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.
Storage was already per-server (movies/shows UNIQUE(server_source, server_id),
episodes via per-server show_id, prune_missing scoped) — but reads returned
every server's rows, so a Jellyfin scan would show up alongside Plex.
Mirror the music standard: scope reads to the active video server
(resolve_video_server). query_library, calendar_upcoming, dashboard_stats and
library_id_for_tmdb take a server_source; the dashboard/library/calendar
endpoints pass it. server_source=None keeps "all servers" (enrichment processes
every server; tests unchanged). No schema change, no data migration — existing
Plex data is untouched and simply hidden while Jellyfin is the active server.
Regression tests: same title on both servers stays two rows; scoped reads only
return the active server's data; deep-scan prune never touches the other server.
A new isolated Calendar page (/api/video/calendar) — every upcoming episode for
your owned shows across a real 7-day week (today first), as art cards sorted by
air time with a per-cell breathing colour glow.
- Air times: enrich shows with TVDB airsTime (new shows.airs_time column +
migration); cells show + sort by time, streaming (untimed/00:00) = "Anytime".
One-time background backfill re-queues already-matched shows for the time.
- Click an episode → styled modal (show backdrop hero, episode still/synopsis,
air date+time, owned badge, genres, "about the show"), with an explicit
"Open full show page" action instead of navigating on click.
- Isolated: reads only video_library.db, writes nothing to the music side.
Give the video side its OWN server connection — pre-filled from music but stored
separately in video.db, fully isolated (video never writes music config/state).
- Effective config helpers (video_plex_config / video_jellyfin_config): video's
own creds when set, else inherited read-only from music. resolve_video_server +
_build_source + watch-link/poster/dashboard all use these (own db threaded in).
- Server Connection UI mirrors music's server picker (toggle = select + configure),
scoped to Plex/Jellyfin, at the bottom of the Connections tab.
- Jellyfin: independent client built from video's creds; explicit USER picker like
music (list users → that user's libraries); honors the pick, admin fallback.
- Honest connection diagnostics (reachable vs 401 vs no-users) instead of a vague
"auth failed".
- Auto-save on change with toasts; the shared Save button is intercepted on the
video side so it saves video settings (and can't fire a music save).
- Enrichment status now PUSHES over the socket like music (no browser polling /
access-log flood); config save only rebuilds workers when an API key changed.
- Seam tests for effective-config inheritance/override + isolation guard.
Two real coupling bugs, fixed:
- resolve_video_server still fell back to the music active server when no explicit
video pick was set, so changing the music server changed video. Removed: video
now uses ONLY an explicit video pick or the configured server(s) (Plex default
when both). Changing the music server never changes video.
- The shared settings page could persist active_media_server from the video side.
Guarded saveSettings itself (not just the debounced auto-save) so it NEVER runs
while data-side=video — video saves only via /api/video/*.
Test: video does not follow the music active server. One-way isolation, both ways.
The video side now uses a configured Plex/Jellyfin on its own (resolve_video_
server), not config_manager.get_active_media_server(). So a music-only server
(Navidrome/SoulSync) never applies to video, and 'Navidrome for music + Plex for
video' works. Order: explicit video pick (video_server setting) → music-active if
video-capable → the single configured one → Plex if both → None. Seam tests cover
each case incl. the mixed setup.
A saved 'Where-to-watch region' picker in Settings → Detail Pages (19 common
regions, default US). The engine reads it for the providers in extras +
tmdb_detail (region in the cache key), and the detail page labels the section
'Where to Watch · <region>' so you know which market you're seeing.
Click any episode (owned or missing) to expand it: a larger still, full overview,
and the episode's guest stars (clickable to the person page). Lazy-loaded per
episode from TMDB by the show's tmdb_id and cached. New client.episode_detail +
engine.episode_extra + /api/video/episode/<show_tmdb>/<season>/<episode>.
The inline dict cache was a latent bug: no lock (the engine singleton is hit by
concurrent Flask + worker threads) and a wholesale-clear cliff at 256 (nuked hot
entries). Extracted a thread-safe TTL+LRU TTLCache into an importable core/ module
with seam tests (expiry via injected clock, LRU-not-wholesale eviction, a
concurrency stress test). Engine now uses it; search is cached too (60s, ownership
re-stamped fresh). Deliberately NOT persisted to disk — durable data already lives
in video.db; that tier would be over-engineering for a self-hosted app.
The owned-item extras and preview detail payloads were already cached (30-min
TTL); person_detail, tmdb_season, and trending were not — so person pages and
lazy preview seasons re-hit TMDB each view. Now cached too (trending 1h). Library
ownership is re-annotated fresh on each call so 'In Library' badges stay current
while the expensive TMDB fetch is reused. Tests for person + season caching.
extras() now returns a featured review (author, rating, snippet, date); the detail
page shows it in a card with a clamped body + Read more/less. In-app (no external
link).
person() now returns profile images (thumb+full) and also_known_as. The person
page shows an 'Also known as' line and a Photos rail that opens the shared
fullscreen lightbox (arrows/Esc/counter).
