fix(search): every related and live-search request takes a slot, and a failed one gives it back

A related list's cursor cost nothing, and a cursor is a free string: a replayed one read and
enriched without end. Every request now takes a slot of the user's daily cap — taken under a lock
before the work (`quota.claim_action`), so requests sent together cannot all pass the last free
one, and given back when the request fails outright (`quota.refund_action`). The live search's
scrape source takes its slots the same way.

A limit of 0 turns the feature off: a distinct 409 `related_disabled` / `search_disabled`, and
`/api/me` says `related_enabled` / `search_enabled` so the UI can leave it out.

A videos.list that fails no longer reads as an empty page: `ingest_candidates` raises, and the
search and the related list answer the refusal (the shared budget spent says "quota") instead of
"no results". The two routes' page loops are one (`_gather`).

`clear` deletes only what the caller found: a related list's rows carry no find, and any user
could name them.
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parent 7d45c4f59f
commit b04b51c909
14 changed files with 556 additions and 165 deletions
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@@ -79,6 +79,10 @@ def get_me(
# Which live-search source runs, so the search button can say what a search costs: "scrape"
# spends no API quota, "api" spends 100 units a page.
"search_source": sysconfig.get_str(db, "search_source"),
# Whether live search and related videos are on: an admin turns either off with a daily
# limit of 0, and the UI then leaves out what would only be refused.
"search_enabled": sysconfig.get_int(db, "search_daily_limit_per_user") > 0,
"related_enabled": sysconfig.get_int(db, "related_daily_limit_per_user") > 0,
"can_read": has_read_scope(user),
"can_write": has_write_scope(user),
"pending_invites": pending_invites,
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@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ cap — with what this user has already seen left out.
This is the HTTP side — the paging, the caps and the refusals; what a page of results leaves in the
catalog is `catalog/search`."""
from collections.abc import Callable
from typing import Literal
from fastapi import APIRouter, Depends, Path
@@ -34,6 +35,7 @@ from app.db import get_db
from app.models import User
from app.reader import queries as reader_queries
from app.youtube import related_scrape, search_scrape
from app.youtube.innertube import ScrapeError
from app.youtube.client import YouTubeClient, YouTubeError
from app.refusal import refused
from app.routes._common import youtube_refusal
@@ -43,6 +45,8 @@ router = APIRouter(prefix="/api/search", tags=["search"])
# search.list costs this many quota units per page.
SEARCH_COST = 100
# The scrape source reads at most this many pages for one search.
SEARCH_MAX_PAGES = 12
# A related list is filled to this many unseen videos, reading at most this many pages (about 20
# videos each, measured) — the ones the user has seen are left out, so a page alone can fall short.
@@ -52,6 +56,66 @@ RELATED_MAX_PAGES = 4
RELATED_REGIONS = {"topical": ("en", "US"), "hu": ("hu", "HU")}
def _gather(
db: Session,
yt: YouTubeClient,
user: User,
*,
cursor: str | None,
max_pages: int,
fetch: Callable[[str | None], dict],
candidates_of: Callable[[list[dict], list[str]], list[dict]],
enough: Callable[[list[str]], bool],
scrape_failed: Callable[[Exception], None],
ingest_failed: Callable[[int, int], None],
) -> tuple[list[str], str | None]:
"""Page through a YouTube list into the catalog: fetch a page, keep its `candidates_of`, ingest
them, and go on from its continuation until `enough` or `max_pages`. Returns the kept ids and
the cursor to read further from. A page that fails after earlier ones gathered something ends
the list with what it has; a first page that fails raises the 422 refusal.
422, not 502: this is a JSON endpoint, and the FE treats 502/503/504 as a gateway dropout
(auto-retry + "connection lost" banner — lib/api/core RETRIABLE_GATEWAY), which hides the real
message and repeats the work. A Data API failure is logged where it happened; the scraper's is
not, and its text does not ride the answer — so `scrape_failed` says it. An ingest (DB writes +
enrich) fails the same way, guarded for any exception so a write or shape failure is a 422 with
a message too, not a bare 500; `ingest_failed` logs it inside the `except`, with the trace."""
