Fixes the 'cancelled but still shows running' stuck bug and adds real depth:
- classify_state now distinguishes 'cancelled' from 'failed'.
- Monitor is robust to slskd forgetting a transfer: if it's gone, it first tries to
complete from the FILE on disk (survives the music 'Clean Completed Downloads'
auto-clear), else counts misses and fails the row after ~8 polls instead of hanging
on 'downloading' forever. Cancelled transfers → cancelled status.
- POST /downloads/cancel (slskd DELETE transfer + mark cancelled) and /downloads/retry
(re-grab the same release). get_video_download(id) added; clear includes cancelled.
process_download stays pure (fs/slskd injected); 15 tests, ruff + guard clean.
Phase B (page: tabs/queue/history/cancel+retry buttons) next.
The old search did a 4.5s slskd search + 8s wait; slskd responses trickle in over
10-30s, so the window closed before results arrived (you'd see them in slskd but the
panel said none). Now it works like the music side:
- slskd_search.start_search() (uses the shared soulseek.search_timeout) + poll_responses().
- POST /downloads/search/start (mock = immediate; soulseek = returns a search id) +
GET /downloads/search/poll. Shared _evaluate_hits ranks each poll's hits.
- UI streams: starts the search, polls every 1.3s, renders results live with a
'searching…' badge, stops when results plateau (4 stable polls) or ~32s. Live
re-renders suppress per-card entrance so it doesn't blink.
Tests green, ruff clean.
backfill_next returns rows keyed by title/kind/id/imdb_id (no 'name'), so the
'Enriched movie None via Trakt' spam was just the log line reading the wrong key.
Now logs the real title in the 'enriched' line, the fetch-failed line, and the
current-item status. Cosmetic only — the Trakt sweep itself was working correctly
(one-time backfill of the movie catalogue; each row marked once, never loops).
Phase 2 — the engine:
- core/video/download_monitor.py: a daemon thread polls slskd for active video
downloads, updates progress, and on completion MOVES the file from the shared
download folder into the per-type library folder + marks it completed. The
per-download decision (process_download) is pure (fs + slskd injected) — 6 tests.
- POST /downloads/grab: validates (Soulseek-only v1), resolves the target library by
kind, starts the slskd download, records the row, lazily starts the monitor.
- GET /downloads/active (list + ensure monitor running) · POST /downloads/clear
(drop finished).
14 tests, isolation guard + ruff clean. Grab button + Downloads page next.
The Soulseek ⌕ now actually queries your slskd instance instead of fabricating
results. core/video/slskd_search.py (isolated): build_query(scope,…) → POST
/api/v0/searches (shared soulseek.* URL+key) → poll /responses (bounded ~8s,
early-exit at 25) → keep video files → group_video_files() folds them into one hit
per release folder with a peer count + the fastest available source. Same
{title,size_bytes,…} shape, so parse→evaluate→rank/cards are unchanged.
Endpoint routes source=='soulseek' to slskd (torrent/usenet stay mocked), surfaces
'slskd not configured' / network errors, carries username/peers/slots/filename
through for the cards + a future real Grab, and caps to 40. Pure helpers tested (4);
isolation guard + ruff clean.
mock_search now takes the source and gives Soulseek / Torrent / Usenet distinct
hits — different release-group pools, seeder magnitudes, and which qualities show
up (Soulseek drops the top remux, Usenet drops the cam, etc.), the way real
indexers differ. Endpoint forwards body.source. Fixes 'click Torrent shows the
same results as Soulseek'. +1 test.
core/video/release_parse.py (pure, isolated): parse_release(title) → resolution,
source (remux/bluray/web-dl/webrip/hdtv/dvd/cam/screener/workprint), codec, HDR,
audio, group, repack/proper/3d, and crucially the SCOPE — single episode (SxxExx)
vs season pack (Sxx / Season N) vs complete-series pack (S01-S05 / COMPLETE). The
search layer uses this to validate that a hit matches what was searched. 9 tests,
isolation guard + ruff clean. First piece of the live search pipeline.
