Subscription feed filter

[arjuna17jax]

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Feature description

Checkboxes for different streams

• Videos
• Shorts
• Live

Why do you want this feature?

I have a lot of channel subscription. And some of them are active streamers. Most of the time i only want to browse short duration videos on my subscription feed. And the amount of live streams both lives and archive usually make it a hassle to scroll down.

Additional information

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[Mrnofish]

Dealing with channels that post a high number of videos really makes filtering a pretty basic feature.

Besides the suggested changes (long/short in particular being the most important IMO), being able to set up static (i.e. pre-configured) text filters for each channel would also do wonders to improve the situation.

[Fehertukor]

Any news about this project?
I am thankful for the whole newpipe team fo their work!
I desperately need this function, even if only "the hide live streams" would work like "upcoming videos" filter.

[Xlazzar]

Any progress? This is a very desirable feature!

[Cwpute]

The ability to do this by channel would be a huge plus, so that subscription groups only shows us what we want.

[AndySchroder]

Might be useful to have the ability to pause updates for a subscription or put subscriptions into different categories. It's really easy to miss a high impact but low frequency publisher because your feed is bloated with many other interesting but high volume (and potentially hit or miss) publishers.

[AndySchroder]

actually, i just realized that if I click the eyeball icon on the "What's new" tab, it lets me filter out Upcoming videos.

[AndySchroder]

I think 4 simple features could solve all of this:

1. when Subscribing to a channel, allow to put it directly into a group (such as comedy, culture, nature, science, politics, etc.).
2. Allow groups to be displayed as tabs
3. allow easier adding of channels to a group when in the group
4. allow adding a channel to a group when in a channel

Right now the group feature exists, but it is just too hard to use.

[cegfault]

For those who don't know, Settings > Content > Fetch Channel Tabs can filter out a lot of that content. Not exactly what OP wants, but useful to know.

[SameenAhnaf]

IMO, this option should be remembered for each channel group separately. Many channels upload shorts, it's hard to filter each individually

[natewind]

@SameenAhnaf If it’s filtered per group and not per channel, will it still apply in the “What’s New” tab? Not everybody wants to use separate group tabs; it’s nice to have a clean flat feed. Especially if it’s filtered and therefore not cluttered.

[natewind]

Also, to all mainteiners: when you decide whether to implement this, please consider #11555 in your calculations, as the justification there is a tad more elaborate. Thank you.

[opusforlife2]

@natewind You could paste it as a comment here.

[natewind]

@opusforlife2 Good idea!

There are often cases when you want only specifc types of content from a channel, e. g.:

• You don’t like it enough to watch the long-form videos, but the shorts are fun
• You watch their long-form videos, but the shorts are just clips from them for promotion
• You like their regular videos, but the live streams are boring/annoying
• You use their live streams as background and aren’t interested in anything else

And it would be a more pleasant experience without the need to filter out all the noise visually.

BTW, #10676 doesn’t really solve this because you still have to filter, now in several tabs. Plus, it’s nice to have a clean flat list of new videos, without the extra complexity of separate categories.