Two independent bugs made an email+password registration unrecoverable in prod.
The verification link did nothing. urlWithParams/clearParams rebuilt the URL as
pathname+query and dropped the fragment — but the one-time auth tokens ride the
fragment (#verify=/#reset=, SB3), and the providers that mirror nav params
(useUrlMirror in FeedFilters/Playlists/Plex/Channels) sit ABOVE the lazily-loaded
<App> in main.tsx. Their mount effect replaceState'd the token away before the auth
card's chunk had loaded, so the card read an empty hash: the link opened a bare
sign-in page, no request, no banner. Both helpers now carry the fragment over.
The account was then locked out for good. SEC-10 nulls password_hash when an
unverified account is attested (here: admin approval landing before the user could
verify — which the bug above made impossible). That is indistinguishable from a
Google-only account, and reset eligibility keyed off password_hash alone, so no
reset link was ever issued: no password to sign in with, and no way to get one.
users.password_revoked_at records the revocation, reset eligibility honours it, and
setting a password again (reset-confirm or set-password) clears it. An account that
never had a password stays ineligible on purpose — its owner adds one from Settings.
/auth/verify now also answers password_reset_required so the card can say why the
registered password stopped working, instead of leaving the user at the uniform
"Invalid email or password". Telling the holder of a valid verify token leaks
nothing: they have already proved they own the mailbox.
The 0078 migration backfills the stamp for rows carrying the exact lockout signature
(local, non-demo, no password, unverified), so existing victims recover unaided.
Adds a movie-scoped "Playback" filter to the Plex feed so a user can isolate items by how
they play — the groundwork for collecting HW-transcodable (or no-transcode) versions.
Four classes derived from the stored `playable` + a new `transcode_hw` facet:
- Direct Play (direct), Direct Stream (remux)
- Transcode · HW — playable=transcode AND the iGPU can hardware-transcode it
- Transcode · SW — playable=transcode, software libx264 only
The HW/SW split is precise, not codec-only: a 10-bit/HDR HEVC is HW-decodable yet breaks the
VAAPI nv12 pipeline (the same case plex/stream special-cases), so it must count as SW.
Backend:
- New PlexItem columns (migration 0077): transcode_hw, video_bit_depth, media_probed_at.
Migration backfills transcode_hw codec-only so the filter works immediately.
- `plex.sync.transcode_hw_capable` is the single classifier; the HW-decodable codec set moves
to sync as `HW_DECODABLE_CODECS` and plex.stream imports it, so the catalog facet and the
runtime encoder choice can't disagree by codec.
- Bit-depth backfill (`_probe_media_batch`, wired into sync): probes only HW-decodable transcode
items' video Stream for bit-depth + HDR and refines a 10-bit/HDR HEVC to software. Bounded
per run, watermarked by media_probed_at. A codec change resets the watermark (stale probe).
- Filter + self-excluded facet on a shared `playback_class_expr` CASE (movie-leg only — a show
is an aggregate with no single class). transcode_hw threaded onto the feed/detail/card JSON.
Frontend:
- Multi-select "Playback" Combobox in the sidebar (movie scope, facet-empty drop-out), active
chips, 4-way corner-dot badge (green/blue/amber/red) + tooltip, and an info-page playback chip
with a codec · bit-depth subtitle. New `bg-info` (blue) token, i18n HU/EN parity.
- Fix a regression where the card's playback dot lost its hover tooltip: the full-card reveal
overlay swallowed the cursor; the dot now sits above it (z-20).
Gate: backend full lane + frontend typecheck/lint/knip/prettier/vitest all green. Browser-UAT'd
on localdev (filter narrows to the SW set, facet counts, badge colour + tooltip, info chip).
Add the non-yt-dlp ingest path so a user-uploaded file joins the same download
library and inherits its function set. Any file type is accepted: media
(video/audio) gets the full set (metadata, share, play/edit), a generic file
(pdf/zip/docx/…) is download-only.
- MediaAsset.media_kind ("video"|"audio"|"file") — the stored discriminator that
gates library actions. Set at every finalize (download probe, editor carries the
source's kind, upload probe); consolidates the ad-hoc audio-detect that lived only
in links.py into one invariant (downloads.mediakind.derive). Migration 0076 adds
the column + backfills existing rows.
- downloads/upload.py: ingest_upload probes the file (ffprobe → codecs/dims/duration),
places it in a per-user .uploads tree, and creates an already-ready asset + done job
(the same cache-hit shortcut enqueue uses). Uploads never expire (irreplaceable).
- POST /api/downloads/upload: streaming multipart with the per-file cap
(download_upload_max_bytes, default 500 MiB) enforced on actual bytes read; quota
charges the known size up front (quota.check_upload).
- Security: a generic file is always served force-download (attachment +
application/octet-stream) on both the in-app and public endpoints, so uploaded
HTML/SVG can't execute inline. Edit + redownload reject non-media / upload sources.
- python-multipart added (first multipart endpoint in the app).
"Sync to YouTube" was a one-directional destructive push (local wins, deletes
from YouTube every item not in the local list), so items added on YouTube were
lost and a dirty pull was skipped entirely. Replace it with a real 3-way merge:
each item is classified against the last-synced baseline as a local-add, a
YouTube-add, or a genuine delete, so an add or delete on either side survives.
