feat(reader): a Google Takeout export becomes watch state and Watch later

The YouTube API reads neither a user's watch history nor their Watch later list, so the Takeout
export is the only way in. `POST /api/takeout` takes one file of it (watch-history.json or
Watch later-videos.csv, told apart by content), keeps its videos in `takeout_items` and queues the
user's `takeout_import` run, whose outcome reaches their inbox.

The run marks watched the known videos the Shorts probe has cleared, at the Takeout time; a Short
is not marked, and a state the user set here (watched, hidden, or changed after that time) wins, by
the upsert's own condition. A video the catalog does not know yet waits with no outcome. Watch later
videos are fetched if unknown and appended oldest first.

An ad-hoc run can now ask for a completion notice (`run_ad_hoc(..., notify=True)`).
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@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ and the comfort shelf on Home. Only this unit writes them; another unit reads th
edge, or asks this unit's service."""
from datetime import datetime
from enum import StrEnum
from sqlalchemy import (
Boolean,
@@ -213,3 +214,51 @@ class ComfortPin(Base, TimestampMixin):
# 0-based shelf order. The shelf is short and hand-curated, so a dense integer the reorder
# endpoint rewrites wholesale beats a fractional index nobody would ever exercise here.
position: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer, default=0, server_default="0", nullable=False)
class TakeoutKind(StrEnum):
"""What a Google Takeout row says the user did with a video."""
WATCHED = "watched" # history/watch-history.json
WATCH_LATER = "watch_later" # playlists/Watch later-videos.csv
class TakeoutOutcome(StrEnum):
"""What the import did with a row; NULL = still waiting for its video to be known (and, for a
watched one, probed for Shorts)."""
WATCHED = "watched" # the video is marked watched at the Takeout time
KEPT = "kept" # the state the user set here (watched, hidden, or changed later) stays
SHORT = "short" # a Short: swiping one past is not watching it
ADDED = "added" # added to Watch later
PRESENT = "present" # already in Watch later
MISSING = "missing" # YouTube no longer has the video
class TakeoutItem(Base, TimestampMixin):
"""One video from a user's Google Takeout export: watched (with when) or in their YouTube Watch
later list (with when it was added). The rows are both the import job's input and its memory: a
video the catalog does not know yet waits here, with no outcome, until it enters the catalog.
The id is not a foreign key for that reason. The channel is kept for a later "channels you
watch but do not follow" list."""
__tablename__ = "takeout_items"
__table_args__ = (
UniqueConstraint("user_id", "kind", "video_id", name="uq_takeout_item"),
CheckConstraint("kind IN ('watched', 'watch_later')", name="ck_takeout_item_kind"),
# The waiting rows, by video: what a newly known video looks up.
Index(
"ix_takeout_items_waiting",
"video_id",
postgresql_where=text("outcome IS NULL"),
),
)
id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(primary_key=True)
user_id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="CASCADE"))
kind: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String(12))
video_id: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(String(16))
channel_id: Mapped[str | None] = mapped_column(String(32))
# Watched: the last time in the export; Watch later: when it was added.
at: Mapped[datetime] = mapped_column(DateTime(timezone=True))
outcome: Mapped[str | None] = mapped_column(String(12))
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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
"""Reader's reads: a user's labels, saved views, watch state and playlists, for the HTTP layer and
for the other units that ask about them.
"""Reader's reads: a user's labels, saved views, watch state, playlists and Takeout import, for the HTTP
layer and for the other units that ask about them.
Every read of a user's row goes through `userscope`, so "someone else's row" is the same answer as
a missing one. Reader reads Catalog's videos along its declared edge (a playlist's cover and
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ length, whether a video exists); another unit asks the questions at the end of t
than joining Reader's tables itself.
"""
from datetime import datetime
from sqlalchemy import ColumnElement, and_, func, or_, select
from sqlalchemy.orm import InstrumentedAttribute, Session, aliased
@@ -14,7 +16,16 @@ from app.collation import collated
from app.feedquery import feed_columns, serialize
from app.models import User
from app.catalog.models import Channel, Subscription, Video
from app.reader.models import ChannelTag, Playlist, PlaylistItem, SavedView, Tag, VideoState
from app.reader.models import (
ChannelTag,
Playlist,
PlaylistItem,
SavedView,
Tag,
TakeoutItem,
TakeoutKind,
VideoState,
)
from app.userscope import owned_by, owned_row
# --- catalog, read along the edge ------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -359,3 +370,55 @@ def user_tag_link(db: Session, user: User, channel_id: str, tag_id: int) -> Chan
owned_by(ChannelTag.user_id, user),
)
).scalar_one_or_none()
# --- Google Takeout --------------------------------------------------------------------------
def takeout_watched_ready(db: Session, user: User) -> list[tuple[int, str, datetime, bool]]:
"""The user's waiting "watched" rows whose video the catalog knows and has probed for Shorts:
(row id, video id, Takeout time, is Short)."""
