Two Sonarr-parity features.
1) Per-episode live tracking. "Grab season" was headless (only a button label
changed); episode rows had a status span that was never populated. Now every
episode ROW shows its own live state — Searching → Downloading % → Downloaded
/ Failed — via epTrack() polling /downloads/status?id, matching the inline
movie tracker. Grab season lights all target rows at once; manual + per-source
auto grabs also light their row; reopening the modal resumes tracking in-flight
episodes (resumeEpisodeTracking via /downloads/active + search_ctx match).
Season batch grabs through the same payload as a manual grab (_pickAndGrab →
sendGrab(buildGrabPayload)).
2) Auto-wishlist airing episodes. New daily automation (video_add_airing_episodes):
reads the calendar for episodes airing TODAY for followed shows, skips owned
ones, adds the rest to the wishlist (idempotent). Handler uses injected seams
(calendar read + wishlist write) so it's unit-tested without a DB/server.
Registered + action block + seeded as a daily system automation (01:00),
owned_by=video.
End-to-end import for video grabs, mirroring the music side's rigor and the
Radarr/Sonarr standard, fully isolated in core/video + api/video.
- Importer: parse release -> ffprobe-verify (true resolution, reject corrupt/
samples) -> templated rename into Movie (Year)/ + Show/Season NN/ -> copy or
move, carry subtitles, upgrade-replace a worse copy.
- Library Organization settings: editable $token path templates + toggles
(transfer mode, verify, replace, carry subs, save artwork, write NFO,
download subtitles + langs). Stored in video.db; matches the music File
Organization section's look.
- Sidecar writer: movie.nfo / tvshow.nfo + full artwork set (poster, fanart,
clearlogo, season posters) from on-demand TMDB detail, and external .srt from
OpenSubtitles. Owned re-grabs resolve their library tmdb_id; tmdb_full_detail
bypasses the owned->library redirect so they enrich too.
- Import page: surfaces import_failed downloads, resolve by hand (library-first
-> TMDB picker -> force-place) or dismiss; fires a library refresh on place.
- "Grab whole season": episode-level batch (reuses searchInto + _autoPick).
- Brutalist redesign of the download modal sources + result cards.
All new logic has seam-level tests (pure parsers/planners + injected I/O);
sidecars/subtitles are best-effort and never break an import.
Reworked the whole sources/results area for a more premium, Netflix-y feel.
Results — flat divider list → real CARDS: a bold cinematic quality badge (resolution
over source), the release name as the hero, the meta as a row of crisp PILLS (codec /
audio / HDR / repack / group) plus a clean availability stat, then size · verdict · Get
grouped on the right. Cards have depth, a hover-lift, an accent edge on accepted
releases, and the auto/grabbed pick lights up with an accent ring + glow.
Sources — toned the full per-source colour wash down to a sophisticated dark-glass row
with the brand colour as an ACCENT only (left-edge light that extends on hover + the
glassy icon tile), so it reads calm and designed instead of busy.
All functional hooks preserved (data-vdl-card/grab, .vdl-res-main tracker dock, status
states, auto-pick). node --check + CSS balance clean; tracking/auto wiring tests green.
Auto: replaced 'Manual all' + 'Auto all' (which fired auto on every source = up to
one download PER source = duplicate copies) with a single header 'Auto' button. It
searches every source, waits for them all to settle, compares the accepted+grabbable
hits across ALL sources by quality-profile score (tie-break on availability), and
grabs exactly ONE winner — the chosen row gets the auto ring + live tracker. Per-source
Manual/Auto buttons are unchanged.
Bug fix: viewing a YouTube channel populated the playlist section in the SHARED
show-detail DOM; opening a real movie/show afterward still showed those playlists,
because ytResetPlaylists() used the kind-scoped q() (pointing at the wrong root on a
movie load) and wasn't called on normal loads. Now it targets the show subpage
directly and runs from resetExtras() (every detail load), so stale playlists are
always cleared.
node --check clean; 20 wiring/regression tests green; all video-only.
Two fixes from feedback:
1) Reopening the download modal now KNOWS a download is already running. The view
gets a persistent active-download banner at the top that looks the title up by
media identity (/downloads/status?media_id=) on every open and polls while active
— progress bar + release name + 'Track on Downloads ↗'. Suppressed while a result
card is already tracking inline (fresh-grab case) so there's never a double
indicator.
