[Feature-Request] Search Watch History

[TangentFoxy]

Is your enhancement request related to a problem? Please describe.
Sometimes I want to find a specific video in my watch history, but since I can only search YouTube itself, I can't find it easily.

Describe the solution you'd like
I would like the ability to search videos in watch history.

Describe alternatives you've considered
I mean, the only alternatives are non-viable in my opinion:

1. Manually clicking through watch history (and trying to guess video titles because [Enhancement] Title under videos for "Watch History" #3035 doesn't exist either).
2. Searching all of YouTube (which because of Invidious' privacy, which I desire, returns video unrelated to me).

Additional context
I think making it similar to YouTube's own search of watch history would be ideal: A search box that only appears on the watch history page(s).

[SamantazFox]

That's a good idea, but don't expect that to come soon.

Major pain points:

• We'd need to store video titles (history is only video IDs at the moment)
• This requires an full search indexer to be added (I don't know if we can use an existing lib for this), which could hurt performance a lot (invidious is currently single threaded, we have to iron out a lot of stuff to make multi-threading a thing).

[s-h-a-d-o-w]

I don’t know how invidious stores data but given that YouTube’s own search is quite buggy (Time and time again, it doesn’t find videos that contain words X and Y in the title when searching for X. But when looking for Y, the video does show up.), even a simple substring match like databases usually offer in the title field would not just be great in general but also an improvement over whatever YouTube does. 😅