Filter youtube videos

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1

Hi,

I want to find videos again I have watched by specific creators which is why I usually tag the videos with their title and creator. Unfortunately, logseq doesn’t create a separate page for videos, so I can’t use the filter. Otoh, roam does have this feature.

Has anyone found a workaround yet?

logseq: {{video https://youtu.be/R8uxmXmtOrk}}
roam: {{[[video]]: https://youtu.be/R8uxmXmtOrk}}

2

Welcome. Try a query like this one:

#+BEGIN_QUERY
{:title "Blocks that contain string youtu"
  :query [:find (pull ?b [*])
    :where
        [?b :block/content ?content]
        [(clojure.string/includes? ?content "youtu")]
  ]
}
#+END_QUERY
  • Such a query can be slow in big graphs.
    • As soon as you get the results, proceed to tag them (e.g. with #video).
      • That way you will get the separate page video with all of them.
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3

If there are a lot of such videos in your graph, consider writing your own script to automate the entire workflow:

  • Script processes all markdown files
    • Extract a {{video }} block using regex
    • Get HTML content from YouTube link
    • Get title and creator info from HTML content
    • Writes the info as tags (or properties) back to the markdown file, in a way that Logseq recognizes
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