The import asks YouTube how long the watched videos of the candidate
channels are (five or more watched, none the user follows, blocked, put
out or owns), keeps the length on the Takeout row and names the channels
that make the list: five videos of five minutes or more. The shorts job
asks what an import could not. A channel's counted videos come in as an
exploration's when its list is opened, ready to play; a channel can be put
out of the list and back.
Channel, Subscription, Video, SearchFind, ExploredChannel and BlockedChannel (and LIVE_OR_UPCOMING)
leave app/models.py for app/catalog/models.py; app.tables registers them. The User↔Subscription
relationship names its other side as a type only. No schema change.
Feed, playlists, saved views, tags and the Home pins do no database work in their routes any more:
reads go through reader/queries (and feedquery for a feed page, its counts and facets), writes
through reader/service and discover/pins, which flush; the handlers commit. Reader is fenced below
its HTTP layer too: its owner filters go through userscope, and the catalog's jobs ask Reader
instead of joining its tables (the auto-tagger's system tags, the cleanup jobs' keep rule, the
maintenance notice). A playlist sync's catalog ingest moves to sync/videos.
The code cited its plan instead of saying why: `E28 review J4`, `(R6 S3b)`, `S1 justified…`,
`deep-review round 5`. That plan lives in the private ops repo, so for every reader of this one the
citation was noise, and a sentence whose subject was the plan step ("round 2 showed…") hid its
lesson behind an id. Each one is gone and the "why" kept: a bare citation is deleted, a sentence
carrying a lesson is reworded around it ("a later attempt showed…").
Measured (`scripts/audit_metrics.py`, product code): 652 lines in 270 files carried an epic code by
the definition the next commit holds (507 / 241 by the old, two-digit-only one) -> 0. Across all
code, tests, scripts and configs: ~1100 epic-code lines plus ~320 sprint/round ids.
Behaviour unchanged, checked mechanically: every changed .py file has the same AST once docstrings
are blanked; css/sh/toml/yml/json files are identical once comments are stripped; the only
non-comment changes in TS/JS are test titles, one description string in a contract table, and five
ESLint messages, whose text is all the gates snapshot diff holds. Not touched: Markdown (docs and
the changelog keep their history), Alembic migrations, TV episode notation (`S2 · E5`), DESIGN.md
ids (`C1`, `B4`, `S3h`), tracker ids (`SEC-16`, `DX-17`).
One stale claim fixed on the way: test_hls_reaper's docstring said the player checkpoints "every
10 s whether or not it is playing", which plex/stream.py calls wrong; it now says what the code does.
CLAUDE.md's canonical table names SQLAlchemy 2.0 select() and an inline
datetime.now(timezone.utc), and both had drifted: five db.query(...) calls
remained in routes/auth.py and routes/me.py (seven before the demo went),
and four private now helpers stood in sync/videos.py, utils.py (imported
as _now by explore and maintenance), scheduler.py (_now_iso) and the e2e
seed. All are the canonical form now.
Ruff cannot ban a method call on an instance or a function by name, so
tests/test_canonical_patterns.py reads every app module's AST and fails on
a .query(...) call or a now/_now/now_utc helper — seen red on a planted file.
YouTube answers the uploads list of a channel with no uploads as
playlistNotFound. The recent and deep backfills raised on it, so the channel
was never stamped and was picked again, charged a quota unit and logged an
ERROR on every run. Both now read it as an empty last page, as explore already
does; any other failure still raises.
114 exception handlers neither logged nor re-raised. The defect was never that
they are silent — plenty of them should be — it is that their silence said
nothing, so nobody could tell a decision from an oversight. Each one has now been
read. 44 got a line; the other 70 carry `# silent-ok: <why>`.
What the silent ones had been hiding, in the cases that got a line:
- A failed ffprobe sent every HDR file down the 8-bit pipeline, so playback
degraded to a software transcode with nothing saying why; a failed audio probe
collapsed a multi-audio file to one track and the player showed no language
picker; a failed first-PTS probe left subtitles seconds out of sync.
