Is it possible to filter a search to exclude a channel

[mrchrisadams]

Hi folks - I’m aware that sepia has a neat search tool, Sepiasearch.

However, when carrying out a search, I realised that some results linked to a channel on an instance that was down. Is there a way to filter out searches, instead of filtering a search to only include results from a specific channel?

Here’s what I see in sepia search:

I’ve tried a few variants of common search syntax like « -ThatChannel » to remove say… ThatChannel from results, but I’m not having much luck - is there a syntax I should be using, or would I need to open an issue on the underlying codebase?

I’m aware of this result here that suggests creating an issue, but it looks like it’s from 2019:

Add a channel filter to search results

Hey ! When we are searching a channel in the search bar, the search results can show some of the corresponding channels mixed with the videos and the channel we are searching can be unfindable and it become hard to find this searched channel. Currently, there is many filters for the search results but no filters for channels. [Filters for the search results] I think that a filter for channel could be a good idea to add because it can be more simple to share a channel name than a channel id.…

Before I filed an issue, it seemed worth asking here first.

Merci!

[Chocobozzz]

Hi,

Unfortunately it’s not possible: what is the channel?