- Persist the ordered baseline id set (new playlists.synced_video_ids, migration
0075); the fingerprint hash alone couldn't drive a merge. NULL baseline (fresh
export / pre-S7 link) unions losslessly on the first sync and records one.
- Pure merge_plan(baseline, local, youtube) -> add/remove per side + merged order
(local order, YouTube-only additions appended). merge_playlist applies the
local side directly and the YouTube side through the failure breaker; the
baseline only advances on full success so a partial failure re-converges.
- plan_merge/push-plan now report what each side gains and loses; the confirm
dialog shows the two-way plan before applying (pushPlanMerge, HU+EN).
- Tests: 10 new (pure classification incl. delete-vs-stale-copy; DB apply proving
a YouTube-add and a Siftlode-add both survive on both sides, a genuine delete
propagates without collateral loss, no-baseline never deletes, create path).
Each user stores their own login cookies (Netscape cookies.txt) for an
auth-walled download host (Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, Reddit) in
Settings; a download of an auth-walled link on that host is retried with
the acting user's cookie.
Two load-bearing security controls, both in downloads.credentials as the
single source of truth so enqueue and the worker can't drift:
- cache privacy: a cookie-authed download salts its MediaAsset format_sig
with the user id, so the authed asset is private and never cache-served
to another user. The worker attaches a cookie ONLY when the asset it is
downloading into IS that private, salted identity.
- host scope (SEC-12): a cookie is resolved only for a URL whose netloc
the credential owns (netloc-scoped _host_is); a look-alike/unrelated
host gets none.
cookies_enc is Fernet-encrypted at rest, only decrypted in-worker into a
0600 file under staging/.auth/ (survives the retry wipe + _produced_file
scan) and unlinked in finally. The blob is never returned by a route,
logged, audited, or written to a job's error/snapshot. cookiefile is set
after the adapter's extra merge so an adapter can't clobber it. Settings
UI is write-only (host + set/updated only, never echoed). New
download_credentials table + migration 0074; per-user routes; HU+EN i18n.
Tests: host-scope, cache-privacy (no cross-user serve), encrypt-at-rest,
write-only API, worker attach-gate; FE dom test for the write-only field.
Self-review of the branch diff (feature/plex-filter-bar-overhaul) against main:
- Surprise rail query key omitted `lang` while the backend /surprise now filters
against the language-specific genre column → a HU/EN switch under an active genre
filter left the rail stale. Key it by scope+lang+filters, matching plexDiscover.
- Chip-removing a collection left its entry in `collectionTitles` (hashed into the
plex query keys), splitting the cache from the pristine no-collection state and
growing the titles map unboundedly. Prune the title on remove, like CollectionPicker.
- The saved-views default-mirror effect gained `cfg` in its deps (re-memoized on every
live filter edit) → a synchronous localStorage write per keystroke. Depend on the
module-stable mirror fn instead.
- Collections-browse search input had no accessible name (placeholder only). Add
aria-label + type="search".
- Extract the tile hue-hash + gradient duplicated between PlexDiscover and
plexBrowseLists into a shared lib/hueTile so the two surfaces can't drift.
- Document migration 0073 downgrade() as lossy and de-dup non-feed rows before
recreating the narrow (user_id, name) constraint (verified by the drift test).
- Add unit tests for coercePlexFilters (legacy single-collection migration) and
plexFiltersSignature (order-independence, title-ignoring).
Gate: tsc/lint/knip/prettier clean, 410 vitest; backend ruff + migration drift +
saved-views tests green.
Saved "smart views" were feed-only; the Plex module is getting them too. Add a
`source` discriminator to saved_views ("feed" | "plex"), default "feed" so every
existing row and any source-less client stays feed. Widen the per-user unique
name constraint to (user_id, source, name) so a feed view and a Plex view can
share a name, and scope create's position numbering + the is_default "clear the
others" to (user, source).
Migration 0073 (ADD source NOT NULL server_default 'feed' + swap the unique
constraint; reversible). Endpoints: GET/POST take `source` (default feed).
Tests: source isolation, per-source default, per-source name uniqueness.
The person page now leads with a TMDB bio, lazily fetched the first time it's
opened (off the S2-linked `tmdb_person_id`) and then served from the row:
- Migration 0072: ADD-only nullable person columns on plex_people — biography,
birthday, deathday, place_of_birth, known_for_department, also_known_as,
known_for ([{tmdb_id, media_type, title}]), tmdb_enriched_at.
- tmdb.py: TmdbClient.fetch_person (/person/{id}+combined_credits), parse_person
(bio + a popularity-ranked, deduped known_for), apply_person, enrich_person
(lazy one-shot, key+id guarded, commits, 404 stamps the watermark).
- people.py person_detail: loads the full person row, lazily enriches (best-effort
— never fails the page), serves the bio fields + resolves known_for to library
rows by guid (in-library only, popularity order).
- FE PlexPersonView: bio/birth-facts/aka hero + a "Known for" Carousel rail above
the existing Movies/Shows filmography; PlexPersonDetail type + i18n (en+hu).
