Search request failure given certain search terms #15
Description
Note
This issue can be confirmed to affect the App Store version of YouTube (tested on 2.2.0, 2.0.0 and 1.3.0). I have not tested the builtin app that came with versions of iOS preceding iOS 6.0.
Description
There is a bizarre issue with this TubeRepair instance (hosted on https://tuberepair.uptimetrackers.com) where certain searches will fail to generate any videos (but will generate channels). For example, the search term “action retro” will result in the video tab returning an error, but the channel tab returning a list of relevant channels as expected.
Affected terms
- “action retro”
- “mattkc”
Replication
Make sure you are using the same instance as mentioned above!
- Open YouTube.
- Search for one of the affected search terms (e.g. “mattkc”)
Expected: The app will display a list of videos.
Actual: The app will display an error: “Error while loading, tap to retry”
“Solutions”
I found that, for both of these search terms, adding an asterisk to the end of the search fixes this (and actually returns relevant videos), for example “mattkc*” and “action retro*”.
A weird thing to note is that the “action retro” search term had another temporary fix, which was to add a single or double quote to the beginning (“action retro/‘action retro). This fix did not work for the other search term.