Sort videos (inside channels and playlists) by views and dates

[zolagonano]

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• This issue contains only one feature request. I will open one issue for every feature I want to request.

What feature do you want?

I want to have an option for sorting videos by their dates or views.

Why do you want this feature?

Because scrolling down and finding the oldest video or most popular video is frustrating (especially if the channel/playlist has lots of videos).

[Jel19]

Just my 2 cents. I love the app. As a user, the issue I experience most... which is, literally, every time I search for videos through any means (text search, what's new, etc), is the returned video list is not sorted by descending date order. This order might be the most logical default to use.

[opusforlife2]

This order might be the most logical default to use.

The default order on all mainstream sites is to sort by relevance. The only examples of default sorting by date I know are indie/small platforms that are in beta or an in-development state.

[Jel19]

The default order on all mainstream sites is to sort by relevance.

Ok, I assumed the user's search inputs provided relevance. Even still, having the results date sorted is very useful as it allows user's to quickly assess applicability/relevance based on video age. Product review searches (e.g car road test,etc.) provide a ready example of when a date ordered result list would be helpful.

[AudricV]

I started a while ago an implementation, but I am not sure of what I did in terms of code model. I feel that the current implementation is a bit strange (using strings for sort filters).

If you want to go ahead (I don't work on this for now, but on something else, that's not my priority for now), you can go ahead, especially because I am not able do the app implementation due to the lack of knowledge I have in Android specific development.

Here are some tips to help you:

• for the extractor implementation:

  • this is controlled currently by LinkHandlers and LinkHandlerFactor[ies]. You will have to add support on LinkHandlerFactor[ies] of services and probably makes changes on ChannelInfos to allow passing sort filters (they are currently using string arrays, but free feel to change this (by instance to a list instead if you think keeping strings is a good idea). For more details about how this works, take a look at our documentation;

  • for YouTube channels (there is no way to sort playlists):

    • here are the protobuf parameters values you need to use in the browse requests of the InnerTube API:
      • sort by newest (default), which is current behavior: EgZ2aWRlb3M%3D
      • sort by oldest: EgZ2aWRlb3MYAiAAMAE%3D
      • sort by views: EgZ2aWRlb3MYASAAMAE%3D

    (edit: with the new layout, filters are using continuations, making sorting harder. Sort by oldest option is also removed)

  • for PeerTube accounts and channels, take a look at the API documentation: there are more possibilities than on YouTube;

  • for MediaCCC conferences: sorting videos in not supported by the API, but only on HTML pages. Because we only use the API, you would have nothing to touch (unless I missed something, but I am pretty sure that's not the case);

  • for SoundCloud users: you can popular tracks by quering the toptracks endpoint of SoundCloud's internal API, the current sort is the one of the tracks tab (tracks endpoint) (by newest);

  • for Bandcamp users: there is no ability to sort tracks uploaded by a user.

• for the app implementation:
  • you will need to do some changes in ChannelFragment, in its view XML files, add string resources and maybe more.

If you need additional help, don't hesitate to join our IRC channel to ask questions!

[amduae]

Isn't this the same as #2251 mentioned in Major planned missing features or this considered different as it's only sorting by date and views.

[opusforlife2]

2251 is about search. This is about channels. So maybe the underlying framework for sorting and filtering could be the same, but the UI part would be different.

[dimyself]

i am also interested in being able to change the sort order of a search... kind of like youtube currently has, if possible:

sort by relevance (current default)
sort by date - (if i'm looking for recent content/news, this is invaluable. it will bypass old stuff)
sort by length - (sometimes i wanna bypass all the short crap if i know i'm looking for only longer vids)