collected: list[str] = []
next_cursor = cursor
for _ in range(max_pages):
try:
page = fetch(next_cursor)
except (YouTubeError, ScrapeError) as exc:
if collected:
break # keep what earlier pages already gathered
if isinstance(exc, ScrapeError):
scrape_failed(exc)
raise youtube_refusal(exc) from exc
candidates = candidates_of(page["items"], collected)
try:
collected.extend(catalog_search.ingest_candidates(db, yt, user, candidates))
except Exception as exc: # any ingest failure, not just YouTubeError
db.rollback()
ingest_failed(len(candidates), len(collected))
if collected:
break
raise youtube_refusal(exc) from exc
next_cursor = page["next_page_token"]
if enough(collected) or not next_cursor:
break
return collected, next_cursor
def _cap_spent(feature: str, limit: int) -> None:
"""Say that a request was refused for the per-user daily cap. The 429 is in the request line
either way; which of the caps produced it is not, and they are answered by different things —
this one by tomorrow, the shared budget by the admin."""
log.info(
"a request was refused: the per-user daily cap is spent",
extra=logs.event(f"{feature}.refused", reason="daily_cap", limit=limit),
)
@router.get("/youtube")
def search_youtube(
q: str | None = None,
@@ -72,109 +136,103 @@ def search_youtube(
# Source: "scrape" (InnerTube, no API quota) or "api" (search.list, 100 units/page).
source = sysconfig.get_str(db, "search_source")
# Per-user daily cap applies to both sources (anti-abuse); with scrape it's the only guard
# since the search itself spends no quota.
# Every request takes a slot of the per-user daily cap, a cursor's too (anti-abuse); with
# scrape it's the only guard since the search itself spends no quota. A limit of 0 turns live
# search off on this instance — a refusal tomorrow will not change.
daily_limit = sysconfig.get_int(db, "search_daily_limit_per_user")
used = quota.actions_today(db, user.id, quota.QuotaAction.VIDEOS_SEARCH)
if used >= daily_limit:
# The 429 is in the request line either way; which of the two caps produced it is not, and
# they are answered by different things — this one by tomorrow, the other by the admin.
log.info(
"a live search was refused: the per-user daily cap is spent",
extra=logs.event("search.refused", reason="daily_cap", limit=daily_limit),
)
raise refused(429, "search_daily_limit", limit=daily_limit)
# The 100-unit budget pre-check only applies to the API source.
if source == "api" and not quota.can_spend(db, SEARCH_COST):
log.info(
"a live search was refused: the shared YouTube budget is spent",
extra=logs.event("search.refused", reason="shared_quota", cost=SEARCH_COST),
)
raise refused(429, "quota_spent")
if daily_limit <= 0:
raise refused(409, "search_disabled")
claimed: int | None = None
if source == "api":
# The one search.list call logs this action's event itself (record_usage, attributed
# below), so here the cap is only checked: a claimed slot would count it twice.
if quota.actions_today(db, user.id, quota.QuotaAction.VIDEOS_SEARCH) >= daily_limit:
_cap_spent("search", daily_limit)
raise refused(429, "search_daily_limit", limit=daily_limit)
# The 100-unit budget pre-check only applies to the API source.
if not quota.can_spend(db, SEARCH_COST):
log.info(
"a live search was refused: the shared YouTube budget is spent",
extra=logs.event("search.refused", reason="shared_quota", cost=SEARCH_COST),
)
raise refused(429, "quota_spent")
else:
# The check and the take are one step (`quota.claim_action`); a search that fails
# outright gives the slot back below.
claimed = quota.claim_action(user.id, quota.QuotaAction.VIDEOS_SEARCH, daily_limit)
if claimed is None:
_cap_spent("search", daily_limit)
raise refused(429, "search_daily_limit", limit=daily_limit)
# Channels this user has blocked are dropped before ingestion — never shown, never stored.
blocked = queries.blocked_ids(db, user)
collected: list[str] = []
next_cursor = cursor
MAX_PAGES = 12 # scrape safety bound
with YouTubeClient(db, user) as yt:
for _ in range(MAX_PAGES):
try:
if source == "api":
with quota.attribute(user.id, quota.QuotaAction.VIDEOS_SEARCH):
page = yt.search_videos(term, page_token=next_cursor)
else:
page = search_scrape.search(term, continuation=next_cursor)
except (YouTubeError, search_scrape.ScrapeError) as exc:
if collected:
