, either to videos without notes or by overwriting existing notes.

My Notes lists your annotated videos and lets you search note text and filter by channel, date, duration, livestream status or listed/unlisted status. You can request deletion of associated account data through the contact form.

Supporter benefits follow the Patreon tier recognized for your Filmot account. The tier is refreshed when you sign in with Patreon and appears on Settings.

When a membership ends, tier-based benefits such as larger exports, prioritized channels, additional saved searches with daily digests and a higher API allowance no longer apply. Some former supporters may qualify as Generous Former Patron, retaining the benefits of the Official Patron tier.

Free features remain available, including searches, standard-limit exports, private notes and saved searches within the free allowance.

Yes. An annual Patreon membership is available as an alternative to monthly billing. Open Filmot's Patreon page through the support page and use the billing selector on the tier page to choose the yearly plan.

Filmot is an independently operated YouTube search service supported through memberships and voluntary contributions. It does not display advertising.

The support page offers Patreon memberships with additional features and other contribution options. Donations help cover hosting and operating costs.

Open Settings, linked at the bottom of every page. Set Show nag message to No and click Save Settings. This hides the donation message and supporter reminder in your browser.

Use the contact form for support, feedback, privacy questions or reports of a website issue. Describe the problem clearly and include the relevant Filmot URL when possible. Provide a reply email address if you need an answer; avoid including passwords, identity documents or unnecessary personal information.

You can also discuss general questions with other users on the Filmot Discord server, linked from the contact page. Before reporting a common issue, check the FAQ.

Filmot does not store video or audio files and cannot provide copies of deleted videos.

A search that keeps loading, a timeout or an HTTP 500 error usually points to a temporary server problem. It is different from a completed search that simply has no matches, a query-syntax error or a Verify You're Human page.

Try these checks:

1. Open the home page and run a short, simple search. If the site and several unrelated queries all fail, wait and retry later; rapidly refreshing the page is unlikely to help.
2. If only one search fails, remove extra filters and simplify the expression. Keep the original search URL so the problem can be reproduced, but check it for personal or sensitive search terms first.
3. If Filmot cannot be reached at all, try another up-to-date browser or a different network to help tell a local connection problem apart from a site outage. If the results load but playback in a YouTube iframe fails, check whether the error is displayed by the player and comes from YouTube.

For a persistent failure, use the contact form or the Discord link on that page. Include the page or search that failed, the approximate time and your time zone, your browser and the exact error message. Remove or replace any personal or sensitive terms in URLs and search expressions first, and add a screenshot only if it helps, with personal information cropped out. Do not include passwords or API keys.

Temporary interruptions do not by themselves mean that your account has been blocked or that a video has been removed from the index.

Open the FAQ page and use Search questions and answers to find a keyword or phrase. To browse a subject, select it in Filter by keyword; All keywords shows the full list. Browse topics and questions groups questions by topic.

Each answer has a permalink icon that opens its individual page, so you can bookmark it or share a direct link.

If no FAQs match, try shorter terms or another wording. For a question that is not covered, use the contact form or ask on the Discord server linked there.

Filmot may display a captcha or Verify You're Human page when activity appears automated. A verification check does not mean your account is banned, and requirements may vary by connection or activity.

Complete the check to continue. If repeated checks interrupt normal browsing, allow more time between requests. Patreon supporters generally have fewer routine verification interruptions while signed in with the linked Patreon account.

If checks persist, confirm your Patreon account and recognized tier in Settings; signing out and back in may refresh it. Some actions, including sign-in, password reset and contact forms, may still require verification.

For automated queries, use the public API with a key from API Keys, within its published limits. If verification continues to fail, contact support. If the player in a YouTube iframe asks you to sign in or verify that you are human, the request comes from YouTube and is separate from Filmot's own verification checks.

Filmot's human-verification challenge uses hCaptcha, a third-party service. If the images do not load, the challenge is clipped or the touch controls do not respond, refresh the verification page once and open it in a current, full browser rather than an app's embedded or in-app browser.

Check that JavaScript is enabled. If a content blocker or privacy extension seems to stop the challenge from loading, add a site-specific exception or test in a clean browser profile to confirm that is the cause. You can also try another current browser or device. These steps help identify browser or rendering problems; they do not guarantee that a hard challenge becomes easier.

If the problem continues, report it through the contact form or the Discord link there. Include your browser and version and a short description of what happens. The page URL and device type are optional but can help, and a screenshot is usually enough; a screen recording is optional. Keep personal information, email addresses, account details, passwords and unrelated browser tabs out of anything you send.

If a completed captcha repeatedly returns you to the verification page, mention that separately in the report. This FAQ is about a broken or unresponsive challenge; for why checks appear in the first place and how supporter allowances affect them, see the FAQ on the "Verify You're Human" page. A sign-in or anti-bot prompt displayed by the player in a YouTube iframe comes from YouTube and is separate from Filmot's hCaptcha verification.

Use Filmot's documented public API for scripts, bulk queries and automated searches unless another method has been expressly authorized. Automated requests to ordinary website pages may trigger verification checks or access limits.