Tests: test_plex_person_bio.py (6: parse / lazy-enrich guards / serve) + extended
PlexPersonView.dom.test.tsx + the unknown-name contract in test_plex_person.py.
Browser-E2E'd on Jim Carrey (live TMDB enrich → bio 1937 chars, born 1962-01-17
Newmarket, Known-for resolved). Gate: vitest 337, backend lane 402.
Matches each mirrored Plex movie/show to TMDB by its stored canonical guid,
fetches once (append_to_response), and PERSISTS the enrichment onto the row —
served from the DB, never a live TMDB call at serve time. Additive: the
Plex-sourced imdb_rating/rating are untouched; tmdb_rating is the distinct
TMDb community score (ratings scope = TMDb + Plex's IMDb/audience, no OMDb/RT).
- config.py: tmdb_api_key + api_base/language/interval/batch defaults.
- sysconfig SPECS: tmdb_api_key (secret, Fernet) + tmdb_language, auto-rendered
in the admin Config page; read like the Plex token.
- migration 0071 (ADD-only nullable, reversible): plex_items + plex_shows gain
tmdb_id / tmdb_enriched_at (watermark) / tmdb_rating / tmdb_vote_count /
budget / revenue / keywords / crew / studios / production_countries /
recommendations / backdrops; plex_people gains tmdb_person_id (the S2
foundation for S6 person bios). No watermark reset needed.
- app/plex/tmdb.py: TmdbClient (mirrors PlexClient; throttled; 404->None,
transient->TmdbError), parse_tmdb / apply_tmdb_detail (one-parser rule),
guid_to_tmdb_id (tmdb: direct, imdb:/tvdb: via /find), enrich_batch (movies
then shows, transient error leaves the watermark NULL to retry, definitive
no-match still stamps so it isn't re-fetched), _link_people (upserts
tmdb_person_id by name), serve_block (recommendations resolved to library
rows by guid), run_enrich (no-op without a key).
- scheduler: tmdb_enrich nightly job (default 120 min, no YouTube quota),
runtime-tunable + "run now" from the Scheduler dashboard.
- detail endpoints emit `tmdb` (movies + shows) so it's curl-verifiable now;
the FE render lands in S5.
Note: _link_people inserts plex_people rows for TMDB cast/crew; unreferenced
crew (composers etc., not in cast_names/directors) get pruned by the orphan
sweep — acceptable, the person page is cast-driven and cast rows survive.
Gate: ruff + py_compile green; backend test lane FULL suite 387 passed
(incl. migration drift downgrade->re-upgrade + test_plex_tmdb 9 tests).
Frontend unchanged since S1. Not merged (epic branch, stacks on S1).
The admin-tunable maintenance re-validation batch lived in its own app_state
column with a hand-rolled override-or-default reader in app.state — a fourth
config store duplicating the sysconfig SPECS pattern. Move it to a sysconfig key
(`maintenance` group, min=100 max=100_000): the reader (sync/maintenance.py) and
the Scheduler dashboard (routes/scheduler.py PATCH + GET) now go through
sysconfig.get_int / set_value / spec, and app.state loses get/set_maintenance_batch
+ the MIN/MAX constants + the settings import. Migration 0070 carries any existing
override into the system_config store before dropping the app_state column
(reversible; restores + copies back on downgrade). Reuses the existing
sysconfig.spec() for the dashboard's min/max, so the bounds have one source.
Full lane 365 pass (migration drift + reversibility exercised), ruff clean.
The via_search / shorts_probed partials used `WHERE via_search` / `WHERE NOT
shorts_probed`, but the queries filter with `.is_(True)`/`.is_(False)` (SQL
`IS TRUE`/`IS FALSE`), which Postgres's partial-index prover does NOT match to a
bare-boolean predicate — so both fell back to a full seq scan (the shorts-probe
job kept full-scanning for its work queue, the exact thing PERF-3 meant to fix).
Align the predicates to the query form: `WHERE via_search IS TRUE` and
`WHERE shorts_probed IS FALSE`. Verified on the prod-sized localdev: both now
Index Only Scan (via_search 44,683 -> 3 buffers; shorts_probed 44,683 -> 1).
Gate green (346 pytest).
Two scheduler jobs full-seq-scanned the 257k-row videos table every run:
- PERF-17 enrich_pending (`WHERE enriched_at IS NULL LIMIT N`, every few minutes):
44,680 buffers even with 0 pending -> a partial ix_videos_enrich_pending makes
it a 1-buffer index scan (empty when nothing pending).
- PERF-18 maintenance revalidate (`WHERE unavailable_since IS NULL ORDER BY
last_checked_at NULLS FIRST LIMIT N`, ~300 pages/run): 44,754 buffers + top-N
sort -> a partial ix_videos_recheck_order in that exact order = a 42-buffer
index scan. The order_by is rewritten to `asc().nulls_first()` (equivalent to
the old `(IS NULL) DESC, ASC`) so it rides the index; the unused plain
ix_videos_last_checked_at is dropped.