break # keep what we already gathered
# 422, not 502: this is a JSON endpoint, and the FE treats 502/503/504 as a gateway
# dropout (auto-retry + "connection lost" banner — lib/api/core RETRIABLE_GATEWAY),
# which hides the real message and burns a second quota-costed search. Upstream failure
# on a JSON endpoint = 422 + message; reserve 5xx for the raw byte-proxies. (B-core-1)
# A Data API failure is logged where it happened; the scraper's is not, and its text
# no longer rides the answer — so it is said here.
if isinstance(exc, search_scrape.ScrapeError):
log.warning(
"the YouTube search scrape failed",
extra=logs.event("search.scrape_failed", error=str(exc)),
)
raise youtube_refusal(exc) from exc
def fetch(token: str | None) -> dict:
if source == "api":
with quota.attribute(user.id, quota.QuotaAction.VIDEOS_SEARCH):
return yt.search_videos(term, page_token=token)
return search_scrape.search(term, continuation=token)
# Drop currently-live/upcoming, channel-less, and blocked-channel results.
candidates = [
it
for it in page["items"]
if it["live_broadcast"] == "none"
and it["channel_id"]
and it["channel_id"] not in blocked
]
# Ingest (DB writes + enrich) runs outside the page-fetch try above; guard it too so a
# write/shape failure degrades to a 422 with a message on this JSON endpoint instead of a
# bare 500 hidden behind the FE's generic "search failed" (same rationale as B-core-1).
try:
collected.extend(catalog_search.ingest_candidates(db, yt, user, candidates))
except Exception as exc: # any ingest failure, not just YouTubeError
db.rollback()
# The term is NOT in this line. A search string is exactly what the privacy
# policy keeps out of the log unless the user turned Teljes/TRACE on for
# themselves, and `redact_text` does not cover it — it scrubs addresses and
# credential params, not what someone typed into the search box. What the
# ERROR line carries instead is the shape of the failure, which is what tells
# an ingest bug from an upstream one; the term follows at TRACE, and only
# under this user's own consent — not whenever the process runs at TRACE.
log.exception(
"live search ingest failed",
extra=logs.event(
"search.live.ingest_failed",
source=source,
candidates=len(candidates),
collected=len(collected),
),
)
if logs.consented_trace():
log.log(
logs.TRACE,
"the term the ingest failed on",
# log-pii-ok: only under this user's own Teljes consent
extra=logs.event("search.live.term", term=term),
)
if collected:
break # keep what earlier pages already gathered
raise youtube_refusal(exc) from exc
next_cursor = page["next_page_token"]
# The API source pages cost 100 units each — never auto-page; one page per request.
if source == "api" or len(collected) >= limit or not next_cursor:
break
def candidates_of(items: list[dict], _collected: list[str]) -> list[dict]:
# Drop currently-live/upcoming, channel-less, and blocked-channel results.
return [
it
for it in items
if it["live_broadcast"] == "none"
and it["channel_id"]
and it["channel_id"] not in blocked
]
# Count this as ONE per-user search against the daily cap. The scrape source spends no
# quota, so it never logs an event on its own; the API source already logged exactly one
# (via record_usage — it never auto-pages). Logging once here, after a search that produced
# at least one page (a total failure raises 502 above and never reaches this), keeps the cap
# counting user searches instead of internal continuation pages.
if source != "api":
quota.log_action(user.id, quota.QuotaAction.VIDEOS_SEARCH)
def scrape_failed(exc: Exception) -> None:
log.warning(
"the YouTube search scrape failed",
extra=logs.event("search.scrape_failed", error=str(exc)),
)
def ingest_failed(candidates: int, collected: int) -> None:
# The term is NOT in this line. A search string is exactly what the privacy policy keeps
# out of the log unless the user turned Teljes/TRACE on for themselves, and `redact_text`
# does not cover it — it scrubs addresses and credential params, not what someone typed
# into the search box. What the ERROR line carries instead is the shape of the failure,
# which is what tells an ingest bug from an upstream one; the term follows at TRACE, and
# only under this user's own consent — not whenever the process runs at TRACE.
log.exception(
"live search ingest failed",
extra=logs.event(
"search.live.ingest_failed",
source=source,
candidates=candidates,
collected=collected,
),
)
if logs.consented_trace():
log.log(
logs.TRACE,
"the term the ingest failed on",
# log-pii-ok: only under this user's own Teljes consent
extra=logs.event("search.live.term", term=term),
)
try:
with YouTubeClient(db, user) as yt:
collected, next_cursor = _gather(
db,
yt,
user,
cursor=cursor,
# The API source pages cost 100 units each — never auto-page; one page per request.
max_pages=1 if source == "api" else SEARCH_MAX_PAGES,
fetch=fetch,
candidates_of=candidates_of,
enough=lambda got: len(got) >= limit,
scrape_failed=scrape_failed,
ingest_failed=ingest_failed,
)
except Exception:
# A search that showed the user nothing does not count against them.
if claimed is not None:
quota.refund_action(claimed)
raise
ordered = collected[:limit]
@@ -228,62 +286,58 @@ def related_videos(
without the ones this user has watched or hidden here or in their Takeout history, and without
blocked channels. Pages on (`cursor`) until `RELATED_TARGET` are gathered; `next_cursor` reads
further. `region` picks the locale YouTube fills the list in (`RELATED_REGIONS`)."""