The shared judge both the Download modal and the later-phase engine will use:
core/video/quality_eval.py (pure, isolated) — resolution_rank/resolution_label,
meets_cutoff (loose resolution target), and evaluate_owned(file, profile) →
{meets, resolution_label, reasons[]}. A copy is 'below target' when its resolution
is under the loose cutoff, or its codec is on the reject list.
Exposed as POST /api/video/downloads/evaluate (loads the stored profile, judges the
posted file). 9 tests green, isolation guard green, ruff clean.
Boulder: 'youtube should have its own quality profile — there are not many options.'
Right — YouTube is grabbed with yt-dlp, not scene/p2p releases, so the Radarr-style
ladder/cutoff/rejects/HDR-audio tiers are meaningless. Added a small, separate profile:
- core/video/youtube_quality.py (pure, isolated): max_resolution ceiling
(best…360p), video_codec (any/av1/vp9/h264, soft), container (mp4/mkv/webm),
prefer_60fps, allow_hdr. normalize/load/save → video.db youtube_quality_profile.
- api/video/downloads.py: GET/POST /downloads/youtube-quality.
- UI: a 'YouTube Quality' card on the Downloads tab (data-video-only) — resolution
dropdown + codec/container segmented + 60fps/HDR checks, reusing the vq-* styles.
Wired into onPageShown + the save-all chain.
The (later-phase) yt-dlp downloader maps these to a format/format_sort selection.
9 new tests green, isolation guard green, ruff clean, JS/HTML balance clean.
Addressing UX feedback (Boulder): the cutoff and size guard were confusing for a
library that holds BOTH movies and TV.
- 'Upgrade until' is now a LOOSE resolution target (4K / 1080p / 720p / SD /
'best — never stop'), not a specific source×resolution tier. 4K is always in
the list regardless of which tiers are toggled on (the old dropdown only
listed enabled tiers, so 4K vanished when off). Stored as cutoff_resolution.
- Size guard split into Max movie size + Max episode size (runtime-aware, like
Radarr's MB/min but human-readable) — a flat GB cap was meaningless across a
2-hour movie and a 25-min episode. Dropped the confusing min slider.
Pure-logic + API + UI in lockstep; removed the now-dead per-row cutoff marker.
12 tests green, ruff clean, JS/HTML balance clean.
Replaces the simplified resolutions+4-sources+codec model with a real quality
ladder to actually stand in for Radarr/Sonarr:
- tiers: source×resolution ladder (Remux-2160p … SDTV) as one ranked, toggleable
list, best→worst, with a cutoff (stop upgrading once the library holds a tier
at/above it — no endless re-grabbing).
- rejects: hard blocks (cam/screener/workprint/3d, optional x264).
- soft preferences (score/tie-break, never reject alone): prefer_codec (any/hevc/av1),
prefer_hdr (off/prefer/require), prefer_audio (any/surround/lossless/atmos),
prefer_repack.
- size guard: min/max GB per item (0 = no limit), min pinned to a real cap.
Pure normalize/load/save (no DB/network), isolated from music. API endpoint is an
unchanged passthrough. 12 tests green, ruff clean. UI next.
Video-specific Download Source section: a mode dropdown limited to Soulseek / Torrent /
Usenet / Hybrid (no streaming sources — those are music-only). In hybrid mode, a chain
builder lists the three sources with arrow-reorder + enable toggles (best-first), and
NO album-level/track-level badges (a music-only concept, per spec).
- core/video/download_config.py: pure normalize for download_mode + hybrid_order
(validates to the 3 sources, dedupes, never empties); stored in video_settings.
- /api/video/downloads/config GET/POST now carries download_mode + hybrid_order
alongside the folders.
- video-settings.js: dropdown + hybrid rows render/reorder/toggle, show the hybrid
container only in hybrid mode, save on change. Reuses the .vq-row styling.