2) Result cards completely redesigned (third time's the charm): dropped the rounded
cards + big resolution tile for a flat, release-list layout (Radarr/Prowlarr
style) — hairline dividers, a small colour quality tag + source word on the left,
the RELEASE NAME as the hero line, dense inline meta (codec · audio · HDR ·
uploader · group) under it, then size · a compact ✓/✕ verdict flag · a compact
accent 'Get' pill. The selected/auto/grabbed row tints + rings in place, and the
live tracker still docks under the chosen row.
All video-only. node --check clean; 16 tracking/auto wiring tests + the status
endpoint test green.
After a grab (manual or Auto) the user now SEES what happened and can follow it:
- The chosen result card is spotlighted (Auto scrolls it into view) and grows a live
tracker: a progress bar that follows the real download + a 'Track on Downloads ↗'
button that closes the modal and jumps to the Downloads page. Polls the new
GET /api/video/downloads/status?id= until the download reaches a terminal state.
- A movie's detail page shows a live download chip (progress bar + %) for any in-flight
download of that title; clicking it jumps to Downloads. Looks up by media identity
via /downloads/status?media_id=&media_source=, polls while active, clears on
navigate-away. (video-detail.js)
- Result CARDS redesigned (the part you didn't like): a column card with a colour
resolution badge, a green 'accepted' edge, cleaner hierarchy, and the grab button is
now an accent 'Get' pill matching the source Auto button language.
Plumbing: new lightweight /downloads/status endpoint (by id, or by media for detail
pages); soulsync:video-navigate event in video-side.js to reach a top-level page from
anywhere; VideoGet.close exported so the tracker can dismiss the modal. All video-only.
Tests: status endpoint (by id + by media + null cases) in test_video_api.py;
tracking/detail/nav wiring in test_video_download_tracking.py. node --check clean;
isolation guards green.
The sources half felt weak next to the animated top half (quality chips + glowing
verdict), and the dark-text lightning Auto button looked off. Redesigned the whole
sources block:
- Buttons are now a cohesive pair: Manual = quiet ghost (outline), Auto = hero —
brand-filled gradient, white text w/ shadow for legibility on bright brands, a
soft continuous brand glow (vdlAutoGlow, --glow set per element) + a sheen sweep
and a sparkle twinkle on hover. Swapped the harsh ⚡ for a clean monochrome ✦
that inherits the button colour. 'Manual all'/'Auto all' header buttons speak the
same language (ghost vs accent hero).
- Source rows: richer brand card — bigger glassy icon tile w/ inner highlight +
halo, a stronger brand gradient, an inset top highlight, a glowing left brand
edge (::before), and the status is now a brand-tinted pill (was bare dot+text)
with state colours (scanning/done/none). Scan bar moved to ::after.
- Section labels get a small accent tick so both halves read 'designed'.
- Reduced-motion + mobile (full-width stacked buttons) handled.
Icon+label split into spans for finer control. node --check clean; 7 tests
updated/green.
Each source in the movie/YouTube download view had one 'Search' button (manual —
you pick a release). Adds a second 'Auto' button beside it that runs the SAME
search and then auto-grabs the best release for your quality profile; renamed the
pair to 'Manual' / 'Auto' for clarity (+ a matching 'Auto all' beside 'Manual all').
How 'best' is chosen: the backend already returns hits ranked best-first
(accepted → score → availability — see test_downloads_search_endpoint_ranks_and_filters),
so Auto just waits for the search to settle, then takes the first accepted hit
that has an uploader and grabs it. The chosen release card gets a ring + the row
shows Auto-grabbing → Sent, so the pick is transparent.
- searchInto/_pollSearch gain an onDone callback (fires when results settle); the
immediate (mock) path fires it too.
- doGrab refactored into shared buildGrabPayload + sendGrab so the manual button
and _autoPick send an identical /grab request (incl. the auto-retry candidate pool).
- searchInto now drops stale _rows on start so an empty Auto search can't grab a
prior search's hit.
Soulseek-grab-only for now (same as the manual button); non-soulseek sources say
'no release met your profile' until that grab path lands. TV show view (separate
onShowClick, still stub searches) untouched. 7 wiring tests; node --check clean.