# Every request takes a slot, a cursor's too: each one scrapes pages and enriches what they
# hold, and a cursor is a free string — counting only first pages let a replayed cursor read
# without end. The check and the take are one step (`quota.claim_action`); a request that fails
# outright gives its slot back. A limit of 0 turns related videos off on this instance.
daily_limit = sysconfig.get_int(db, "related_daily_limit_per_user")
used = quota.actions_today(db, user.id, quota.QuotaAction.VIDEOS_RELATED)
if used >= daily_limit:
log.info(
"a related list was refused: the per-user daily cap is spent",
extra=logs.event("related.refused", reason="daily_cap", limit=daily_limit),
)
if daily_limit <= 0:
raise refused(409, "related_disabled")
claimed = quota.claim_action(user.id, quota.QuotaAction.VIDEOS_RELATED, daily_limit)
if claimed is None:
_cap_spent("related", daily_limit)
raise refused(429, "related_daily_limit", limit=daily_limit)
hl, gl = RELATED_REGIONS[region]
blocked = queries.blocked_ids(db, user)
collected: list[str] = []
next_cursor = cursor
with YouTubeClient(db, user) as yt:
for _ in range(RELATED_MAX_PAGES):
try:
page = related_scrape.related(video_id, continuation=next_cursor, hl=hl, gl=gl)
except related_scrape.ScrapeError as exc:
if collected:
break # keep what earlier pages already gathered
log.warning(
"the related-videos scrape failed",
extra=logs.event("related.scrape_failed", error=str(exc)),
)
raise youtube_refusal(exc) from exc
ids = [it["id"] for it in page["items"]]
drop = reader_queries.seen_by(db, user, ids) | set(collected) | {video_id}
candidates = [
it
for it in page["items"]
if it["id"] not in drop and it["channel_id"] not in blocked
]
# As in the search above: an ingest failure answers 422, not a bare 500.
try:
collected.extend(catalog_search.ingest_candidates(db, yt, user, candidates))
except Exception as exc: # any ingest failure, not just YouTubeError
db.rollback()
log.exception(
"a related list's ingest failed",
extra=logs.event(
"related.ingest_failed",
candidates=len(candidates),
collected=len(collected),
),
)
if collected:
break
raise youtube_refusal(exc) from exc
next_cursor = page["next_page_token"]
if len(collected) >= RELATED_TARGET or not next_cursor:
break
# One opened list is one event against the cap, however many pages it read; reading further
# (a cursor) is the same list.
if cursor is None:
quota.log_action(user.id, quota.QuotaAction.VIDEOS_RELATED)
def candidates_of(items: list[dict], collected: list[str]) -> list[dict]:
ids = [it["id"] for it in items]
drop = reader_queries.seen_by(db, user, ids) | set(collected) | {video_id}
return [it for it in items if it["id"] not in drop and it["channel_id"] not in blocked]
def scrape_failed(exc: Exception) -> None:
log.warning(
"the related-videos scrape failed",
extra=logs.event("related.scrape_failed", error=str(exc)),
)
def ingest_failed(candidates: int, collected: int) -> None:
log.exception(
"a related list's ingest failed",
extra=logs.event("related.ingest_failed", candidates=candidates, collected=collected),
)
try:
with YouTubeClient(db, user) as yt:
collected, next_cursor = _gather(
db,
yt,
user,
cursor=cursor,
max_pages=RELATED_MAX_PAGES,
fetch=lambda token: related_scrape.related(
video_id, continuation=token, hl=hl, gl=gl
),
candidates_of=candidates_of,
enough=lambda got: len(got) >= RELATED_TARGET,
scrape_failed=scrape_failed,
ingest_failed=ingest_failed,
)
except Exception:
quota.refund_action(claimed)
raise
rows = reader_queries.feed_rows_by_ids(db, user, collected)
# A related list mixes channels the user follows with ones they never met: each row says which.
followed = queries.followed_among(db, user, {r["channel_id"] for r in rows})