- A subtitle sidecar that existed but would not parse made a PARTIAL track read as
complete, permanently — the viewer loses every cue past the cached window.
- An unreadable crop/trim/cut-list in an edit spec was dropped, so the clip came
out uncropped, untrimmed, or shorter than the one the user built.
- A dropped `max_height` downloaded at best quality against an explicit cap.
- A failed videos.list enrich made every candidate undroppable-from-judgement and
therefore dropped: a working search rendered as "no results".
- An unusable password hash answered as "wrong password", locking the owner out
and telling them they mistyped; a rotated TOKEN_ENCRYPTION_KEY turned every
stored token into "not connected".
- A stored admin setting that would not coerce fell back to the env default while
the settings page went on showing the saved value.
- A one-off InnerTube config failure pinned the whole process to the hard-coded
fallback key, and searches return nothing when that goes stale.
- The HLS sweep reported 0 swept — like a clean run — when it could not list its
own root, leaving every crashed session's segments on disk forever.
Four of them are counted rather than logged per item (dropped cues, dropped cut
list segments, unreclaimed GC files) and reported once per call, because the
alternative is one line per cue over a whole subtitle track.
ruff gains S110 and BLE001. Every blind `except Exception` that remains carries
`# noqa: BLE001 — <why>`, which is the point: catching everything is sometimes
right, and always worth a sentence. plex/sync.py's three best-effort backfill
catches now keep the traceback — a blind catch over a batch that fetches AND
writes could be Plex, the database or our own bug, and `%s` of the exception told
them apart badly. main.py's boot-time log-level read likewise.
logs.event's `code` is positional-only now: `event("x", code=...)` was a TypeError,
and `code` is exactly the word a caller reaches for when the thing that failed has
one of its own.
tests/test_swallowed_exceptions.py is the wider rule ruff cannot see: a handler
that neither logs nor re-raises must say why. Both cases mutation-checked — a
marker removed and a log line removed each fail it, naming the handler.
The scrape source exposes no publish date, so its search stub carried
published_at=None. Migration 0068 (PERF-15, E2/0.68.0) made
videos.published_at NOT NULL, so insert_stubs raised IntegrityError —
outside the route's page-fetch try/except — and the whole
/api/search/youtube request 500'd ("YouTube search failed."). Every
scrape search (the default source) had been broken since 0.68.0.
- routes/search._ingest_candidates: stub published_at falls back to
now() (mirrors stub_from_playlist_item), satisfying the constraint.
- sync.videos.apply_video_details: prefer the enrich snippet's real
date whenever present, so the now() placeholder is corrected instead
of becoming the video's permanent date (the guard only filled a NULL,
which a non-null placeholder no longer is). Never clobbers a real
date with now().
Regression tests (DB lane): dateless scrape stub ingests and takes the
real enrich date; an enrich miss keeps a non-null placeholder, unkept.
A nullable published_at forced the feed keyset into a non-sargable
`... OR published_at IS NULL` disjunction: with the 0067 index the planner still
applied it as a FILTER and scanned from the top of the index, so a deep `newest`
page discarded every earlier row (O(depth)).
- Migration 0068: backfill any NULLs (0 in prod) -> SET NOT NULL + DEFAULT now().
- Model: Video.published_at is now non-Optional, nullable=False, server_default now().
- feedquery: the `pub` key is nullable=False, and keyset_predicate is rebuilt
recursively so a non-nullable leading key gets a non-strict range bound
(`published_at <= v`) as an AND conjunct — an index range Cond instead of a
filter. Nullable keys keep the NULL-aware OR form (a `<= v` bound would drop
their NULL group). Equivalence proven by test_feed_keyset (all 13 sorts,
cursor-walk == unpaged).
- Ingest paths (stub_from_playlist_item, apply_video_details, playlists sync)
fall back to now() so they never write an explicit NULL.
