[Bug] sort_by=upload_date does not work

[greenfoo]

Calling the search endpoint with sort_by=upload_date does not return the results ordered by upload date.

Examples:

• https://watch.thekitty.zone/api/v1/search/?q=Real+Madrid&sort_by=upload_date
• https://invidious.snopyta.org/api/v1/search/?q=Real+Madrid&sort_by=upload_date

I would expect (maybe I'm wrong?) for the results to be sorted according to the "published" property so that they match the order returned by this equivalent YouTube search:

• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=real+madrid&sp=CAI%253D

But #2824 is similar, but not the same, as there is no colon in any of the parameters.

[greenfoo]

I just noticed that this seems to be a more general problem with sort_by:

• sort_by=upload_date and sort_by=view_count do not return results in the expected order.
• sort_by=rating and sort_by=relevance might or might not work, as I don't know which returned field to check... but in any case they return results in the same order (which is also the same order returned by upload_date and view_count).

In other words... it looks like the sort_by has no effect, no matter the argument used.

Either I'm doing something wrong (quite posible!) or there is a bug or the documentation needs to be updated to remove that parameter if no longer supported. Does this make sense?

[DrSocket]

Same issue here, sort_by: upload_date doesn't actually sort by date, but private browser window search by upload_date gives different ordered results than normal search so it seems to be a bug with invidious

update: I was looking through the code, it seems the doc is just wrong, param is just sort not sort_by and value is date and not upload_date.

Everything works. I think the issue can be closed, maybe update the doc.

[ChunkyProgrammer]

sort=date and sort=views seem to be used instead.

@SamantazFox should the api docs be updated or should the code be updated to support both? The parameter name (sort_by => sort) and some of the values (upload_date => date, view_count => views) in the api docs don't match what is used in Invidious

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[ChunkyProgrammer]

PR is still open in the docs repo so this can stay open