7 tests (6 pure + 1 API). Next: the shared slskd connection block (reads/writes the
music config_manager so both sides share one slskd) + confirming the shared Indexers tab.
AniList defaults off (anime opt-in), so it showed 'Not configured' — implying a
missing API key, when it's keyless and just toggled off in Settings > Community Data
(No Key). Workers now report needs_key in get_stats (True for the key-gated
fanart/opensubtitles/trakt + all matchers; False for the keyless toggles). The
manager rail/pill + dashboard-header tooltip show 'Disabled' / 'Off — enable in
Settings' for a disabled keyless worker, and keep 'Not configured' only for ones
that genuinely need a key.
(The AniList on/off toggle already exists in the collapsed 'Community Data (No Key)'
settings frame — this just makes the status honest about what's needed.)
Fifth/final service. Keyless, movies + shows, on by default → toggle in the
'Community Data (No Key)' frame.
- WikidataWorker: two-step lookup — find the entity by IMDb id (haswbstatement P345)
then read its official website (P856); stores wikidata_url. Registered in
build_backfill_workers.
- DB: wikidata_url/status/attempted on movies + shows + _BACKFILL/_BACKFILL_COLS;
both detail payloads return wikidata_url.
- config GET/POST wikidata_enabled; manager orb (green 🔗) + status poll; detail page
'Official Site' link badge alongside IMDb/TMDB/TVDB.
- 3 new tests (incl. the two-step fetch) + fixed-set/config assertions.
34 backfill tests green, ruff clean. All five new services (Trakt, TVmaze, AniList,
DeArrow, Wikidata) now have the full worker/DB/connections/orb/manager/detail parity.
Fourth service. Rides the YouTube-video enrich path (like RYD/SponsorBlock), keyless,
on by default → toggle in the YouTube-Extras frame.
- DeArrowWorker: fetches the branding API and stores the first non-original crowd
title for a cached YouTube video. apply_youtube_dearrow + youtube_video_dearrow_title
DB methods; dearrow_status added to the youtube_enrich next/breakdown whitelists.
- Schema: dearrow_title/status/attempted on youtube_video_stats (video_schema.sql +
_COLUMN_MIGRATIONS for existing DBs).
- config GET/POST dearrow_enabled; manager orb (blue 🏹, video-kind) + status poll;
YT video-detail panel shows a 'DeArrow' alt-title (payload via youtube.py + CSS).
- 4 new tests + fixed-set/config assertions.
30 backfill tests green. (My change is ruff-clean; the 12 pre-existing S110s in
api/video/youtube.py are unrelated tech debt on this branch, left untouched.)
Third service. Keyless GraphQL (new _http_post_json helper) → enable toggle in the
'Community Data (No Key)' frame, OFF by default (anime-niche + title-search match).
- AniListWorker: TV-only, searches AniList by title and stores the anime averageScore
(0-100), with a conservative normalized-title guard so a fuzzy anime search can't
attach a score to a non-anime show. anilist_enabled toggle (default off).
- DB: anilist_score/status/attempted on shows + _BACKFILL/_BACKFILL_COLS (keyed on
title); show_detail returns anilist_score.
- config GET/POST anilist_enabled (default 0); manager orb (blue 🎌) + status poll;
detail page 'AniList 85%' chip (+ CSS).
- 4 new tests (incl. the title-mismatch rejection) + fixed-set/config assertions.
27 backfill tests green, ruff clean. (Note: the youtube_status_route test still
flaps on the sandbox WSL WAL disk-I/O — environmental, unrelated.)
Second service. Keyless (no API key) → an enable toggle in a new 'Community Data
(No Key)' connections frame, mirroring the YouTube-Extras pattern.
- TVmazeWorker: TV-only (no movie DB), looks a show up by imdb/thetvdb id and
gap-fills the TVmaze community rating. On by default; tvmaze_enabled toggle.