Measured on the prod-sized localdev reseed at a ~50k-deep cursor (0067 index +
prod planner): OLD `Rows Removed by Filter: 50001`, 25,687 buffers / 9.16 ms ->
NEW `Index Cond: published_at <= v`, 1 row filtered, 47 buffers / 0.037 ms. SET
NOT NULL on 257k rows: 0.32s. Gate green (334 pytest).
Addresses the code-review findings on the immediate full-history change:
- Extract quota.backfill_reserve_reached(): the remaining/reserve compare was
open-coded at seven sites (recent/deep/immediate backfill, explore, rolling
revalidation, and the new per-page guard). It reads in its OWN short-lived
session (like record_usage/log_action), so a per-page guard no longer holds
the caller's transaction open across the YouTube fetch that follows — the
400-page immediate run no longer pins a pooled connection idle-in-transaction
through each network round-trip. Migrated all call sites; dropped the now-dead
sysconfig imports in channels.py and maintenance.py.
- Simplify the deep-backfill loop: channel.backfill_done = not page_token (done
is False on entry) plus one break, replacing the doubled `if not page_token`.
- Tests patch the backfill_reserve_reached seam directly instead of mocking
remaining_today internals, removing the fragile dead-value budget iterator.
Full backend suite green; ruff clean.
The user-triggered "get full history" (backfill_channel_now) capped at
max_pages=60 = 3000 videos. A channel just over that (BBC Earth: 3403
uploads = 69 pages) stopped one page short, so its tail dribbled in over
the scheduler's paced 10-minute ticks (250 videos/tick) and the button
spinner looked stuck for ~18 minutes with no visible progress.
- Raise the immediate cap to max_pages=400 (20 000 videos) so any
realistic channel completes in the single background run.
- Make a high cap safe: backfill_channel_deep now re-checks the shared
quota before each page and yields at the backfill reserve (previously
quota was checked once by the caller before the whole run), and commits
the advanced cursor after every page so a restart resumes instead of
re-fetching — and re-charging quota for — pages already stored.
- Channel page: while loading, the button shows the live stored/total
count and a tooltip explaining the tail finishes in the background, so a
very large channel's paced remainder reads as progress, not a hang.
Adds deep-backfill paging tests (per-page cursor commit + resume, and the
per-page quota yield).
Layering cleanup, no behaviour change (ruff clean backend+scripts, pytest 193):
- Invert the scheduler->routes dependency: reset_demo_state (+ its demo-seed
helpers) move from routes/admin.py to a new service module app/demo.py.
Both routes/admin.py and scheduler.py now import it from app.demo, so the
scheduler no longer reaches into the routes layer — its lazy import (the
routes<->scheduler cycle workaround) is gone, hoisted to a top-level import.
- Publish the private symbols that were imported across module boundaries (the
underscore convention was lying): feed._serialize -> serialize,
feed._to_tsquery_str -> to_tsquery_str, videos._insert_stubs -> insert_stubs,
videos._stub_from_playlist_item -> stub_from_playlist_item,
worker._uploader_url -> uploader_url, plex._shared._item_or_404 ->
item_or_404. Scoped renames — the 5 other route modules keep their own truly
private _serialize helpers.
- _release_asset moves from routes/downloads.py to app/downloads/service.py as
the public release_asset (asset bookkeeping is a service concern); the routes
call it via service.release_asset.
- the volume keys no longer defer to a scrollable card while in fullscreen
(mirrored into a ref: the keydown handler is bound once and state would be stale)
- the debounced volume flush writes straight to storage; persisting inside a
setState updater is not guaranteed to run for an unmounting component
- the HLS sweep also matches the original {key}_{start} directory naming, which
is what the oldest leftovers on disk actually use
- run_rss_poll returns {new, failed} so an egress outage stops rendering as
"ok — 0" in the scheduler card and the audit log; /api/sync/rss reports it too
- drop the unused poll_rss_channel (it silently gained a new exception)
- _Breaker.run is generic, so a call site keeps its item-id type
- test helper instead of the generator-throw idiom
- feed.py _filtered_query: drop the dead 2nd return element (status_expr was
used only internally for WHERE filters; all 3 callers discarded it as _status).