PERF-3: drop the never-picked boolean btrees (is_short, via_explore) and slim the
useful ones to partials over the queried subset (via_search=true, NOT
shorts_probed, unavailable_since IS NOT NULL) — less write amplification on the
biggest table, same lookups. Model: those 6 columns lose their inline index=True
(the partials are migration-defined, like the search_vector GIN); live_status
left alone.
Measured on the prod-sized localdev reseed: enrich 44,680 -> 1 buffer (25.9 ->
0.02 ms), maintenance 44,754 -> 42 buffers (35.5 -> 0.17 ms); all 11 CONCURRENTLY
index ops on 257k rows in 0.75s. Gate green (346 pytest incl. drift + downgrade
round-trip).
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).
The feed's default `newest` sort is `published_at DESC NULLS LAST, id ASC`, but
the only published_at index was a plain ASC btree — read backwards it satisfies
DESC NULLS FIRST, not NULLS LAST — so every feed page fell back to a full
`videos` seq scan + top-N sort. Migration 0067 adds the two matching indexes
(global + per-channel) CONCURRENTLY and drops the now-redundant single-column
ix_videos_channel_id (the channel composite leads with channel_id, a strict
superset).
Measured on the prod-sized localdev reseed (257,312 videos, prod planner):
- global newest: 44,747 buffers / 154 ms -> 60 buffers / 0.32 ms
- per-channel(12.6k): 7,604 buffers / 96 ms -> 54 buffers / 0.14 ms
CONCURRENTLY build of both on 257k rows: 1.7s total (~0 downtime). This is the
likely root cause of the "prod feed is slow" symptom.
Model: drop the inline index=True on Video.channel_id (the composite supersedes
it); the composites are migration-defined like the search_vector GIN. Gate green
(334 pytest incl. the migration drift + downgrade/re-upgrade round-trip).
The drift check dropped every diff except table/column presence, so a column
type or nullability change would slip through. Add modify_type/modify_nullable
to the ops it fails on. That immediately surfaced a real pre-existing drift:
notifications.created_at was created NULLABLE by migration 0017 but the model
has always declared it NOT NULL (Mapped[datetime] + server_default=func.now()).
Migration 0066 enforces NOT NULL to match the model — safe, since the
server_default has filled every row since day one.
Persist the info-page rich fields that were previously read LIVE from plex.metadata() on every view —
imdb_rating (IMDb-specific, vs `rating`=audienceRating), imdb_id, tagline, and full_cast
([{name,role,thumb}]) — onto plex_items/plex_shows, and serve the detail endpoints from the row.
- migration 0065: ADD imdb_rating/imdb_id/tagline/full_cast (nullable → no rewrite/lock, unlike 0064);
NULL people_enriched_at on movie/show rows so the existing cast backfill re-fetches each once and
fills the new columns.
- new app/plex/detail.py: rich_detail(meta) (moved out of browse._rich_meta so sync + serve share one
parser) + apply_rich_detail(row, meta); wired into _enrich_people_batch and the info-page lazy fill.
- item_detail: movies serve cast/IMDb/tagline/genres from the row and keep plex.metadata(markers=True)
ONLY for markers + audio/subtitle streams (so detail survives a live-Plex outage); episodes (never
enriched) still parse detail from that live meta.
- show_detail: serves cast/IMDb from the row; `related` stays live best-effort and also lazily fills a
not-yet-enriched show.
- tests: rich_detail/apply_rich_detail parsing + persistence, backfill stamping, item_detail
outage-resilience + lazy fill + episode-live, show_detail row serving. Full suite 285 pass / 2 skip;
migration verified reversible (up→down→up).
Precondition for S6's pure-DB language-aware serving.
Adds the storage + sync for the Hungarian-metadata overlay (the browsable EN sections gain HU
twin fields written from a paired HU section, matched by guid; no browsable HU rows).
Schema (2 migrations, ADD-only; run before the first HU sync while *_hu is NULL so the generated
column build is trivial):
- 0063: plex_libraries.metadata_lang ('en' default) + self-FK overlay_of.
- 0064: plex_items/plex_shows.guid (indexed) + title_hu/summary_hu/genres_hu (+ GIN) + a STORED
generated search_vector_hu mirroring the EN vector (title_hu A / people_text B / summary_hu C) + GIN.
Sync:
- includeGuids=1 on section_items so the canonical guid rides the cheap listing.
- _canonical_guid(meta) (tmdb > imdb > tvdb) captured onto every EN row in _apply_item/_sync_shows.
- Two-pass sync(): pass 1 mirrors browsable (non-overlay) sections; pass 2 reads plex_overlay_map
('huKey:enKey', new sysconfig), designates each HU section (metadata_lang='hu' + overlay_of), and
_sync_overlay writes title_hu/summary_hu/genres_hu onto the guid-matched EN rows.
Browse: _content_libs now excludes overlay libraries (overlay_of is None); the unified_library and
facets inline library partitions fold into it, and list_libraries/collections exclude overlays too.
Tests: DB-lane coverage of the overlay write (matched vs unmatched rows, no browsable HU rows, the
generated search_vector_hu populates), the guid parse, and the browse exclusion. Full suite 272
passed; migrations verified reversible (upgrade→downgrade→upgrade). S5b (persist the live detail
fields + serve item/show detail from DB) is the follow-up.