- DB: tvmaze_rating/status/attempted on shows + _BACKFILL/_BACKFILL_COLS (show only);
show_detail returns tvmaze_rating.
- config GET/POST tvmaze_enabled; manager orb (teal 📺, show-kind) + status poll;
detail page TVmaze rating chip (+ CSS).
- 4 new tests + the 3 fixed-set/config-exact assertions updated.
Note: one UNRELATED test (youtube_status_route) flaps on a WSL WAL 'disk I/O error'
in this sandbox (pass/fail/fail across reruns of identical code) — environmental, not
this change; the TVmaze + config tests pass consistently.
First of the new enrichment services, wired to the SAME standard as the rest:
- TraktWorker backfill (core/video/enrichment/backfill.py): looks a title up by its
IMDb id (?extended=full) and gap-fills the community rating + vote count. Registered
in build_backfill_workers.
- DB: trakt_rating/trakt_votes/trakt_status/trakt_attempted columns + _BACKFILL /
_BACKFILL_COLS registration; detail payloads return trakt_rating/votes.
- Connections tab: Trakt service frame (Client ID field + Test button), wired into
video-settings.js load/save/bindings and the /enrichment/config GET+POST.
- Worker-manager modal + orb: WORKERS registry entry (red ★) + status-poll SERVICES
list, so it gets the same orb animation + per-service matched/pending/error card.
- Detail page: a 'Trakt 8.2' rating chip alongside IMDb/RT/Metacritic (+ CSS).
5 new tests + 2 fixed-set assertions updated; 249 video tests green, ruff clean.
Adds a VideoBackfillWorker base that enriches already-identified items BY id
(vs the matcher workers), with the exact same lifecycle + get_stats() shape so
the engine registry, /api/video/enrichment routes, and Manage-Workers modal
drive them identically.
Workers:
- fanart.tv (free key): gap-fills logo/clearart/banner/backdrop/poster art
- OpenSubtitles (free key): records subtitle-language availability per title
- Return YouTube Dislike (no key): like/dislike estimates on cached videos
- SponsorBlock (no key): crowd segments per video
DB: youtube_video_stats + youtube_video_segments tables; fanart/subs columns;
backfill_next/mark/breakdown + youtube_enrich_* helpers; likes/dislikes merged
into get_channel_videos. Seam tests in tests/test_video_backfill.py.
Correcting the cookies theory — ytdl-sub is just CLI yt-dlp (no browser). The real
differentiators are a CURRENT yt-dlp + not fighting YouTube's client identity. We
were pinning a static user_agent in the yt-dlp opts, which yt-dlp recommends against
(it trips YouTube's heuristics and truncates large-playlist pagination). Dropped it
so yt-dlp manages its own (current) client — the lever that lets a fresh ytdl-sub
page further than us. (_UA is still used for the InnerTube requests.) Softened the
partial-playlist note to just 'Showing N of TOTAL videos.'
A big playlist read '97' because yt-dlp flat caps playlist extraction at ~100 and
its playlist_count is often unset, so we showed the FETCHED count. Now the detail
endpoint overlays the InnerTube playlist browse (browseId VL<id>): curator-ordered
videos up to ~200 (vs yt-dlp's ~100) AND the real count from the header's
numVideosText (e.g. '512 videos'). The billboard shows the true total; when the
list is partial it says 'Showing the first N of TOTAL videos (YouTube limits
playlist browsing).' Live-validated (Veritasium uploads: total 512, 200 loaded).
103 tests green.
Honest cap: YouTube's browse only exposes ~200 of a playlist (page 2 returns no
continuation), so very large playlists show the right COUNT but list ~200.
A playlist is now a first-class watchlist type alongside channels:
- core: parse_playlist_id (URL/bare id; rejects mixes RD… + personal lists) +
resolve_playlist → {playlist_id, title, channel_title, video_count, thumbnail,
videos} in the CURATOR's order (partial set, not by year).
