Filtering based on title

Video filtering can be configured to filter using keyword-based filters for video titles. When a video’s title matches the configured keyword, the video filter will take the corresponding action of allow, monitor, or block. Video filtering is only supported in proxy-based inspection mode, and deep inspection must be enabled in the firewall policy.

The YouTube API key must be configured to use this feature. Otherwise, the title filter will not retrieve the video information and bypass the traffic. See YouTube API key for more information.

Basic configuration

In this example, videos are blocked that contain the keyword, game. For information about configuring video filter keyword lists, see Example configuration.

To configure the video filter profile in the GUI:

1. Configure the video filter profile:

   1. Go to Security Profiles > Video Filter, select the Video Filter Profile tab, and click Create new.

   2. Enter a name (title-filter-profile).

   3. In the Filters table, click Create new.

   4. Configure the filter with the following settings:

      1. Set the Type to Title.

      2. Set the Action to Block.

      3. Set the Keyword to test-keyword-match-or.

      4. Click OK.

   5. Click OK to save the video filter profile.

2. Apply the video filter in a firewall policy.

To configure the video filter profile in the CLI:

1. Configure the video filter profile:

   config videofilter profile
       edit "title-filter-profile"
           config filters
               edit 1
                   set type title
                   set keyword 1
                   set action block
                   set log enable
               next
           end
       next
   end

2. Apply the video filter in a firewall policy.

Verifying the configuration

From a client, search for a video in YouTube named "How To Use Python Steam API || Steam game API python". The video is blocked.

Sample log:

6: date=2023-11-24 time=09:51:30 eventtime=1700848289598975941 tz="-0800" logid="0350013712" type="utm" subtype="webfilter" eventtype="unknown" level="warning" vd="vdom1" msg="Video title is blocked." policyid=1 poluuid="19841eb8-841c-51ee-7047-6a6860eb3522" sessionid=384813810 srcip=10.1.100.141 dstip=142.251.33.110 srcport=21473 dstport=443 srcintf="port2" srcintfrole="undefined" dstintf="port1" dstintfrole="undefined" proto=6 httpmethod="GET" service="HTTPS" action="blocked" videoinfosource="API" profile="title-filter-profile" videoid="LaRHkSVvDjI" videotitle="How To Use Python Steam API  || Steam game API python" hostname="www.youtube.com" agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KH" url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaRHkSVvDjI"