playlist cards on the watchlist tab now get the same hover cog → the per-channel
settings modal (custom show-name + quality override). the modal is kind-aware so
it reads 'Playlist settings' + 'the playlist's real name'.
no backend change needed: playlist videos are wishlisted with channel_id =
playlist_id, so the existing get/set_channel_settings + enqueue override lookup
already key off the playlist id. UI-only: cog on playlistCard + data-kind passed
to openChannelSettings(id, title, kind). test covers both cogs.
hover a channel on the watchlist Channels tab -> a settings cog appears (mirror
of the unfollow x) -> opens a self-contained modal:
- Show name (folder): overrides the $channel folder/show-name token; blank uses
the real channel name.
- 'Force a specific quality' toggle -> resolution/codec/container/60fps/HDR
override; off = use the global youtube quality from Settings.
VideoYoutube.openChannelSettings(id, title) builds the modal, loads via GET, saves
via POST /youtube/channel/<id>/settings. .vyt-cset-* CSS. string-contract test.
(note: 10 pre-existing soundcloud music-orchestrator test failures are unrelated
to this work — they fail on a clean HEAD too.)
The channel card's 'N videos' was actually the count of WISHED videos (0 until you
wish some) — so every channel read '0 videos'. It now shows the REMEMBERED catalog
size (from youtube_channel_videos, which fills in as a channel is enriched/opened),
falling back to 'Channel' when nothing's cached yet. Wished count is kept as a
separate wished_count field. Playlists likewise show their video count (cached when
the playlist is followed-with-videos or opened) instead of a static 'Playlist'.
list_watchlist_channels/playlists return the remembered count; the playlist detail +
follow endpoints cache the list so the count is known. 138 tests green.
The pasted-playlist chip used the YouTube 'Follow' toggle; swapped it for the
app-standard watchlist button (library-artist-watchlist-btn — same look/wording
used across video + music): ＋ Add to Watchlist ↔ ✓ In Watchlist. The search
toggle handler updates the icon/text spans + 'watching' class accordingly. No
global handler keys off that class, so reusing it is purely cosmetic.
- search: paste a playlist link → it resolves to a 'YouTube playlist' chip
(cover, owner, count) with Add-to-watchlist; clicking the chip opens it.
(isPlaylistRef + playlistCard + followPlaylist/unfollowPlaylist helpers.)
- routing: /video-detail/youtube/playlist/<PL…> deep-links like a channel
(string id); the open-detail event handles kind='playlist'.
- detail view: a FLAT list in the curator's order (no year-seasons, no season
nav / view toggle, no catalog streaming — it's a partial set). Billboard shows
'Playlist · N videos · owner'. Reuses the show-detail shell + the new
duration/views cards.
- watchlist: followed playlists sit beside channels in the Channels tab (rounded
square + a list badge), open on click, ✕ to unfollow.
Live-validated (Lex Fridman playlist resolves + renders in order). The 2 shell
test 'failures' are the pre-existing window.-assertion (no new globals added).
Two reports:
- 'Following · 0 videos added' toast: following from the channel page sent a
stub with no videos, so 0 were wished. Watchlisting a channel shouldn't bulk-
wish its whole catalog anyway (that conflates watchlist/track with wishlist/
acquire, unlike TV shows). follow() now sends only the channel fields and the
toast reads 'Added to watchlist'. Videos are wished explicitly via + Wish.
- '90 videos' in every channel header: that was just our fetch cap (limit=90),
not the real total — YouTube no longer exposes a trustworthy channel video
count (videoCountText reports a shelf count: 142 for Veritasium, 71 for MrBeast).
Dropped it; the accurate subscriber count already conveys the channel's scale.
Screenshot showed channel results with empty circles, not the initials chip —
i.e. an avatar URL was present but the image was failing to load. Two causes
addressed:
- The image proxy fetched googleusercontent/yt3 with NO User-Agent, which the
CDN 403s for some avatars → blank. Now sends a browser UA + Accept header.
- A failed avatar now swaps to the initials chip (onerror → outerHTML) instead
of hiding the img and leaving an empty circle. Also proxy protocol-relative +
deeper-subdomain YouTube image hosts. img-proxy tests green.
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.
The channel avatar (and video thumbnails) are yt3.googleusercontent.com /
i.ytimg.com URLs; hotlink/CORS policy could blank them (failed <img> hides on
the watchlist, falls to initials on the wishlist orb) — which is why the poster
'vanished' on both pages.
Extend the /api/video/img proxy allowlist to YouTube CDN hosts (ytimg.com /
ggpht.com / googleusercontent.com, https-only, still SSRF-safe) and route all
YouTube art through it: VideoYoutube.img() helper used by the watchlist channel
cards, search chip, the wishlist nebula orb/season/still art, and the channel
detail avatar/banner/thumbnails. 2 img-proxy tests green; JS balanced.
Two big pieces:
1) Wishlist YouTube tab now renders through the EXACT TV nebula (channel = show
orb, upload YEAR = season, video = episode) instead of a flat list. Made the
nebula source-aware: a youtube orb/season/label opens the in-app channel page
(not tmdb); season name shows the year; episode meta shows the upload date;
removes route through the youtube source_id endpoints (video / year / whole
channel); the info bar shows a selected video's description (no cast/no tmdb
fetch). Identical look — music wl-* + TMDB path untouched.
2) New in-app YouTube channel detail page (video-channel.js, sibling of
video-person.js) — opens via open-detail {kind:'channel'} from the watchlist
card, the wishlist orb/season, and deep links (/video-detail/youtube/channel/
<id>; router now accepts string ids + the new page). Banner hero, avatar,
subs/handle/video stats, description, Follow toggle, and a video grid where
each upload can be wished individually (duration + views + watch-on-YouTube).
Watchlist channel cards now open this page instead of bouncing to YouTube.
video-side.css .vc-*; JS brace-balanced; backend tests green.
Visual-first slice ties it together (window.VideoYoutube shared helper, all
.vyt-* CSS — music wl-* and the TMDB vwsh-* nebula untouched):
- Search: paste a channel link (or @handle) and instead of a title search you
get a YouTube Follow chip — avatar, title/handle, a strip of recent stills,
and a Follow button that follows + wishes recent uploads in one click.
- Wishlist: new YouTube tab. Channel = collapsible header (avatar, count,
open-on-YouTube, Unfollow), videos = a flat newest-first thumbnail feed with
per-video remove. Tab badge + sub-count wired.
- Watchlist: new Channels tab — followed channels as avatar cards with a wished-
video count and an unfollow control; count badge kept fresh across follows.
JS brace-balanced, CSS balanced, 66 youtube+API tests green.