Sign in, create a key on API Keys and follow the published quotas, rate limits and Terms of Service. Do not bypass captcha checks or access controls. Patreon supporters receive larger monthly API allowances according to tier.

Submit requests concerning personal information in Filmot's public search results through the contact form. This includes requests for erasure, de-indexing or the "right to be forgotten" under applicable data-protection laws, such as the GDPR or CCPA/CPRA where those laws apply. The rights and remedies available depend on the relevant law and circumstances.

You may request review of identifying information in video titles, descriptions, subtitles or channel details even if you do not own the YouTube channel. Provide the Filmot URL or search result, a brief explanation of the concern and, if available, the original YouTube URL. Do not include passwords or identity documents in your initial message; additional verification may be requested when appropriate.

Filmot indexes publicly accessible information about YouTube videos but does not host the underlying video or audio files. Removing a record from Filmot does not remove source material from YouTube or copies held by independent services.

Privacy complaints, copyright notices and Filmot account-deletion requests involve different legal issues and may require different verification. Each request is assessed under applicable law, taking account of relevant rights and circumstances; a particular outcome cannot be guaranteed. See the privacy policy for further information.

Send a channel-data removal request through the contact form, identifying the channel and the records you want reviewed.

Filmot may request reasonable verification that you own the channel or are authorized to act for it. If the channel was deleted or you no longer have access, explain that in your request. Please do not send passwords or identity documents in your initial message; Filmot will explain if additional verification is needed.

You do not need to own a channel to raise a privacy or copyright concern about specific information. These requests are assessed separately and may result in removal or other appropriate action, depending on the circumstances.

Removing a record from Filmot does not remove it from YouTube, the Internet Archive or other independent services.

Filmot does not currently provide self-service account deletion. To request deletion of your account and associated personal data, use the contact form. Include enough information to identify the account, such as its email address or sign-in provider. Filmot may need to verify account ownership before acting; please do not submit passwords or identity documents in your first message.

You can delete some items yourself, including saved searches on Saved Searches and API keys on API Keys. See the privacy policy for information about data handling.

Account deletion is separate from requests about personal information appearing in public video metadata or transcripts. You do not have to own a YouTube channel to request privacy review of information about yourself.

Filmot uses its own cookies and similar storage for sessions, sign-in, security and preferences such as dark mode, language and autoplay settings. It does not use personal information for targeted advertising.

To operate the site and prevent abuse, Filmot and its service providers may process limited technical information such as IP addresses, browser details, requested pages and security logs. Some features involve third-party services, including the video player displayed within a YouTube iframe, hCaptcha and Patreon sign-in. These services may process technical information or use cookies under their own privacy policies. The privacy policy provides further information about these integrations.

Blocking some cookies can interfere with sign-in or saved preferences. The privacy policy explains the categories of information Filmot processes and the services involved.

Yes. Open the Settings page, set "Dark Mode" to On and click Save Settings.

The same page has these display and behaviour options:

• Delay Video Start: start playback a few seconds before the matched moment.
• Language Indicator: show languages as flags, short language codes or full language names.
• Hide and skip unavailable videos, and Metadata videos filter: control how unavailable videos are shown.
• Autoplay videos on mouse-over: play a video preview when you hover over a thumbnail, or preview image, in subtitle search results.
• Experimental Features: enables or disables experimental site features.
• Show nag message.
• Language: the language of the site interface.

Settings are stored in a cookie in your browser, so they apply only to the browser where you saved them. Reset restores the defaults.

Filmot's interface is available in English, German, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, French, Korean, Italian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Vietnamese, Turkish and Ukrainian.

Open Settings, choose a language in the Language dropdown and click Save Settings. The About page also lists the available languages with a button for each.

Your choice is stored in a browser settings cookie. If the language changes back, confirm that you saved it and that cookies are allowed. You may need to select it again after clearing cookies or when using another browser, phone or tablet.

Interface language controls the site's menus and labels. It does not change the subtitle, caption or transcript languages included in your search; use the search's language filters for that.

No installation is required to use filmot.com in a desktop or mobile browser. You can search subtitles and metadata, apply filters and open matching timestamps directly on the website.

Some optional tools require additional software. Title Restorer, for example, is a userscript that needs a browser userscript manager such as Tampermonkey. Review the extension's permissions before installing it. The tool is not required for ordinary Filmot searches.

Independently developed clients or integrations have their own setup and documentation. To build an integration, see the public API documentation and create a key on API Keys.

Filmot uses a day–month–year format with an abbreviated month name, such as 08 Oct 2026. This avoids confusion between the day and month and gives dates a consistent format across regions.

No, the code behind Filmot is not open source.

If you want programmatic access to Filmot's data, Filmot offers a public, self-service API. Sign in, open API Keys, accept the Terms of Service and create a key. Each account can have up to five active keys. Every account has a monthly API credit allowance, and Patreon supporters receive larger allowances according to their tier. See the API documentation for details.

The former Imgur mirror at i.filmot.com is no longer part of the Filmot search service and is unavailable. The About page includes a brief historical note.