How do I use the advanced search syntax?

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

FiltersDescriptionExample 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

OperatorsDescriptionExample Search
ORSearch 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

OperatorsDescriptionExample 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.

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