Search FAQs

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 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.

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.