Search FAQs

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 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.

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.

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 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.