YouTube Date Search Query Builder

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Languages & date formats

Each checked format multiplies the rows.

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Numeric patterns

Language-agnostic. Generated once, in their own output group.

Zero-pad day & month 01/04/2020 Also 2-digit year 01/04/20

2-digit versions are added for the day-first and month-first patterns; year-first patterns are skipped (a 2-digit year-first date is ambiguous).

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Date range

Every selected day of each checked month.

Whole months Single date

Year

YouTube launched on February 14, 2005, and the first video was uploaded on April 23, 2005, so earlier years won’t match upload dates, only dates mentioned in titles.

Days

1–31 keeps every day · 1–7 samples just the first week of each month.

Weekends only Saturdays & Sundays

Upload-date operators

Append after:<date> uploaded on or after that day Append before:<next day> uploaded before the following day

Check both to limit each search to videos uploaded on that exact date, on top of the date appearing in the query.

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Queries

Joined with | (OR). Empty fields are skipped.

Wrap query group in parentheses "date" (q1 | q2 | q3) Quote each term (exact match) "full episode" | "news"

Each becomes -term; multi-word entries are quoted, e.g. -"music video".

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Preset filters

Encoded into YouTube’s sp parameter, same as the native filter menu.

Sort by

Type

Duration

Upload date

Features