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siftlode/backend/app/youtube/related_scrape.py
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peter 8b37c470ba feat(catalog): a video's related videos, without what the user has seen
GET /api/search/related/{video_id} reads the list YouTube shows beside a
video from the website's InnerTube "next" endpoint (no quota), and brings
it into the catalog the way live-search results come in. It leaves out
what the user watched or hid, here or in their Takeout history (unless
taken back to "new" since), blocked channels and the video itself, and
pages on until 20 are gathered (at most 4 pages). region=topical|hu picks
the locale the list is filled in. Its own per-user daily cap
(related_daily_limit_per_user, one event per opened list); a failed
scrape answers 422 youtube/unavailable.

The InnerTube request (live key, consent cookie, errors) moves into
youtube/innertube.py, shared by the search scrape and the related one.
2026-10-24 16:00:37 +02:00

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"""A video's related videos, read from the watch page's InnerTube `next` endpoint — no quota.
The Data API has no related-videos call any more, so this is the only source: the same list the
website shows beside a playing video. A page holds about 20 videos and a continuation token for the
next 20. The returned page has the search scrape's shape (``{"items": [...], "next_page_token"}``)
so the catalog ingests it the same way (`catalog.search.ingest_candidates`).
YouTube draws each item as a `lockupViewModel` now; the older `compactVideoRenderer` is read too, so
a rollback on its side does not empty the list. An item that names no single channel — a video by
several channels draws an avatar stack, not one avatar — is left out: the catalog row needs its
channel up front, and the stack does not say which one uploaded it.
`hl`/`gl` pick the locale YouTube fills the list in: ``en``/``US`` keeps it on the video's topic,
``hu``/``HU`` mixes in what is trending in Hungary (measured)."""
from app.youtube.innertube import ScrapeError, post, runs_text
__all__ = ["ScrapeError", "related"]
# Where a first page and a continuation page put their item list.
_FIRST = (
"contents",
"twoColumnWatchNextResults",
"secondaryResults",
"secondaryResults",
"results",
)
_APPENDS = ("appendContinuationItemsAction", "reloadContinuationItemsCommand")
def _at(node: object, *path: str | int) -> object:
"""The value under `path` in nested dicts/lists, or None where the path stops."""
for key in path:
if isinstance(node, dict) and isinstance(key, str):
node = node.get(key)
elif isinstance(node, list) and isinstance(key, int) and -len(node) <= key < len(node):
node = node[key]
else:
return None
return node
def _item(vid: str, channel_id: object, channel_title: object, title: object, sources: object):
if not isinstance(channel_id, str) or not channel_id:
return None
thumbs = sources if isinstance(sources, list) else []
return {
"id": vid,
"channel_id": channel_id,
"channel_title": channel_title if isinstance(channel_title, str) else None,
"title": title if isinstance(title, str) else None,
"published_at": None, # only a relative "1y ago" here; the enrich fills the real date
"thumbnail_url": _at(thumbs, -1, "url"),
"live_broadcast": "none", # live/upcoming are judged after the enrich, by live_status
}
def _lockup(node: dict) -> dict | None:
if node.get("contentType") != "LOCKUP_CONTENT_TYPE_VIDEO" or not node.get("contentId"):
return None
meta = _at(node, "metadata", "lockupMetadataViewModel")
channel_id = _at(
meta,
"image",
"decoratedAvatarViewModel",
"rendererContext",
"commandContext",
"onTap",
"innertubeCommand",
"browseEndpoint",
"browseId",
)
channel_title = _at(
meta, "metadata", "contentMetadataViewModel", "metadataRows", 0, "metadataParts", 0
)
return _item(
node["contentId"],
channel_id,
_at(channel_title, "text", "content"),
_at(meta, "title", "content"),
_at(node, "contentImage", "thumbnailViewModel", "image", "sources"),
)
def _compact(node: dict) -> dict | None:
vid = node.get("videoId")
if not vid:
return None
byline = _at(node, "longBylineText", "runs", 0)
return _item(
vid,
_at(byline, "navigationEndpoint", "browseEndpoint", "browseId"),
_at(byline, "text"),
runs_text(node.get("title")),
_at(node, "thumbnail", "thumbnails"),
)
def _items(data: dict) -> list | None:
"""The page's item list (first page or continuation), or None when it has neither frame."""
first = _at(data, *_FIRST)
if isinstance(first, list):
return first
# A video YouTube no longer has keeps the watch page's frame but draws an "isn't available"
# promo in it and no related column: nothing related, said by YouTube itself.
if isinstance(_at(data, *_FIRST[:2]), dict):
return []
for endpoint in data.get("onResponseReceivedEndpoints") or []:
for key in _APPENDS:
items = _at(endpoint, key, "continuationItems")
if isinstance(items, list):
return items
return None
def related(
video_id: str, continuation: str | None = None, *, hl: str = "en", gl: str = "US"
) -> dict:
"""One page of `video_id`'s related videos (`continuation` = the token a previous page gave).
A video YouTube no longer has is an empty page. An answer without the watch page's frame is a
`ScrapeError` — not an empty page, which would read as "nothing related"."""
body = {"continuation": continuation} if continuation else {"videoId": video_id}
data = post("next", body, hl=hl, gl=gl)
items = _items(data)
if items is None:
raise ScrapeError("InnerTube returned no related list")
out: list[dict] = []
seen: set[str] = set()
token = None
for entry in items:
if not isinstance(entry, dict):
continue
if "lockupViewModel" in entry:
item = _lockup(entry["lockupViewModel"])
elif "compactVideoRenderer" in entry:
item = _compact(entry["compactVideoRenderer"])
else:
token = token or _at(
entry,
"continuationItemRenderer",
"continuationEndpoint",
"continuationCommand",
"token",
)
continue
if item and item["id"] not in seen:
seen.add(item["id"])
out.append(item)
return {"items": out, "next_page_token": token if isinstance(token, str) else None}