When a grabbed release fails (transfer error / peer-cancel / never lands), the engine
now retries instead of giving up — the music-style depth:
- Grab stores the OTHER accepted results as a retry pool + the search context (schema
v16: candidates / search_ctx / tried_queries / tried_files / attempts).
- core/video/retry.py (pure, tested): plan_retry() → try the next-best candidate; when
the pool is dry, next_query() generates an ALTERNATE query (movie: drop the year; TV:
numbering variants) to re-search; budget MAX_ATTEMPTS=6. merge_candidates dedupes
against already-tried releases.
- Monitor: on failure, _fail_or_retry hops to the next candidate inline; if none, flips
the row to a new 'searching' state and a background requery thread re-searches the
alternate query, evaluates against the profile, and starts the best fresh hit — or
marks failed once truly exhausted. 'searching' rows are owned by their thread.
- Page: 'Searching' status (Trying another release…) + a 'Nx' attempt badge.
16 tests (retry engine + candidate-retry transition); ruff clean on touched files.
The poll capped at 32s but slskd results trickle in over ~50s (the music side waits
the whole search_timeout), so slow searches like 'Project Hail Mary' returned 'none'
before results landed. Now:
- /search/start returns poll_ms (slskd search_timeout + 8s); the UI polls that long
(capped 80s), streaming results as they arrive, stopping early only once results
clearly plateau (≥20s + stable) or hit 25.
- /search/poll returns total_files; when 0 video releases but slskd DID return files,
the panel says 'returned N files, but none are video — likely audio/other for this
title' instead of a blank 'none' (Soulseek is audio-heavy; many movie titles are
audiobooks there). slskd_search.poll_search() returns {hits, total_files}.
Tests green, ruff + balance clean.
Grabs now carry the movie's identity so the Downloads cards are rich, not anonymous:
- video_downloads gains media_id / media_source / year / poster_url (schema v15 +
migration); grab stores them (passed from the get-modal → download view → grab).
- Cards show the POSTER in the art tile (emoji fallback), 'Title (Year)', a quality
chip (1080p · BluRay · X265), and an ↗ Open button that jumps to the movie/show
detail page (dispatches soulsync:video-open-detail). Cancel/retry unchanged.
16 tests green, ruff + balance clean.
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.
Phase 3 — the UX:
- Grab button now actually grabs (Soulseek results only — they carry the slskd
username/filename): POSTs /downloads/grab with the result + search context, shows
✓ on success, toasts 'Sent to Downloads', fires a refresh event. Endpoint returns
size_bytes for the payload.
- New Downloads PAGE (video-downloads-page.js, .vdpg-*): every grab lands here.
Polls /downloads/active while open and shows live status — type icon (🎬/📺/▶️),
title + release, a pulsing 'Downloading' pill with a shimmering progress bar, then
'Completed' with the file's library destination (→ /media/movies/…), or 'Failed'
with the reason. Clear-finished button, empty state, staggered entrance, vibes.
Reduced-motion honored. JS/CSS/HTML balance clean (verified w/ a real tokenizer).
- Result meta now adapts to the source: Soulseek shows '👤 uploader · N peers · N
slots' (real slskd availability); torrent/usenet keep '▲ seeders' (still mock).
- Results header shows a '● live' badge for real slskd searches vs an amber 'demo
data' badge for the still-mocked sources — so it's never ambiguous again.
- slskd errors ('not configured', network) surface as a clear ⚠ line in the panel.
JS/CSS balance clean.
- Each source now has its OWN results panel under its row (movie + episode), and
the search passes the source through — so Soulseek / Torrent / Usenet each show
their own distinct hits instead of one shared identical list.
- Card redesign for readability: a big colour-coded RESOLUTION tile (4K gold /
1080p accent / 720p blue / SD) anchors each row; a plain-English quality summary
leads (e.g. 'BluRay · X265 · DTS-HD' + an HDR/REPACK tag); the raw release name is
demoted to a single muted truncated line; size · seeders · group sit below; the
verdict pill (✓ Meets profile / ✕ reason) and ⤓ Grab stay on the right.
Dropped the old break-all mono title + badge-row layout. JS/CSS balance clean.