return list(
db.execute(
select(TakeoutItem.id, TakeoutItem.video_id, TakeoutItem.at, Video.is_short)
.join(Video, Video.id == TakeoutItem.video_id)
.where(
owned_by(TakeoutItem.user_id, user),
TakeoutItem.kind == TakeoutKind.WATCHED,
TakeoutItem.outcome.is_(None),
Video.shorts_probed,
)
).tuples()
)
def takeout_waiting(db: Session, user: User, kind: TakeoutKind) -> list[tuple[int, str]]:
"""The user's rows of `kind` the import has not settled, oldest first: (row id, video id)."""
return list(
db.execute(
select(TakeoutItem.id, TakeoutItem.video_id)
.where(
owned_by(TakeoutItem.user_id, user),
TakeoutItem.kind == kind,
TakeoutItem.outcome.is_(None),
)
.order_by(TakeoutItem.at, TakeoutItem.id)
).tuples()
)
def known_video_ids(db: Session, ids: list[str]) -> set[str]:
"""Which of `ids` the catalog holds."""
if not ids:
return set()
return set(db.execute(select(Video.id).where(Video.id.in_(ids))).scalars())
def takeout_outcomes(db: Session, user: User) -> dict[tuple[str, str | None], int]:
"""How many of the user's rows each kind and outcome holds (None = waiting)."""
rows = db.execute(
select(TakeoutItem.kind, TakeoutItem.outcome, func.count())
.where(owned_by(TakeoutItem.user_id, user))
.group_by(TakeoutItem.kind, TakeoutItem.outcome)
).all()
return {(kind, outcome): n for kind, outcome, n in rows}
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@@ -15,7 +15,17 @@ from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
from app.models import User
from app.reader import queries
from app.reader.models import ChannelTag, Playlist, PlaylistItem, SavedView, Tag, VideoState
from app.reader.models import (
ChannelTag,
Playlist,
PlaylistItem,
SavedView,
Tag,
TakeoutItem,
TakeoutKind,
TakeoutOutcome,
VideoState,
)
from app.sync.playlists import lock_playlists, recompute_dirty
from app.userscope import owned_by
@@ -495,3 +505,113 @@ def detach_user_tag(db: Session, user: User, channel_id: str, tag_id: int) -> No
if row is not None:
db.delete(row)
db.flush()
# --- Google Takeout --------------------------------------------------------------------------
_TAKEOUT_BATCH = 1000
def stage_takeout(
db: Session, user: User, kind: TakeoutKind, rows: dict[str, tuple[datetime, str | None]]
) -> None:
"""Keep the videos of one Takeout file, `{video id: (time, channel id)}`, for the import job.
A second upload of the same export, or a newer one, adds what is new: a video already kept keeps
the later time, and a row the import has settled keeps its outcome."""
values = [
{"user_id": user.id, "kind": kind, "video_id": vid, "at": at, "channel_id": channel}
for vid, (at, channel) in rows.items()
]
for start in range(0, len(values), _TAKEOUT_BATCH):
stmt = pg_insert(TakeoutItem).values(values[start : start + _TAKEOUT_BATCH])
db.execute(
stmt.on_conflict_do_update(
constraint="uq_takeout_item",
set_={
"at": func.greatest(TakeoutItem.at, stmt.excluded.at),
"channel_id": func.coalesce(stmt.excluded.channel_id, TakeoutItem.channel_id),
},
)
)
db.flush()
def _settle(db: Session, ids: list[int], outcome: TakeoutOutcome) -> None:
for start in range(0, len(ids), _TAKEOUT_BATCH):
db.execute(
update(TakeoutItem)
.where(TakeoutItem.id.in_(ids[start : start + _TAKEOUT_BATCH]))
.values(outcome=outcome)
)
def apply_takeout_watched(db: Session, user: User) -> dict[str, int]:
"""Mark watched what the user watched on YouTube, for the videos the catalog knows and has probed
for Shorts; the rest wait. `watched_at` is the Takeout time. A Short is not marked (swiping one
past is not watching it), and a state the user set here wins: watched or hidden, or anything
changed after the Takeout time. The upsert's own condition is that rule, so a state set while
the import runs wins too."""