- Floor the effective max_concurrent at 1 on the read path (quota.resolve)
and in the claim SQL (GREATEST(..., 1)). admin_set_quota already floors on
write and the sysconfig default's min is 1, but a stray stored 0 (direct DB
edit) would diverge the two "at limit" checks — the SQL claim-window
exclusion can't see a user "capped" with zero running jobs, while
at_concurrency_limit can — reopening the starvation the fairness fix closes.
Keeping the effective limit >= 1 makes the two checks provably agree.
- shared_with_me now orders by (created_at DESC, id DESC) to match
list_downloads, so the newly-added 500 cap has a stable boundary among
same-timestamp shares instead of a non-deterministic one.
- 0062 upgrade loop: rename the unused loop var "table" to "_table"
(matching the underscore-marked "_col").
Test: a stored max_concurrent=0 flooder no longer wedges the claim loop.
Each column already leads a composite UNIQUE constraint whose btree covers
leftmost-prefix lookups on it (and the ON DELETE CASCADE reverse lookups),
so the extra single-column index=True was pure write-amplification. Drop
index=True on the 10 columns + alembic 0062 drops the existing indexes
(DROP INDEX IF EXISTS; downgrade recreates). Verified: migration up/down
round-trips on localdev (10 indexes drop, composites intact), siftlode
check green (alembic upgrade head incl. 0062 + pytest 193). The 10 do not
appear in an alembic-check model/DB diff → models and migration agree.
Failed downloads stored the raw yt-dlp/ffmpeg text and dumped it as a truncated red
one-liner in the queue. Classify the failure into a category (unavailable / login_required /
geo_blocked / format_unavailable / drm / postprocess / source_missing / network / unknown)
and surface it properly:
- backend: app/downloads/errors.classify maps the raw message to a category code; the worker
stores it in the new download_jobs.error_code (migration 0061) at both failure sites; resume
clears it; the serializer exposes it. Raw text kept as technical detail.
- frontend: the queue row shows a clean localized reason + a "details" link opening a modal
with the explanation, the raw text behind a disclosure, and a Retry only for transient
categories (network/postprocess/unknown).
- tests: classify() unit coverage over verbatim yt-dlp/ffmpeg message shapes.
First real customers of the DB lane:
- test_plex_facets: GET /api/plex/facets?scope=show returns 200 (not the
"cannot extract elements from a scalar" 500) for a show whose genres is a JSONB
scalar `null` — the 0.53.1 read-guard's regression test. Mutation-checked:
removing the jsonb_typeof='array' guard turns it red with that exact error.
- migration 0060 (S3a): one-time UPDATE …=NULL WHERE jsonb_typeof=… 'null' over the
plex_items/plex_shows tag columns, so pre-0.53.1 JSONB-null rows become uniform SQL
NULL and the read-guards go belt-only. test_plex_jsonb_normalize verifies scalar-null
→ SQL NULL while a real array is preserved.
Gate: ruff clean; DB lane 176 passed; pure-logic lane unchanged (skips the DB tests).
- C-3.7: fold a per-link password_version into the signed watch grant (migration
0059 adds the column) and bump it on every password change, so rotating a share
link's password invalidates outstanding grants at once instead of letting them
live out the 6h TTL. make_grant/check_grant take the version; update_link bumps.
- C-3.8: the share recipient picker and share-by-email now reuse the messageable
filter (not-demo AND active AND not-suspended) instead of only excluding demo,
so suspended/deactivated addresses aren't leaked or reachable as targets.
- C-3.9: GET /keys/{user_id} adopts get_thread's MB2 guard — a non-messageable
target with no shared history returns the same "User not found" as a missing id,
so it can't be probed to enumerate users or fetch suspended users' keys.
- C-3.12: _register_account catches IntegrityError on the insert (the select-then-
insert TOCTOU) and treats it as the already-registered no-op.
- C-3.13: trigger_job claims the running flag atomically under _activity_lock
(compare-and-set) instead of a bare check, closing the double-start window.
- Move _messageable/is_messageable_user into a shared app/userscope.py so downloads
doesn't import the messages route module.
Shared /watch links showed a "broken play button" on iPad (any iOS
browser — all forced onto WebKit) while playing fine on desktop Chrome.
Root cause: the stored mp4's video codec was AV1 (confirmed via ffprobe),
which WebKit can't decode. The existing H.264 guard was only a
format_sort *preference*, so a non-YouTube source (Facebook) that ships
AV1 as its best video-only stream slipped through.
- B1: for the mp4 compat profile, prefer H.264 at the SELECTION level
with a progressive fallback (bestvideo[vcodec^=avc1]+bestaudio /
best[vcodec^=avc1] / anything) so an avc1 progressive is chosen over
an AV1-only video-only stream.
- B2: re-encode the rare AV1/VP9-only result to H.264+AAC (+faststart)
in the worker before storing, gated on the compat profile; corrects
the asset codec metadata to match.
- Bump _SIG_VERSION 2->3 so cached AV1 assets re-derive.