- db: add/remove/list/watch_state for kind='playlist' video_watchlist rows
(mirrors channels; same surrogate scheme, separate kind so they don't collide).
- api: /youtube/resolve now detects playlist links; /youtube/playlist/follow +
/unfollow; the existing /youtube/playlist/<id> is upgraded to also return the
playlist meta + following (serves the channel-page expansion AND the new detail
view from one route); /youtube/channels also returns followed playlists.
Validated live (Lex Fridman playlist resolves title+owner+videos). 190 tests green.
Frontend (search detect + result card + detail view + watchlist display) next.
TV episode rows show runtime; channel video cards showed nothing per video. The
InnerTube lockup already carries both — now we capture duration ('12:34') + an
approximate view count (parsed from '2.6M views') in innertube_parse_video_items,
remember them on youtube_channel_videos (new duration/view_count cols + migration),
and render a duration badge bottom-right of the thumb + 'N views' in the card meta.
The background stream backfills them onto the recent (yt-dlp) videos too, so the
whole catalog gets them. Live-validated (MrBeast: 32:08 / 50M, 30/30). 65 tests green.
Channel pages re-fetched everything every open (re-stream + ~3s yt-dlp metadata).
Now we remember what we learn about a channel and serve it cache-first:
- schema: youtube_channel_videos (list) + youtube_channel_meta (avatar/subs/tags/
banner); dates stay in youtube_video_dates, merged on read. DB: cache_/get_
channel_videos + cache_/get_channel_meta (upserts COALESCE so refreshes never
drop fields).
- enricher: _enrich now REMEMBERS a channel — caches the full InnerTube catalog
(list, via new innertube_channel_catalog) + metadata + dates, not just dates.
Since it already sweeps followed channels, watchlisted channels get pre-warmed
in the background → opening them is instant.
- channel endpoint: cache-first. A remembered channel renders from cache with NO
network (returns from_cache:true); a miss resolves live (yt-dlp) and remembers
it. The /videos batch endpoint caches every page it streams.
- frontend: cache hit renders the full catalog instantly, then re-streams to
refresh QUIETLY (new uploads/date fixes); only the first (miss) load shows the
'loading full history' banner.
Live-validated (MrBeast catalog: 90/3 pages, all titled+dated). 190 tests green.
The channel page was capped at the recent 90 (yt-dlp flat, hard min(90,limit)),
so prolific channels (Ninja Kidz etc.) showed only ~90 of hundreds. Now it loads
everything via YouTube's InnerTube API, paginated by continuation token — each
page fetched once (O(n), light on rate limits), unlike yt-dlp offset batches
which re-scan from the start every time.
- core: innertube_parse_video_items (keeps title+thumbnail, not just dates) +
innertube_channel_videos_page(channel_id, continuation) → {videos, continuation}.
- api: GET /youtube/channel/<id>/videos?continuation=<tok> returns ~a batch of
videos (approx dates, refined from the date cache) + the next token.
- frontend: ytLoadAllVideos streams batches after the fast initial 90 render,
folding each into the year-seasons live — backfills dates on the videos already
shown AND appends older ones, re-rendering per batch (episode grid only when the
viewed season changed). Replaces the old date-only re-poll (this dates AND
expands). Safety ceiling 2000; a 'Loading full history… N so far' indicator.
Validated live (MrBeast: 30/page, clean continuation, all dated). 101 tests green.
Channels enriched before InnerTube existed (partial coverage, e.g. CaseyNeistat
36, Good Mythical MORE 25) were locked behind the 24h coverage gate and would
never reach the full ~240-date catalog on their own. Tag each enrichment row
with the source ('innertube'|'fallback'); legacy rows (method NULL after the
additive migration) bypass the gate ONCE so they re-enrich and upgrade, then
settle under the normal window. Non-destructive: existing follows, wished videos
(24), and cached dates (1176) are untouched — only coverage refreshes on next
open/sweep. Migration is additive (method TEXT); regression test added.