short: list[int] = []
todo: dict[str, tuple[int, datetime]] = {}
for row_id, video_id, at, is_short in queries.takeout_watched_ready(db, user):
if is_short:
short.append(row_id)
else:
todo[video_id] = (row_id, at)
marked: set[str] = set()
items = list(todo.items())
now = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
for start in range(0, len(items), _TAKEOUT_BATCH):
stmt = pg_insert(VideoState).values(
[
{"user_id": user.id, "video_id": vid, "status": "watched", "watched_at": at}
for vid, (_, at) in items[start : start + _TAKEOUT_BATCH]
]
)
marked.update(
db.execute(
stmt.on_conflict_do_update(
constraint="uq_user_video",
set_={
"status": "watched",
"watched_at": stmt.excluded.watched_at,
"updated_at": now,
},
where=(VideoState.status == "new")
& (VideoState.updated_at < stmt.excluded.watched_at),
).returning(VideoState.video_id)
).scalars()
)
kept = [row_id for vid, (row_id, _) in items if vid not in marked]
_settle(db, [todo[vid][0] for vid in marked], TakeoutOutcome.WATCHED)
_settle(db, kept, TakeoutOutcome.KEPT)
_settle(db, short, TakeoutOutcome.SHORT)
db.flush()
return {"watched": len(marked), "kept": len(kept), "shorts": len(short)}
def apply_takeout_watch_later(db: Session, user: User) -> dict[str, int]:
"""Put the videos of the user's YouTube Watch later list into theirs here, oldest first, after
what it already holds. Called once the catalog has fetched what it could: a video still unknown
is one YouTube no longer has."""
waiting = queries.takeout_waiting(db, user, TakeoutKind.WATCH_LATER)
if not waiting:
return {}
known = queries.known_video_ids(db, [vid for _, vid in waiting])
pl = watch_later(db, user)
done: dict[TakeoutOutcome, list[int]] = {o: [] for o in TakeoutOutcome}
for row_id, vid in waiting:
if vid not in known:
done[TakeoutOutcome.MISSING].append(row_id)
elif add_item(db, pl, vid, mark_dirty=False):
done[TakeoutOutcome.ADDED].append(row_id)
else:
done[TakeoutOutcome.PRESENT].append(row_id)
for outcome, ids in done.items():
_settle(db, ids, outcome)
db.flush()
return {
"watch_later_added": len(done[TakeoutOutcome.ADDED]),
"watch_later_present": len(done[TakeoutOutcome.PRESENT]),
"watch_later_missing": len(done[TakeoutOutcome.MISSING]),
}
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"""A Google Takeout export, imported: what the user watched on YouTube becomes watched here, and their
YouTube Watch later list joins theirs. The YouTube API reads neither of them, so the export is the
only way in.
Two files of the export are read, each uploaded on its own: `history/watch-history.json` and
`playlists/Watch later-videos.csv`. Their videos are kept (`TakeoutItem`) and the import job applies
what it can; a video the catalog does not know yet waits for it.
The format, measured on a real export (2026-10): the history is a JSON list, one entry per view,
newest first. A view of a video has a `titleUrl` with `watch?v=<id>` (on www.youtube.com or
music.youtube.com) and a `time`, with or without milliseconds. The channel is the first `subtitles`
entry's url, absent for a video since removed. An ad is an entry whose `details` say "From Google
Ads". The title is in the account's language, so nothing here reads it. A Short is a plain
`watch?v=` view, told apart only once the catalog has probed the video. The Watch later csv is a
header row (in the account's language) and `<id>,<ISO time added>` rows.
"""
import csv
import io
import json
import re
import threading
from collections.abc import Iterator
from contextlib import contextmanager
from dataclasses import dataclass, field
from datetime import datetime
from app import quota
from app.bodylimit import TAKEOUT_MAX_BYTES
from app.db import SessionLocal
from app.models import User
from app.reader import queries, service
from app.reader.models import TakeoutKind
from app.sync.runner import get_service_user
from app.sync.videos import ensure_videos
from app.youtube.client import YouTubeClient
# The largest file the upload takes (its edge cap and the route's own are one number).
MAX_BYTES = TAKEOUT_MAX_BYTES
_VIDEO_ID = re.compile(r"^[A-Za-z0-9_-]{11}$")
_WATCH_URL = re.compile(
r"^https?://(?:www\.|music\.|m\.)?youtube\.com/watch\?v=([A-Za-z0-9_-]{11})"
)
_CHANNEL_URL = re.compile(r"/channel/(UC[A-Za-z0-9_-]{22})")
class TakeoutError(ValueError):
"""The file is not one the import reads; `reason` is the client's word for why."""
def __init__(self, reason: str):
super().__init__(reason)
self.reason = reason
@dataclass
class Parsed:
"""One file's videos, `{video id: (time, channel id)}`, and what it left out, counted."""