- Default download preset is now 720p (migration 0058 re-seeds builtins
720p-first; ProfileEditor BLANK 1080->720).
- Tests for the selector, compat opt-outs, and the transcode predicate.
Lazy enrichment only covers viewed titles, so an actor's count/results were
partial. Add a background backfill: each plex_sync rich-fetches a bounded batch
(60) of not-yet-enriched movies/shows and persists their FULL cast, stamping
people_enriched_at so each is fetched once — the whole library is covered over
successive runs (migration 0057 adds the marker). Extracted the enrichment into a
shared app/plex/people.py (cast_from_meta / enrich_row_people / prune_orphan_people
+ the person-image host/proxy) so the info-page lazy path and the batch share ONE
implementation — no duplication; the info page also stamps the marker so the batch
skips it. Verified: an 8-item batch grows those movies' cast_names 3->24 and fills
plex_people (32->224); the info-page cast is intact after the _rich_meta refactor.
(Plex cast-explore S1b)
The cheap section listing that drives the main sync only stores the top ~3 cast,
so any cast member below that was unfilterable (clicking them AND-emptied the
grid). Now the movie/show info fetch (/item, /show) — which already pulls the full
rich cast — persists it onto cast_names + people_text (so every displayed cast
member becomes filterable) and caches each headshot in the new plex_people table
(migration 0056). Idempotent (only grows a thinner stored set); best-effort (never
500s a read). Verified: 10 Cloverfield Lane 3->8 cast after viewing; plex_people
populated with photos. (Plex cast-explore S1a)
- fix: reserve the scrollbar gutter (scrollbar-gutter:stable) on the channel
page's scroll container, so switching between the tall Videos tab and the
short About tab no longer shifts the banner/avatar/buttons a few px sideways
(the vertical scrollbar was appearing/disappearing between the two tabs).
- About tab now shows Country (flag + localized name), Language, Topics
(topicCategories → readable chips), and Keywords (brandingSettings keywords
parsed into chips, quoted multi-word tags kept whole). country/language/topics
were already stored; keywords is new (migration 0055_channel_keywords, mapped
in apply_channel_details, returned by channel_detail).
- Discovery → channel page: the Channel-manager "Discover from playlists" tab now
links each channel name to its in-app channel page (ChannelLink onView), so a
discovered channel's About/videos can be inspected BEFORE subscribing (was
subscribe-only, plain text before).
Note: the channel info-card epic itself was already delivered in v0.19.0; this is
the About-tab enrichment follow-up + the header-shift fix. external_links stays
empty by design (YouTube removed the field from the Data API ~2023).
Signed client-side session cookies had no server-side kill switch: logout + password
reset couldn't evict a stolen/copied cookie (valid until expiry). Add User.session_epoch
(migration 0053), record it in the cookie at every login, and reject in current_user any
cookie whose recorded epoch is behind the account's current one.
- Bump the epoch on: password reset (kills ALL sessions — a reset is a compromise response),
password change + a new 'Log out other sessions' action (both re-stamp the CURRENT cookie
so the caller stays signed in, evicting only the others).
- Per-account epoch map in the session so one account's revocation doesn't evict the other
signed-in accounts in the same browser wallet.
- Missing epoch (pre-SA4 cookie) is treated as 0, so the first bump revokes grandfathered
sessions too.
- New POST /auth/logout-others + a Settings → Account 'Active sessions' button (trilingual).
Give TV shows the same filterable metadata as movies so the TV grid can be
filtered/sorted, not just library+sort. Backend: migration 0052 adds
rating/content_rating/studio/originally_available_at/genres/directors/cast_names/
people_text to plex_shows (+ GIN/indexes, people_text folded into search_vector);
_sync_shows populates them cheaply from the show section listing (no per-item
calls). /browse show-branch gains the movie filter set (minus duration) plus an
aggregate per-user watch-state (a show rolls up its episodes: all watched=watched,
any progress=in_progress, none=new) with year/rating/release sorts; /facets returns
show facets. Frontend: PlexSidebar renders the metadata filters + watch-state for TV
libraries (duration stays movie-only); show cards show a watched/in-progress badge.
i18n plex.inProgress (en/hu/de). Needs a Plex re-sync to populate the new columns.
Plex records watch state per Plex account; Siftlode per user in plex_states. A new plex_link table
maps a Siftlode user to a Plex account; for the owner (MVP) the row uses the server admin token
(uses_admin=True), so no separate Plex login. app/plex/watch_sync.py reads the owner account's
viewCount/viewOffset/lastViewedAt (already present in the catalog mirror's section listing) and
upserts them into the owner's plex_states — 'Plex is master' on this first import, but only where
Plex has a watch record (Siftlode-only states are preserved; union on the intersection). Idempotent.
Admin routes: GET/POST /api/plex/watch/link (status + enable/disable; first enable runs the import)
and POST /api/plex/watch/import (re-run). Migration 0051_plex_link. Two-way push (Phase B) and the
incremental Plex→Siftlode reconcile (Phase C) build on this in later ships.
Two visual gaps for non-catalog downloads:
- Channel link: YouTube already exposes channel_url; Facebook exposes none but a
numeric uploader_id that resolves at facebook.com/<id>. `_uploader_url` derives
it so the auto-detected channel renders as a real clickable link.