A Beatport-style custom parser, but pointed at YouTube's own InnerTube browse API
— no key, no Java, no third-party proxies. Reads the channel 'Videos' tab's
lockupViewModel items (contentId + relative 'N ago' text → approximate date,
which is fine for year-seasons), paginating via continuation tokens.
Validated LIVE before wiring in: GMM/MrBeast/Veritasium each return 240 dated
videos in ~7s with correct year spreads (e.g. Veritasium 2017→2026), ~8 requests
per channel (light on rate limits). End-to-end enricher run cached 240 dates.
Enricher order is now: InnerTube (primary) → configured proxy (opt-in, only if
empty) → yt-dlp per-video (the fallback / basic method, for undated gaps + exact
dates). Pure parsing is fully unit-tested (relative-date conversion, lockup
filtering, continuation-token selection, pagination, guards). 182 video tests
green; additive — if InnerTube ever breaks, it returns {} and falls back, so
nothing breaks.
Live-tested the proxy against real channels — it does not work: Invidious public
APIs are 401/403 (auth-walled/disabled), and the one reachable Piped instance
returns EMPTY video lists for every channel (MrBeast/LTT/Veritasium all 0). Also
fixed a real bug: _harvest bailed on an empty first page instead of following the
nextpage token.
So the proxy is now OPT-IN via a youtube_proxy_instances setting (empty by
default → skipped entirely, no wasted dead calls). The default path is RSS +
the parallelized yt-dlp fallback, which actually works (your log: 9/36/25 dates
cached). Power users can point the setting at a live instance if they find one.
Verified the three engine workers (tmdb/tvdb/omdb) log per-item INFO under
video_enrichment.worker. Matched the youtube enricher to that exactly:
- INFO is now purely per-item ('Dated <ch> '<video>' -> <date>' / 'No date
for …') + one terse per-channel summary ('Dated N/M videos for <ch>'),
mirroring 'Matched … -> TMDB ID' / 'Synced full episode list…'.
- The 'YouTube dates:'-prefixed phase/diagnostic lines (enriching / proxy
returned / failures) demoted to DEBUG.
- Logger renamed video.youtube_enrichment -> video_enrichment.youtube (same
namespace as video_enrichment.worker).
- Per-item lines as it dates each video — 'Dated <channel> '<video>' -> <date>'
/ 'No date for …', mirroring the workers' 'Matched <kind> '<title>' -> TMDB
ID: …'. (Phase lines kept for context: enriching / proxy returned / done.)
Your log showed 'proxy returned 0' (public proxies dead) → the slow per-video
path. Date those recent uploads in a 3-worker thread pool instead of serially,
so a channel finishes in ~30s rather than 1-2 min; cached as each completes.
Addresses 'says running but I see nothing':
- Real logs: 'enriching <ch>…', 'proxy returned N', 'done — N proxy + N
per-video (X/Y dated)' so you can see exactly what it's doing.
- Proxy timeout 8s→4s so dead instances (most public ones) fail fast instead of
hanging ~40s before the yt-dlp fallback.
- Channel page now re-fetches a few times (25/60/110s) after load while videos
are still undated, re-rendering only when NEW year-seasons appear — so dates
the background enricher fills in pop in without a manual reload.
The enrichment daemon was starting during API tests (it uses the default DB +
network), touching a stray real DB and causing sqlite disk-IO flakiness. enqueue()
now no-ops when PYTEST_CURRENT_TEST is set; _enrich() is still tested directly
with a tmp DB. 176 video tests green.
Two gaps from real use:
- When all proxy instances are down (common), the fallback only dated WISHED
videos, leaving most as 'Earlier videos'. Now on proxy failure it flat-resolves
the channel's recent uploads and dates THOSE via yt-dlp (throttled, cached) —
so years populate fully even with no working proxy.
- A channel followed before the enricher existed was never queued ('nothing to
process'). /youtube/channels now sweeps: any followed channel not enriched
recently gets enqueued — so viewing the Channels tab (or the wishlist badge
refresh) picks up existing follows.