kind: TakeoutKind
videos: dict[str, tuple[datetime, str | None]] = field(default_factory=dict)
entries: int = 0
ads: int = 0
other: int = 0 # not a view of a video (a post, a story) or a video with no link left
malformed: int = 0
def _time(raw: object) -> datetime | None:
if not isinstance(raw, str):
return None
try:
at = datetime.fromisoformat(raw.replace("Z", "+00:00"))
# silent-ok: the row is counted as malformed, and the count is in the upload's answer.
except ValueError:
return None
return at if at.tzinfo is not None else None
def _keep(parsed: Parsed, vid: str, at: datetime, channel: str | None) -> None:
old = parsed.videos.get(vid)
if old is None or at > old[0]:
parsed.videos[vid] = (at, channel or (old[1] if old else None))
def _history(data: list) -> Parsed:
parsed = Parsed(TakeoutKind.WATCHED)
for entry in data:
parsed.entries += 1
if not isinstance(entry, dict):
parsed.malformed += 1
continue
details = entry.get("details")
if isinstance(details, list) and any(
isinstance(d, dict) and d.get("name") == "From Google Ads" for d in details
):
parsed.ads += 1
continue
url = entry.get("titleUrl")
match = _WATCH_URL.match(url) if isinstance(url, str) else None
if match is None:
parsed.other += 1
continue
at = _time(entry.get("time"))
if at is None:
parsed.malformed += 1
continue
channel = None
subtitles = entry.get("subtitles")
if isinstance(subtitles, list) and subtitles and isinstance(subtitles[0], dict):
found = _CHANNEL_URL.search(str(subtitles[0].get("url", "")))
channel = found.group(1) if found else None
_keep(parsed, match.group(1), at, channel)
return parsed
def _watch_later(text: str) -> Parsed:
parsed = Parsed(TakeoutKind.WATCH_LATER)
rows = [row for row in csv.reader(io.StringIO(text)) if any(cell.strip() for cell in row)]
if not rows or len(rows[0]) < 2:
raise TakeoutError("not_takeout")
if not _VIDEO_ID.match(rows[0][0].strip()):
rows = rows[1:] # the header, in the account's language
for row in rows:
parsed.entries += 1
vid = row[0].strip() if row else ""
at = _time(row[1].strip()) if len(row) > 1 else None
if not _VIDEO_ID.match(vid) or at is None:
parsed.malformed += 1
continue
_keep(parsed, vid, at, None)
return parsed
def parse(body: bytes) -> Parsed:
"""Read an uploaded Takeout file: the watch history (JSON) or the Watch later list (csv), told
apart by their content, not their name. Raises `TakeoutError` for anything else, and for a file
with nothing to import in it."""
try:
text = body.decode("utf-8-sig")
except UnicodeDecodeError:
raise TakeoutError("not_takeout") from None
stripped = text.lstrip()
if stripped.startswith("["):
try:
data = json.loads(stripped)
except json.JSONDecodeError:
raise TakeoutError("not_takeout") from None
if not isinstance(data, list):
raise TakeoutError("not_takeout")
parsed = _history(data)
elif stripped.startswith(("{", "<")):
# Another JSON file of the export, or the history's HTML variant.
raise TakeoutError("not_takeout")
else:
parsed = _watch_later(stripped)
if not parsed.videos:
raise TakeoutError("no_videos")
return parsed
# One import per user at a time: a second file uploaded while the first one's run is under way
# starts a run of its own (the first one's id has left the scheduler), and the two would settle the
# same rows. The second waits, then takes what the first left. One API process runs the scheduler,
# so a lock in this module holds it (as the channel backfill's does).
_user_locks: dict[int, threading.Lock] = {}
_user_locks_guard = threading.Lock()
@contextmanager
def _one_import(user_id: int) -> Iterator[None]:
with _user_locks_guard:
lock = _user_locks.setdefault(user_id, threading.Lock())
with lock:
yield
def run_import(user_id: int) -> dict:
"""The import job: apply what the user's kept Takeout rows can say now, as one recorded run.
The watched part commits before the Watch later part asks YouTube for the videos the catalog
lacks, so a YouTube failure there loses nothing already marked. Returns the counts."""
with _one_import(user_id), SessionLocal() as db:
user = db.get(User, user_id)
if user is None:
return {"skipped": "no user"}
result = service.apply_takeout_watched(db, user)
db.commit()
waiting = queries.takeout_waiting(db, user, TakeoutKind.WATCH_LATER)
if waiting:
fetcher = get_service_user(db)
if fetcher is not None:
with quota.attribute(user_id, quota.QuotaAction.VIDEOS_LOOKUP):
with YouTubeClient(db, fetcher) as yt:
ensure_videos(db, yt, [vid for _, vid in waiting])
result |= service.apply_takeout_watch_later(db, user)
db.commit()
outcomes = queries.takeout_outcomes(db, user)
result["waiting"] = outcomes.get((TakeoutKind.WATCHED, None), 0)
if outcomes.get((TakeoutKind.WATCH_LATER, None)):
result["watch_later_waiting"] = outcomes[(TakeoutKind.WATCH_LATER, None)]
return result