- Poster: a source with no thumbnail (e.g. a direct reddit HLS URL) showed a
blank image box. The worker now cuts a representative frame with ffmpeg
(`ensure_poster`) into the `<base>.jpg` sidecar and records `poster_path`
(migration 0050). The card, the public watch page (<video poster> + og:image),
and link previews fall back to it via new authed + public poster endpoints.
Adds `app.downloads.backfill` (one-off, re-run-safe) to fill uploader_url
(re-extract YouTube/Facebook metadata) and posters for pre-existing downloads.
The edit (pencil) action now edits a download's full display metadata — title,
channel name, channel link and any number of extra reference URLs — instead of
just the name. The channel and links render as clickable links on the library
card, and the channel link is auto-filled from the source (yt-dlp channel_url)
when available. Shared watch pages resolve the same per-download overrides, so a
rename/channel/link edit is reflected on the public /watch page too, with every
link clickable.
Adds migration 0049 (media_assets.uploader_url; download_jobs.display_uploader,
display_uploader_url, extra_links) and generalizes the rename endpoint into a
metadata update with URL validation. EN/HU/DE strings included.
Personal ordered lists of Plex items, kept in Siftlode's own DB (works for users
without a Plex account, like watch-state) — the "your own lists" counterpart to
shared collections. Plex-direction sync is a later phase (plex_rating_key
reserved).
Backend: migration 0048 (plex_playlists + plex_playlist_items with position),
PlexPlaylist/PlexPlaylistItem models, and per-user CRUD endpoints under
/api/plex/playlists (list [+?contains for the add dialog], create [seeded],
detail [ordered cards], rename, delete, add/remove item, reorder). _leaf_card
handles the movie/episode mix. Frontend: "Add to playlist" dialog from the movie
info page (all users), a Playlists section in PlexSidebar (list + create),
PlexPlaylistView (reorder up/down, remove, rename, delete, Play all), and
PlexPlayer gained an optional `queue` so play-through follows the list order
(prev/next + auto-advance). i18n en/hu/de. Verified end-to-end on localdev
(backend CRUD + the create→add→view→play-through UI flow).
Backend (migration 0047_plex_collections): a plex_collections table mirrors every Plex
collection (card metadata + smart flag + an editable flag reserved for Phase 2); membership
is stored as GIN-indexed collection_keys on member movies (plex_items) and shows (plex_shows).
The background sync (plex_sync) now fetches each library's collections + their children and
rebuilds membership — so ALL reads are local (Plex's dual-language collection queries are slow;
this trades a ~4-min background sync for instant reads). New /api/plex/collections endpoint;
/browse gains a combinable filter; item_detail returns the movie's collection
'strips' (sibling titles as playable cards, smallest/most-specific collection first) — all pure
local lookups.
Frontend: PlexSidebar gains a searchable Collection picker + an active-collection chip;
PlexInfo renders the collection strips (playable posters + 'Browse collection' → sets the
filter); the collection is part of PlexFilters (persisted). i18n en/hu/de.
Phase 2 (create/edit collections with write-back to Plex) is separate.
Backend (migration 0046_plex_people_search): a new people_text column (cast +
director names, de-duped) is folded into the generated search_vector at weight B,
so the top search box finds titles by an actor/director name and ranks them above
summary-only mentions. New /api/plex/people endpoint returns the cast/crew matching
the term (name prefix or word-start) with a film count + a headshot (pulled from one
representative film's live metadata; image bytes disk-cached).
Frontend: PlexBrowse shows matching people as virtual cards above the grid; clicking
one adds them to the actor/director filter (multi-value, from the C1 work) and clears
the search box so you land on exactly that person's films. Answers the 'why does
"drew" match Rambo?' confusion — it was matching the word in the synopsis; now names
are searchable. i18n en/hu/de.
⚠️ Prod needs a Plex re-sync after deploy to populate people_text (search_vector
regenerates automatically once the column has data).
Backend (migration 0045_plex_filter_meta): plex_items gains rating (audienceRating
~IMDb), content_rating, studio, originally_available_at, and GIN-indexed genres /
directors / cast_names — all mirrored from the cheap section listing (no per-item API
calls; they also seed a future watch-habit recommender). /browse gains genre / content-
rating / year / rating / duration / added-within / director / actor / studio filters
(@> containment, GIN) + sort by year|rating|duration|release; new /facets endpoint
returns available genres+ratings (with counts) and the year/rating/duration bounds. A
thin on-disk image cache (.plex-img-cache) serves posters/art/cast photos from local
disk after first fetch (~7-14x faster repeat loads).
Frontend: PlexSidebar grows the full filter set (facet-driven genre/age chips, rating
steps, year range inputs, duration buckets, added-within, active people/studio chips,
clear-all); filters persist per-account as one JSON blob. PlexInfo metadata (year,
genre, director, cast, studio, IMDb score) is clickable → sets the matching filter and
returns to the filtered grid (page variant only; the in-player overlay stays read-only
so a stray click can't stop playback). i18n en/hu/de.
