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Instead of referencing columns by number, I would like to define filters more dynamically. In particular, I'd like a way to say "all columns with th class xx get filter type yyy". Is that possible?

Since 0.9.4.beta.10 you can also use the columnDefs and provide yadcf with a column_selector instead of column_number, see it in action

var columnDefs = [
 "targets": "API",
 "data": "API"
 ,
 
 "targets": "Description",
 "data": "Description"
 ,
 
 "targets": "Category",
 "data": "Category"
 ,
];



var exampleTable1 = $("#example1").DataTable(
 "ajax": 
 "url": "https://api.publicapis.org/entries?category=Animals",
 "cache": true, // Or else `&_=23628934` gets added to the query string.
 "dataSrc": "entries"
 ,
 "columnDefs": columnDefs
);

var yadcfConfiguration = [
 // https://datatables.net/reference/type/column-selector
 column_selector: '.API'
 ,
 
 // https://datatables.net/reference/type/column-selector
 column_selector: '.Description',
 filter_type: "text"
 ,
 
 // https://datatables.net/reference/type/column-selector
 column_selector: '.Category',
 filter_type: "text"
 
 ];

 yadcf.init(exampleTable1, yadcfConfiguration);

I was able to get this resolved. Posting the code in case it is useful to someone else:

// Set filters
var THs = document.getElementsByTagName("th");
var filterArray = ;
for (i = 0; i < THs.length; i++) (THs[i].classList.contains('searchSelect')) 

yadcf.init(containerTable, filterArray);