Now returns (query, rank_expr); fixed the stale docstring.
- youtube/client.py: extract _iter_playlist_items() — iter_my_playlist_video_ids
and iter_playlist_items_with_ids were near-identical playlistItems paging loops
(jscpd [173-187]≈[267-281]); both now map over the shared generator.
- sync/videos.py: extract _apply_video_batch() with an on_missing callback —
enrich_pending and refresh_live shared the fetch-map-apply skeleton, differing
only in the query and how they retire rows YouTube omits.
- models.py: add LIVE_OR_UPCOMING = ("live","upcoming"); replace the 4 duplicated
copies (feed.HIDDEN_LIVE, search._LIVE_HIDDEN, videos.py + channels.py inline).
Behavior-neutral. ruff clean on touched files, localdev boots, feed/worker healthy.
_insert_stubs previously stored the raw title, so a brand-new video showed its unnormalized
title until enrichment caught up. Normalize (and stash original_title) at insert as well, so
every video-title write path is covered: stub insert, enrichment, live search, and the download
worker. Every newly imported feed video is normalized from the first insert.
Noisy YouTube titles are cleaned for display + storage, raw kept in videos.original_title:
- app/titles.normalize_title: strip emoji/symbols (keep accents), remove trailing SEO hashtag
clusters (keep numeric #3 episode markers), context-aware de-shout (mostly-ALL-CAPS titles ->
Title Case with an acronym whitelist + function-word lowercasing; otherwise only long all-caps
words), collapse repeated punctuation
- applied at enrichment (sync/videos.py) and in the download worker (ad-hoc yt-dlp titles);
catalog downloads inherit the normalized title automatically
- migration 0039: add original_title, preserve raw, rewrite title (generated search_vector
regenerates); reversible via original_title
Backfill on localdev: 122115/273417 titles normalized in ~2 min. Verified in the feed + on
real messy samples (emoji/de-shout/hashtags), accents + acronyms (PS5/AI/USA/PC) preserved.
Makes the local search behave more like YouTube's — finding videos by the
uploader's own keywords or the query that surfaced them, not only words in the
title. A DB-generated, weighted search_vector (migration 0032) replaces the
title-only FTS index:
- keywords: the creator's snippet.tags (free — already in the snippet we fetch),
stored on enrich.
- search_terms: distinct live-search queries that surfaced the video (across all
users), appended by the search route — folds YouTube's relevance into local
search (a video YT returned for a query becomes findable by it even without a
title match), the user's own idea.
- description (truncated) for broad recall on the existing catalog.
Weighted title(A) > keywords+queries(B) > description(C) so ts_rank keeps title
hits on top. A plain GIN index on the generated column guarantees index use (no
expression/param matching). Verified on localdev: recall 146->213 for one query;
7 'eurovision' hits via the document but not the title; index scan confirmed.
Register 8 more keys in the sysconfig registry (quota daily budget + backfill
reserve, recent-backfill window, shorts-probe params, enrich/autotag batch sizes)
and route their reads through the DB-override-or-env resolver at every call site
(quota.py, sync/runner.py, sync/videos.py, sync/autotag.py, sync/maintenance.py,
routes/scheduler.py). All read sites already had a db session in scope. Reads are
read-through (no cache), matching app.state; admin can tune them live, no redeploy.
Every background job now reports progress, so the dashboard can show a live
bar for any run (not only enrich/backfill/shorts/maintenance): rss_poll and
subscriptions (runner), autotag, and playlist_sync gained progress.report
calls over their loops.
RSS polling now fetches the channel feeds concurrently (16 workers) instead
of one-at-a-time — a slow/unreachable feed no longer blocks the rest, cutting
a full poll of the catalogue from minutes to seconds. Feed fetches are
network-bound and run in the pool; DB inserts stay on the session's thread
(SQLAlchemy sessions aren't thread-safe), applied as each fetch completes.
Split the DB-write half of poll_rss_channel into apply_rss_feed so the fetch
and apply phases compose cleanly.