Every download now records the clean source page URL and shows it on the
Downloads page (open in a new tab, or copy to clipboard). The worker stores
yt-dlp's canonical webpage_url on the asset (migration 0043 adds
media_assets.source_webpage_url); the serializer prefers it and falls back to a
URL derived from source_kind+source_ref, so YouTube, external YouTube links and
external URLs (e.g. Facebook reels) all get a correct reference, and queued/older
rows work before the worker fills it. Edit clips return null (a clip's source is
the user's own earlier download, not a web page). i18n en/hu/de.
Share a download by a capability URL (/watch/{token}) that anyone can play on a login-free page —
distinct from the registered-user ACL share. Per-link controls: optional expiry, allow-download
toggle (stream-only vs downloadable), optional argon2 password. Revoke = delete.
- migration 0042 + DownloadLink model; app/downloads/links.py (token, HMAC grant sign/verify)
- owner endpoints (POST/GET/PATCH/DELETE links) + /recipients for the internal user picker
- public router (no auth): watch meta / password unlock→signed grant / range-aware file serve
(inline vs attachment); unlock is rate-limited; meta verifies the file exists on disk
Verified end-to-end: 206 range, inline vs attachment, wrong-password 403, tampered-grant 403.
Embedding (thumbnail/chapters) rewrote the whole file — a 10 GB video spent minutes making a
10 GB temp copy — while the Plex .nfo + poster sidecars already carry that metadata. So:
- builtin presets no longer embed (migration 0040 re-seeds them; formats._DEFAULTS embed off);
only the tiny FFmpegThumbnailsConvertor (for poster.jpg) remains, so downloads go
video -> audio -> merge -> done with no full-file rewrite
- default preset is now 1080p (Best stays available, second in the list) so a long video
doesn't silently pull ~10 GB and blow the quota
Users who want self-contained files can enable embedding in a custom profile.
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.
Per-user named snapshots of the feed's FeedFilters. New saved_views table
(migration 0035, unique per user+name, position, is_default) + SavedView
model, and a /api/saved-views router (list/create/patch/delete/reorder)
gated behind require_human so the shared demo account can't pollute it.
Setting is_default clears the flag on the user's other views (one default).
- Live-search results stay ephemeral: the discovery-cleanup job now also reclaims un-kept
via_search videos (no watch state / not playlisted / channel not subscribed) after a grace
period (search_grace_days), and POST /api/search/clear discards a given result set 'as if
never added' (drops the user's search-finds + deletes the now-orphaned, un-kept videos).
Admin POST /api/admin/purge-discovery runs it on demand (grace 0).
- Count selector: GET /api/search/youtube gains a 'limit' — the free scrape source pages
through continuations until that many results are gathered (no manual load-more); the API
source stays one ≤50 page (cost).
- Per-user channel blocklist (migration 0034 blocked_channels): block/unblock/list endpoints;
blocked channels' videos are dropped from live search before ingest and hidden from the feed
/ Library / explore / channel page; explore refuses a blocked channel.
- New-first ordering: results you already have (subscribed channel, watched/in-progress/saved/
playlisted) sink below genuinely-new discoveries, preserving relevance within each group.
Adds the backend for a dedicated channel page + ephemeral browsing of un-subscribed
channels:
- migration 0033: channels.{total_view_count,published_at,banner_url,external_links,
from_explore}, videos.via_explore, explored_channels (per-user, grace-clocked).
- enrich channels with part=brandingSettings (banner/links) + statistics.viewCount +
snippet.publishedAt — no extra quota.
- GET /api/channels/{id}: About detail + this user's relationship; lazy-enriches the new
About fields (published_at sentinel).
- POST /api/channels/{id}/explore (require_human, quota-reserve guarded): records the
exploration, flags the channel ephemeral unless followed, ingests one page of uploads
(via_explore) + enriches; returns next_page_token for load-more.
- feed: per-explorer gate — a via_explore video is visible only to users who explored or
subscribe to its channel, so exploration never leaks into everyone's catalog.
- subscribe = keep: clears from_explore + via_explore on the channel's videos.
- scheduler explore_cleanup job + explore_grace_days config: hard-delete explored-but-
unkept channels and their untouched ephemeral videos after a grace period.
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.
Two related search improvements:
1) Your own live-search results now belong to your Mine feed. A new per-user
search_finds table (migration 0030) records each video you surface via your
YouTube search (the route inserts them idempotently). The Mine feed becomes
'your non-hidden subscriptions OR your search finds', and the Source filter
now applies in Mine too: organic = subscriptions, search = your search finds,
all = both (default stays organic, so the main feed is unchanged). The shared
Library keeps using the global via_search flag.
2) Feed search ranks by relevance instead of a whole-phrase substring. A custom
unaccent_simple text-search config + GIN index (migration 0031) back a
YouTube-like fuzzy match: word-order-independent, multi-word AND, prefix on
the word being typed, accent-insensitive. A new 'relevance' sort orders by
ts_rank; the channel name still matches as a substring. The rank is scaled to
an integer so the keyset cursor pages it exactly (a raw float4 breaks paging).
_filtered_query returns the rank expr so only the feed list uses it.
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