The detail page still reads cache+RSS (fast); the enricher fills the cache. 51
tests green.
- The standalone enricher now reports orb telemetry: stats()/pause()/resume();
/enrichment/youtube/status (+pause/resume) special-cased in the route. Added
the 4th header worker button (red ▶), WORKER_DEFS entry, and SERVICES wiring —
it's not on the socket so video-enrichment.js polls it every 3s. It animates
(idle → active orb + inbound pulses) while a followed channel's dates are being
fetched, like the TMDB/TVDB/OMDb orbs.
- Channel detail now uses the SAME standard watchlist button as shows/movies
(library-artist-watchlist-btn, ✓/＋ icon, 'In Watchlist'/'Watchlist') instead
of a bespoke 'Follow' — consistency. Still wired to the channel follow action.
176 backend tests green; JS balanced; music untouched.
Follow a channel → a background job fetches its FULL upload-date catalog so the
channel page's year-seasons populate fully, cached permanently (one-time per
channel, instant after).
- core/video/youtube.py: proxy_channel_dates() — no-key BULK dates via Piped/
Invidious instances (tries several, paginates); parse_proxy_dates handles both
shapes. The clean path the user wanted.
- core/video/youtube_enrichment.py: YoutubeDateEnricher daemon — enqueue(channel)
→ proxy bulk → cache; per-video yt-dlp only as a throttled fallback (cap 60,
0.4s) for wished videos when every proxy is down. Skips channels enriched in
the last 24h.
- db: youtube_channel_enrichment table + mark/check + wishlisted_video_ids_for_
channel. Enqueued from /youtube/follow and on opening a followed channel.
Scoped to FOLLOWED channels only (per request). 174 tests green; enricher imports
nothing from music.
Flat listing has no upload dates, so channels showed one 'All Videos' season.
Now real year-seasons, filled from cheap sources and cached so they grow:
- core: parse_rss_dates / channel_recent_dates — one public RSS GET dates the
~15 most-recent uploads (no yt-dlp, no bot risk).
- db: youtube_video_dates cache table + cache_video_dates / get_video_dates.
- /youtube/channel merges cached + RSS dates onto the flat videos (year-seasons)
and caches what it learns; /youtube/video caches each fetched date too — so
expanding/wishing videos progressively fills the catalog's years, instant on
repeat. Dateless tail groups as 'Earlier videos'. Missing-only toggle hidden
for channels. 84 db + 84 youtube/api tests green.
Full day-one coverage still needs the YouTube Data API's publishedAt (optional,
yt-dlp can't match it cheaply) — RSS + cache is the no-key best.
- The big one: an empty TMDB result no longer flashes 'No results' while the
(slower) YouTube channel search is still in flight — a 'YouTube channels ·
searching…' skeleton group (shimmer cards + spinner) shows instead, and the
empty state only appears once BOTH sources resolve with nothing. Users no
longer click away thinking nothing's happening.
- Channel avatars: fall back to the singular 'thumbnail' field when the flat
results omit the thumbnails list, so fewer cards are photoless (the rest keep
the clean initials placeholder). Reduced-motion respected.
A text search now also surfaces matching YouTube channels (not just the paste-a-
link path). search_channels() extracts the channels-filtered YouTube results
page (flat); API GET /youtube/search hydrates a 'following' flag. The search
page fires it in parallel with the TMDB search and appends a 'YouTube channels'
group when it returns (best-effort; never blocks/breaks TMDB results). Cards open
the in-app channel page. 82 youtube+api tests green; balanced; music untouched.
Flat channel listing can't return descriptions, so selecting a video showed 'No
description'. Now we do a non-flat single-video extract on demand — the way the
TV nebula lazy-loads guest stars:
- core: video_detail(id) / shape_video() — description, views, likes, duration,
tags, channel, webpage_url (full extract, yt-dlp injectable for tests).
