Ability to save searches

[toby63]

Is your feature request related to a usage problem (not a bug)? Please describe. Sometimes I like to search for videos and playlists on broader topics (e.g.: Countries, Music Genres, Games etc.) and I would like to have a list of these searches.

Describe the solution you'd like to see implemented Probably:

• a menu item called "Searches" or "Search Favorites" (or something that sounds better): This would include the list of searches
• a button on the "Search Results" page to add the search to the list

Unlike a recent history of searches, this would only include handpicked favorites.

Describe alternatives you've considered

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[efb4f5ff-1298-471a-8973-3d47447115dc]

we can maybe do this combined with #1492.

maybe put a star at the right side of the recent searches and if u want to save that one u can press on the star.

[kommunarr]

My alternative suggestion for this implementation:

Problem description I often want to be able to go to a specific remote playlist, already-opened playlist, channel, or generic page in FreeTube. The workflow I have to support this is writing a set of links in an external text editor and copying & pasting those links into the search bar. It would be convenient if I didn't have to do this.

Proposed suggestion

• General proposal:
  • The ability to bookmark routes (not just keyword searches) through a button on the top nav
  • Be able to set a named alias for those bookmarks through a modal popup
  • When the current route is saved, it shows as starred in the top nav
  • Clicking on the top nav for a bookmarked route opens a modal allowing you to edit the name and/or remove the bookmark
  • Searching for a substring of a bookmark link or alias in the search bar shows the corresponding bookmarks at the top of the search results, with some type of visual (& ARIA) identifier
  • Delete all bookmarks setting in Privacy Settings
• Subsequent PRs:
  • Import / export bookmarks (could potentially implement #1426 along the way)
  • Page / modal for viewing / editing all bookmarks
  • Improve search substring logic

Implementation discussion

• Bookmarking a generic route would be easiest if we could just put a FreeTube route into the search bar.
  • Pros:
  • Easiest
  • Most easily extensible
  • Cons:
  • I don't believe this is currently implemented, and I'm not sure of the level of difficulty
  • Will potentially cause bookmarks to break across versions if our routes change, unless we added code programmatically updating the bookmarks in each such breaking change
• Alternative: grabbing the corresponding Share link (from the preferred backend?) corresponding to the given route
  • Pros:
  • Certainly possible
  • Doesn't require us to add new type of search processing
  • Cons:
  • Will take more manual work to extract the proper share link for each given route
  • Bars non-shareable links from being bookmarked