There are two ways to conduct advanced TV searches in SnapStream. For beginning users, access the dropdown from the TV search bar and utilize the easy fill-in-the-blank text fields. For advanced users, type the search operators directly next to your search terms, to add further refinements (Cheat sheet for a complete list.)
TV Search Operators Guide
Search Filters
| Filters | Description | Example Search |
|---|---|---|
| ACTOR: | Search only the actor field within a show or movie. | ACTOR: "Jennifer Lawrence" |
| AFTER: | Used to find results made after a date or time. | AFTER: 8/1/2015 13:30 |
| AFTERCLIP: | Used to find clip results made after a date or time. | AFTERCLIP: 8/1/2015 13:30 |
| BEFORE: | Used to find results made before a date or time. | BEFORE: 8/1/2015 13:30 |
| BEFORECLIP: | Used to find clip results made before a date or time. | BEFORECLIP: 8/1/2015 13:30 |
| CALLSIGN: | Search recordings made on a channel with a particular callsign. | CALLSIGN: KHOU |
| CATEGORY: | Search programs listed in a particular category. | CATEGORY: COMEDY or CATEGORY: DRAMA etc. |
| CHANNEL: | Search a particular network, callsign, or channel number. | CHANNEL: 1021 or CHANNEL: NBC or CHANNEL: KPRC |
| CREDIT: | Filter results to credits for a show (director, producer, etc.) | CREDIT: Spielberg |
| DATE: | Dates must be entered as a month/day or as month/day/year. Terms can be entered as a date or as a time period. | DATE: 8/1 or DATE: 8/1/2015 or DATE: LASTWEEK or DATE: YESTERDAY etc. |
| DESCRIPTION: | Search only within program description (general info, actors, etc.) | DESCRIPTION: Gaga |
| IS: | Filter results to a particular type of file. Recording search: AD, ARCHIVED, CLIP, ORIGINAL, SHOWSQUEEZE. Guide search: GENERIC, SPORTS, SCHEDULED. Both: HD, MOVIE. | IS: CLIP or IS: AD or IS: MOVIE -IS: HD or IS: SPORTS NOT IS: MOVIE etc. |
| TAG: | Search only specific tags. (time-coded and video tags) | TAG: Funny |
| TEXT: | Search only within closed-captioning data. | TEXT: Watt |
| TITLE: | Search information only in the title of a show. | TITLE: Ellen |
Basic TV Search
| Operators | Description | Example Search |
|---|---|---|
| OR | Search for multiple terms occurring together, or either separately. | SENATE OR CONGRESS |
| NOT or - (minus sign) | Exclude results containing certain terms. | APPLE WATCH -IPHONE |
| " " (quotation marks) | Search for an exact sequence of words. | "PARIS HILTON" |
| ( ) (Parentheses) | Group words together in a search. | HOUSTON (ROCKETS OR ASTROS) |
Fancy Schmancy TV Search
| Operators | Description | Example Search |
|---|---|---|
| * (asterisk) | A "wildcard" search helps find unknown characters. | ENGL* results for "English", "England", etc. |
| ~ (tilde) | A "fuzzy" search. Helps to find misspellings of words. | JOHN~ results for "JOHN", "JON", etc. |
| " " ~N (number of words) | Find keywords that occur within a specified proximity of each other. | "SENATOR MCCAIN" ~10 results for "Senator" and "McCain" within 10 words of each other. |