Wires the four scopes to the /downloads/search pipeline and renders beautiful,
profile-aware result cards (mock indexer for now):
- Movie: per-source ⌕ / Search all → movie scope.
- Episode: expand an episode → per-source ⌕ → episode scope (its own results panel).
- Season: the season ⌕ → SEASON-PACK scope, results under the season header.
- Whole show: top-bar 'Search whole show' → complete-SERIES-pack scope.
Each card shows the full release name (mono), colour-coded quality badges
(resolution/source/codec/HDR/audio/repack), size, seeders, and a verdict — green
'✓ Meets profile' or a dimmed '✕ <reason>' (e.g. not in your enabled tiers, wrong
season, over size cap). Accepted hits sort first and carry a ⤓ Grab button (stub).
Spinner while searching; staggered card entrance; reduced-motion honoured.
Replaced the faux-scan stubs. JS/CSS balance clean.
Shows now get their own download experience instead of the movie layout. Clicking
Download on a show WIDENS the modal (~680→940px, animated) and renders a tree:
- Quality target chips + a show summary (N seasons · M episodes · X in library ·
Y missing) + a master select-all + a primary 'Search N selected'.
- Season cards (collapsible) with a tri-state season checkbox, 'N eps · M missing',
and a per-season search button (auto-opens the season to reveal the scan).
- Episode rows: checkbox, E# · title, In library/Missing/Upcoming badge. Default
selection = everything you're MISSING (owned shown but unticked, upcoming locked).
- Each episode expands inline to its branded per-source search strip (Soulseek/
Torrent/Usenet), so you can grab one episode à la carte; or batch via the season/
bulk buttons. Searches are the same faux-scan stub — no backend yet.
Library shows use shipped episodes; tmdb shows prefetch seasons via the existing
/tmdb/show/<id>/season/<n> endpoint. get-modal stashes the detail + tvId and routes
shows to VideoDownload.render({kind:'show',…}); movie/youtube paths unchanged.
Vibey: staggered entrance, branded scan bars, smooth collapse. Reduced-motion honored.
JS + CSS balance clean.
- Removed the 'Automatic searching arrives…' footnote.
- Sources rows are no longer tame: each carries its own brand colour (Soulseek
blue / Torrent amber / Usenet purple / YouTube red) driving a tinted gradient
row, a left accent rail, a glowing brand icon TILE, and an in-brand hover lift
with a coloured shadow. A live pulsing status DOT sits by the label, the Search
button is brand-tinted, and the scan bar/'Searching…' state now glow in the
source's own colour. Reduced-motion still honoured.
CSS + JS balance clean.
Pure motion polish on the in-place download view:
- Staggered entrance — the view's blocks rise in sequence; target chips pop in
with a spring + a one-shot sheen sweep; source rows slide in cascaded.
- Quality chips glow on hover in the modal's vibe hue; source rows lift/shift
with a playful emoji wiggle.
- Owned verdict badge pops in (spring); 'pending' breathes while checking; the
'Eligible for upgrade' badge gets a soft amber glow pulse.
- 'Search all' button pulses to draw the eye + a sheen sweep on hover.
- Stub search is now a satisfying faux-SCAN: the row shows 'Searching…' with
animated dots + a moving scan bar, then resolves to 'coming soon' (staggered
across rows on 'search all', so it ripples). Still no backend.
- Honors prefers-reduced-motion (keeps layout, drops the motion).
CSS + JS balance clean.
Per feedback — one modal with a view transition beats close+open. Clicking
'Download' now swaps the get-modal's detail body for the download view (quality
target + owned verdict + per-source search) with a '← Back to details' button;
the selection-only sections (episodes/next/follow) and the Full page/Download/Add
buttons collapse, the all-related movie bits stay.
- video-download-modal.js → video-download-view.js: now a reusable RENDERER,
VideoDownload.render(container, opts), not its own overlay. A future YouTube
trigger can render the same view into its own container (still universal).
- get-modal: enterDownload/exitDownload toggle the in-place view; stashes the
owned file on modalState to feed the verdict. Removed the separate .vdl
overlay/hero/close CSS; added .vgm-dl/.vgm-back + [hidden] guards; chips now
pick up the modal's --vgm-h vibe hue.
Pure front-end; balance + div + css brace checks clean.