Add per-job "Run now" buttons and a "Start all now" button to the admin Scheduler
dashboard (admin-gated endpoints). Triggers run the job in a background thread
independent of its interval, refusing a concurrent run (409). While running, the
long jobs (maintenance, enrich, backfill, shorts) report live progress through a
decoupled contextvar sink, shown as a progress bar on the job row via the existing
4s poll. A manually-triggered run posts a completion notification to the triggering
admin's inbox (scheduled runs stay silent to avoid spam); the inbox renders the
"scheduler" type trilingually from type+data. While here, give the maintenance job
its missing dashboard label/description in all three languages.
Add a daily maintenance/validation job that detects videos which can't be played
anywhere and retires them safely. Two phases: re-check already-flagged videos
(recover if available again, else hard-delete once the grace period elapses,
cascading to states/playlist items), and a rolling re-validation of the
least-recently-checked currently-available videos that flags newly-unplayable
ones (hidden from the feed immediately via unavailable_since).
Detection is ~free: a video missing from the videos.list response is
deleted-or-private; an `upcoming` premiere >2 days past its scheduled start that
never went live is abandoned. A still-live broadcast is kept (legit 24/7 stream).
Enrichment now also fetches part=status to populate the status columns. Grace is
7 days for removed videos, none for abandoned. Before deleting, affected users
get one batched notification (never per-video). Interval is admin-tunable via the
Scheduler dashboard; batch size and grace are config. Quota-attributed to the
system and bounded by the same backfill reserve as the other jobs.
enrich_pending only touches enriched_at IS NULL, so a video first seen
while live was stamped live + duration-null and never revisited — staying
'live' with no duration forever after the broadcast ended. Add refresh_live
(run after each enrich pass) that re-fetches anything still live/upcoming,
plus just-ended was_live videos that haven't got their duration yet, until
they settle. Cheap: videos.list is 1 unit per 50 ids.
A channel whose stored uploads already meet or exceed YouTube's advertised
video_count holds its whole history, but backfill_done could stay false forever
when the deep cursor never reached the end (e.g. a small channel that was never
deep-requested, so the demand-driven deep job never ran). Such channels nagged
as 'needs full history' despite having every video. Add reconcile_full_history()
(idempotent, no quota) and run it at the end of each recent/deep backfill cycle
so backfill_done self-heals.
When recent backfill stopped partway through a page (age cutoff or count cap),
it stored the *next* page token as the deep-backfill cursor, so the older items
remaining on that same page were collected by neither pass — a channel could
report backfill_done while silently missing a band of videos right around the
365-day cutoff. Now resume deep from the page we stopped on (re-fetched; inserts
are idempotent). Verified: Pánczél went 200 -> 209 stored (= full uploads
playlist) after re-backfill.
- Shorts: confirm via youtube.com/shorts/<id> probe (SOCS cookie bypasses the
consent redirect) instead of a 60s heuristic; concurrent probing, shorts_probed
flag, scheduled refinement (migration 0005)
- Search: match title + channel name only (descriptions caused noisy results)
- Faceted tag filtering: AND across categories (language AND topic narrows),
OR within a category; any/all toggle applies to topics
- Language detection: majority vote over individual titles (fixes misdetections
like multipoleguy -> English; drops bogus Polish/Romanian)
- Login: drop forced consent so returning sign-in is quick (select_account)
- Feed cards: clickable channel name (opens channel), persistent saved badge,
undo toast on hide, Hidden view to restore; tag chips show counts in tooltip
- Free per-channel RSS reader for quota-less fresh-video detection
- Recent-first backfill (configurable: 100 videos / 1 year) plus resumable deep
backfill from the uploads playlist
- Enrichment via videos.list: duration, view/like counts, category, topics,
language, Shorts heuristic and livestream/premiere classification
- Reusable sync runners + APScheduler jobs (rss / enrich / backfill), all
quota-aware with a reserve so backfill never starves fresh enrichment
- Manual triggers: POST /api/sync/{rss,backfill,enrich}
- Exact insert counting via RETURNING with in-batch de-duplication
peter