One TMDB call (append_to_response) now also returns: image gallery (backdrops +
posters, thumb+full), all YouTube videos (ordered trailer→teaser→clip→…), keyword
tags, facts (budget/revenue/language/country), and the FULL cast (tv via
aggregate_credits with per-actor episode counts). Shared by item_extras (owned)
and full_detail/tmdb_detail (preview).
Caching: the engine memoizes the live TMDB extras + preview payloads (30-min TTL)
so re-opening a title is instant instead of re-hitting TMDB. Tests added.
- Sort dropdown: Newest / Oldest / Most popular.
- Department filter (Acting / Directing / Writing / …) for multi-hyphenates —
only appears when a person has 2+ departments. Composes with the existing
kind + ownership filters; every chip shows a CONTEXTUAL count (what you'd get
if you clicked it, given the other active filters).
- Age in the hero meta ('47 years old', or lifespan + 'aged N' for the deceased).
- Backend: each person credit now carries its department (cast=Acting,
crew=its TMDB department). Seam test added. 249 video-suite tests pass.
'Request limit reached!' is the free-tier daily quota (1,000/day), not a bad key
— so the worker now idles ~30 min and auto-resumes instead of pausing for good.
A library bigger than the daily cap just spreads its ratings across days on its
own. A genuinely invalid/unactivated key still hard-pauses until fixed. Cooldown
reads as paused in the UI (+ a 'cooldown' flag and note). Item is never burned to
synced, so nothing is lost.
OMDb returns a JSON body even on 401, so surface its actual Error: 'Invalid API
key!' (nudges the user to click OMDb's activation email) vs 'Request limit
reached!' (free-tier daily quota). The worker's pause note uses the same message.
The log flood you saw was the OMDb worker hitting a 401 (invalid key) on every
owned title: it logged a full traceback per item AND marked each one
ratings_synced=1 — which would've stopped them ever retrying once the key was
fixed. Root-cause fixes:
- OMDBClient.ratings raises a distinct OMDbAuthError on 401 / 'Invalid API key!'
(vs a transient error vs a genuine no-data 200).
- Worker: on an auth error it PAUSES (transient, not persisted) with a reason
note + one warning, instead of churning the whole library; the item is NOT
marked synced. Transient errors no longer burn items either — they back off and
pause after 3 in a row. Only a genuine 'no data' marks an item synced. Warnings
are concise (no per-item tracebacks). get_stats exposes the pause 'note'.
- Fixing the key auto-recovers: saving a new/changed OMDb key re-queues every
still-unrated title (resets the wrongly-burned ones), and the engine rebuild
un-pauses the worker.
Seam tests: bad-key pause-without-burn, transient keep-item, ratings() raises on
401, key-change re-queues unrated. 227 video-suite tests pass.
The 'Where to Watch' section is now actionable:
- For an OWNED title it leads with a 'Play on Plex/Jellyfin' tile (green, play
glyph) that deep-links straight to the item on your server — Plex via the
app.plex.tv web app (machineIdentifier fetched once + cached), Jellyfin via its
web detail page. Built in engine.item_extras from the row's server_source +
server_id and the shared media-server config (same source poster.py uses).
- Streaming providers (TMDB/JustWatch) are now clickable → the where-to-watch
page, with a hover lift.
Owned-only: preview (tmdb) items have no library row so they get no server tile.
Seam tests cover the Jellyfin + Plex link building and the unowned no-link case.
240 video-suite tests pass.
Smart back (mirrors music's artist-detail): the top-left back button now
remembers where you actually came from, many layers deep. It keeps an origin
stack ({page} or {detail title}) and stamps each history entry with its layer
depth, so:
- the label is dynamic — '← Back to Search' / '← Back to The Bear' / '← Back to
<person>' — instead of a hardcoded 'Library'/'Back';
- backing out of the first layer returns to the page you started from (Search,
Watchlist, wherever), not always the Library;
- browser Back and our button both unwind the chain one layer at a time, in sync.
Fixes: search → person → back → movie used to mislabel as 'Library' and dump you
in the library.
Next level:
- Search isn't a blank box when idle — a 'Trending this week' rail (TMDB
trending, owned/preview annotated). Returns when you clear the query.
- Person page gets a 'Known For' hero rail (top titles by popularity) above a
full filmography now sorted chronologically (newest first).
Backend: TMDBClient.trending + engine.trending (+library annotation), route
/api/video/trending. Isolated; 237 video-suite tests pass.
Search any movie / show / person (TMDB multi-search) entirely in-app. Results
that you already own link straight to the library detail; the rest open a
TMDB-backed 'preview' detail that reuses the exact same Netflix billboard UI
(direct image URLs, nothing owned/enriched). Everything resolves back into
SoulSync — no external links on un-owned titles.
- Search page (video-search.js): debounced /api/video/search, grouped
movies/shows/people cards (reuses .library-artist-card) with owned/preview
ribbons. People open the person page.