- API: GET /youtube/video/<id> — returns it AND backfills the description onto
the wishlist row (set_wishlist_video_overview), so re-opening is instant.
- Wishlist info bar (youtube): on select, lazy-fetch → real description +
eyebrow (date · duration · views) + a 'Watch on YouTube' link; cached on the
episode object. 'Loading details…' while in flight.
Mirrors the episode lazy-load + art-backfill patterns. 73 youtube+api tests
green; brace/CSS balanced; music untouched.
- Resolver: capture banner_url + separate avatar (by thumbnail id), keeping
per-video duration/views for the detail hero.
- query_youtube_wishlist reshaped to the EXACT TV-nebula shape: channel = show,
upload YEAR = season (newest first), video = episode (newest=ep1 within a
year), carrying source='youtube' + youtube_id + per-video source_id. Surrogate
int returned as tmdb_id so the nebula's int keying just works.
- New API: GET /youtube/channel/<id> (full channel detail — meta + deeper
uploads + following + per-video wished flags) and POST /youtube/wishlist/add
(per-video wish). DB: youtube_video_wish_state, remove_one_video_from_wishlist.
- Tests updated for the nebula shape + banner + detail endpoints. 82 DB + 69
api/youtube tests green.
First slice of 'follow a YouTube channel as a show'. Pure, testable resolver:
- parse_channel_url() normalizes any channel reference (@handle, /channel/UC..,
/c/.., /user/.., bare handle, with/without scheme or tab suffix) to a
canonical /videos uploads URL, and rejects non-channels (watch/playlist/
shorts/home/non-youtube).
- shape_channel() maps yt-dlp's flat-extract dict to our shape (channel meta +
recent uploads), picking best-res thumbs, parsing sparse publish dates
(timestamp or upload_date → ISO, None when flat mode omits them), filtering
null/id-less entries.
- resolve_channel() ties them together via an injectable YoutubeDL factory.
yt-dlp only (already a pinned dep), extract_flat for cheap listing. 28 seam
tests, no network. Schema bridge + API + UI are the next slices.
Provider filter (#4):
- client.discover() + engine.discover_filter() take a TMDB provider id and pass
with_watch_providers + watch_region (engine._region) + flatrate. Browse gets a
streaming-service chip row (Netflix/Prime/Disney+/Max/Apple TV+/Hulu/Paramount+/
Peacock); the grid title reflects 'on <service>'.
Infinite scroll (#6):
- Grid paginates via an IntersectionObserver sentinel (600px lookahead) with a
bottom spinner; the Load more button stays only as a no-IO fallback.
Polish (#7):
- Hero keyboard nav (←/→ when Discover is the visible view, ignoring inputs and
while the trailer is open); focus-visible rings on chips/segments/cards/arrows.
Note: 'complete-the-franchise' rail (#5) needs a collection_id per movie, which
the schema doesn't store yet — deferred (would need an enrichment pass).
Tests: +1 (provider watch_region params); updated the discover_filter fake for
the new kwargs. Enrichment + API suites: 115 passed.
Performance:
- Batched ownership: new db.library_ids_for_tmdb() resolves a whole rail in one
query per kind. _stamp_owned (now also used by search + trending) groups by
kind, so a full Discover page drops from ~500 connections to a couple per rail.
Function/data:
- 'See all' on every rail opens it as a paged grid (Load more); the filter bar's
Browse routes through the same generic category grid with a back button + title.
- Personalized 'Because you like <Genre>' rails seeded from your most-owned
genres (new db.top_owned_genres + /discover/taste endpoint).
- 'Hide owned' toggle drops in-library titles from every rail/grid (CSS class,
instant).
Visual vibes:
- Ambient page-top color bleed that follows the current hero slide's hue.
- Rail edge-fade mask, gentle fade-in on load, per-title hue glow on card hover.
Tests: +4 (batched id map, server scoping, one-query-per-kind stamp, top genres).
Full video enrichment + database suites: 145 passed.