- Source-agnostic detail (video-detail.js): loads from /api/video/detail
(library) or /api/video/tmdb (preview); art helpers pick proxy vs direct URLs;
tmdb shows lazy-load episodes per season; owned-via-tmdb-url auto-redirects to
the library detail.
- 'More Like This' now drills in-app (tmdb detail, redirects if owned); cast/crew
link to a new in-app person page (bio + filmography, each credit owned/preview).
Library credits now carry tmdb_id so owned-item cast is clickable too.
- Backend: TMDBClient.search/full_detail/person (+ shared _parse_extras);
engine.search/tmdb_detail/tmdb_season/person_detail; db.library_id_for_tmdb;
routes /search, /tmdb/<kind>/<id>, /tmdb/show/<id>/season/<n>, /person/<id>.
Isolated (one-way): video-only files, no music imports, music shell untouched.
Seam tests: search/full_detail parsing, tmdb_detail assemble+redirect, search +
person library annotation, library_id_for_tmdb, route registration, shell/JS
isolation. 234 video-suite tests pass.
OMDb now has the same setup as TMDB/TVDB: a yellow dashboard orb (★ glyph) that
spins/idles in the worker-orb animation, an entry in Manage Workers (Ratings
coverage cards, pause/resume, retry, search), and a BACKGROUND ratings pass.
- Worker 'ratings mode' (is_ratings): instead of a match queue it pulls
ratings_next() (library items with an imdb_id and ratings_synced=0), fetches
IMDb/RT/Metacritic, applies + marks synced. So the whole library gets ratings,
not just titles you open (schema v7: ratings_synced).
- enrichment_breakdown/unmatched/retry get an 'omdb' branch (coverage =
ratings-filled, not matched). build_clients includes omdb; the lazy on-view
backfill uses the omdb worker's client.
- Dashboard orb + Manage Workers entry (★ glyph fallback where there's no logo),
yellow accent.
Seam tests: omdb worker rates the queue (ratings mode), ratings breakdown.
Next-level: real critic/audience scores beyond the TMDB star. OMDb (free key,
keyed by the imdb_id we already capture) returns IMDb / RT / Metacritic.
- OMDBClient (ratings + test); built as a non-worker 'ratings_client' on the
engine. _backfill_ratings runs in both lazy detail refreshes (overwrites, since
ratings are dynamic). schema v6: imdb_rating / rt_rating / metacritic on
movies + shows; show/movie payloads return them.
- Billboard renders branded rating badges (IMDb yellow, RT tomato/splat by
fresh/rotten, Metacritic green/yellow/red by score). Lazy refresh also triggers
when an imdb_id exists but ratings are missing.
- OMDb API-key frame in Settings (parity with TMDB/TVDB) + config GET/POST +
/enrichment/omdb/test.
Seam tests: OMDb parse, engine ratings backfill, apply_ratings + payload, config
includes omdb.
So library cards show real owned/total (e.g. 8/10) WITHOUT opening each show. When
the TMDB worker's match queue is clear, it pulls the full season/episode list for
one already-matched-but-unsynced show per loop (episode_sync_next), inserting
missing episodes + marking it synced. Over time every library show gets its full
list; the on-view lazy refresh still makes the one you open instant. TMDB-only;
counts toward the worker's pending so it shows busy (not 'Complete') while syncing,
and never loops on a single failing show.
Seam tests: episode_sync_next selection + pending count, worker syncs a pre-feature
matched show to the full list.
Reload bug: music's router boots first, rewrites an unknown /video-detail/... URL
to /dashboard, and my init read the already-changed URL (no restore) AND dispatched
open-detail before video-detail.js was listening (empty page + stray back button).
Fix: capture the path at SCRIPT-EVAL time (before music boots) and DEFER the
restore to a macrotask so every DOMContentLoaded handler is registered and music's
initial routing has run — then re-assert the real URL. Reload/deep-link now restore
the exact item.
Missing-episodes bug: the full-episode-list cascade only ran via the lazy refresh,
which was gated on ART being missing — so a show that already had posters/logo
never pulled its episode list (stayed owned-only). Added shows.episodes_synced
(schema v5): the worker sets it after a full cascade; show_detail returns it; the
lazy refresh now triggers when NOT synced, so owned + missing episodes populate.
Previously the episodes table held only what the server has (all 'Owned'), so the
detail page never showed what you're missing. Now the metadata provider defines
the full series structure and the server marks ownership:
- TMDB returns the full season list (poster optional) + full episode fields
(title/air date/runtime/still/rating) per season.
- backfill_episodes UPSERTs: owned episodes keep has_file=1; episodes the server
lacks are inserted as MISSING (has_file=0); fully-missing seasons get created.
The cascade now iterates every TMDB season, not just the ones on the server.
- The scan prune only removes SERVER-originated rows (server_id set) that vanished,
so enrichment-added missing episodes/seasons are never pruned on re-scan.
Season coverage (X / Y) is now meaningful, and the episode list shows Owned +
Missing together. Seam tests: missing-episode insert, fully-missing season,
prune preserves missing.