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.
The progress bar looked broken (95% -> 5% -> recount) because yt-dlp downloads the video and
audio streams separately (each 0->100%) then merges — with no indication of which step is
running. Now:
- worker labels the phase from the stream codecs (video / audio) and via a postprocessor hook
(merging / processing), so the user sees what's happening
- DownloadCenter shows the phase as the status and renders an indeterminate pulse (no bogus %)
during merge/processing; phase i18n en/hu/de
- yt-dlp retries (3) + fragment_retries (5) so transient network blips self-heal instead of
failing the job (seen once as a DNS 'No address associated with hostname' error)
Verified: phase transitions queued -> video -> processing -> done.
A queued/downloading row previously showed the bare video id and no thumbnail because asset
metadata was only filled when the download completed. Now:
- service.populate_from_catalog fills title/uploader/thumbnail/date/duration at enqueue from
our own Video/Channel catalog (0 network cost) — feed downloads look right instantly
- worker fills the same from yt-dlp's info_dict on the first progress event (covers ad-hoc
URLs / catalog misses), best-effort, never fails a download
Verified: a paused feed download now shows its real title, channel, thumbnail and duration.
Two UAT findings:
1. The device download filename (Content-Disposition) kept emoji/symbols from the video title.
Add storage.display_filename (drops emoji/symbol/control unicode, keeps spaces + accents)
and use it for the download name — readable and clean ("…alapján!.mp4", no emoji).
2. Deleting/canceling a download removed the job but the shared MediaAsset (and its file) lingered
as cache, so 'Ready files' stayed inflated and disk wasn't freed. Rework: _release_asset drops
the hold and, once no job holds the asset, deletes the file + row immediately (the cache only
needs to span overlapping holders). Also fixes cancel never decrementing (it flipped status to
'canceled' before releasing, tripping the holding-state guard).
Verified: filename emoji-stripped; enqueue→delete removes the asset row + file from disk.
A plain <a> file download can't send the X-Siftlode-Account header, so current_user resolved
it to the session-default account — 404 'Unknown download' when the tab acts as a non-default
wallet account that owns the file. resolved_user_id now also honours a ?account= query param
(the same wallet-gated selection the WebSocket already uses), and downloadFileUrl appends the
active account id. Verified: default account -> 404, ?account=<owner> -> 206 with the right
Content-Disposition.
The .gitignore 'downloads/' pattern for the DOWNLOAD_ROOT bind mount also matched the
backend/app/downloads source package, so formats.py/storage.py/service.py never got
committed with M2. Anchor the ignore to '/downloads/' (repo root only) and add the package.
storage.sanitize() now handles arbitrarily messy titles (emoji, ZWJ, fullwidth, clickbait
punctuation): NFKC-normalize, drop emoji/symbol/control unicode categories, collapse
repeated punctuation, underscore-join words -> space-free paths. Accents (HU/DE) preserved,
no ASCII folding. Plex layout uses _-_ separators + Season_{year}.
Two tabs in one browser can now run two different signed-in accounts at once.
- The signed session cookie stays the browser's account WALLET (account_ids). Which account a
given tab acts as is a per-tab choice held in sessionStorage and sent per-request via the
X-Siftlode-Account header; current_user honours it only for an account already in the wallet,
without mutating the cookie's default account. Switching accounts sets the header + reloads
THIS tab only, instead of the old cookie-wide switch that changed every tab.
- WebSocket can't send headers, so the per-tab account rides in the ?account= query param
(validated against the wallet).
- Logout is per-tab aware: it signs the requesting tab's active account out of the wallet
(promoting a new default only if the removed one was the default), and the tab drops its
override. A stale per-tab header account 401s just that tab instead of clearing the session.
- Serve index.html with Cache-Control: no-cache so a deploy's new hashed bundle is picked up
immediately instead of the browser running a heuristically-cached stale index.html.
- Remove owner-specific / legacy deploy files (home/prod/server compose, deploy/).
The home compose stays as a local untracked file for the maintainer's own deploy.
- Genericise infra-specific code comments (egress-proxy examples) to neutral wording.
- Replace the hardcoded contact email on the legal pages with the instance operator's
configured admin email, served via the public /auth/config and shown with a neutral
fallback — so each self-hosted instance shows its own contact.
- Rewrite README for the current app + a copy-paste self-hosting quick start (prebuilt
image + first-run wizard) with a build-from-source alternative; tidy .env.example.
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 view: a results-count selector (20/40/60/100) replaces manual load-more (the free
scrape source pages until that many are gathered); an 'these results are temporary' banner with
a 'Clear now' button that discards them 'as if never added' (api.clearSearch) and returns to
the feed.
- Channel blocklist: a Block/Unblock toggle + 'Blocked' badge on the channel page (blocked
channels don't auto-explore and their videos are hidden), and a 'Blocked channels' section in
the Channel manager with one-click unblock. ChannelDetail.blocked from the backend.
- Admin: a 'Purge discovery' button on the Scheduler page (immediate un-kept search/explore
cleanup). EN/HU/DE throughout.
- 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.
- Channels manager: prominent channel-name search box and the 'Your tags' chips are now
clickable to filter the table by tag (replacing the hidden per-column DataTable popovers).
Both filter client-side over the status-filtered list; a focus-channel intent seeds the
search, the reset intent clears both.
- Feed 'Your tags' sidebar: count user tags in the facet endpoint (the 'other' category) and
make the widget contextual like language/topic — counts reflect the current filter and
zero-count chips hide (e.g. a source=search view with no tagged channels shows 'no matching
tags' instead of the full static list). EN/HU/DE searchPlaceholder.
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.
Live YouTube search can now use YouTube's internal InnerTube endpoint instead
of search.list, materialising results through the same enrich/provenance path
at zero API quota (search.list costs 100 units/page; scrape costs nothing, only
the cheap shared videos.list enrich is charged).
- youtube/search_scrape.py: InnerTube search returning the same page shape as
YouTubeClient.search_videos (items + continuation cursor); SOCS consent cookie,
videoRenderer walk (channels/playlists/Shorts shelves naturally excluded),
type:video filter, cached InnerTube key/version with constant fallbacks.
- routes/search.py: admin-selectable source (search_source, default scrape).
Scrape path skips the 100-unit budget pre-check and logs a zero-cost search
event so the per-user daily cap still counts it; api path unchanged. Response
carries the active source.
- sysconfig/config: new search_source key (scrape|api).
- quota.log_action: record a zero-cost action event for per-user rate limits.
Feed text search used plain ILIKE, which is case- but not diacritic-insensitive, so 'tiesto'
missed the many titles spelled 'Tiësto' — a search that ingested ~45 results showed only ~12.
Enable the postgres unaccent extension (migration 0029) and wrap both sides of the title/
channel match in unaccent(), so 'tiesto' now matches 'Tiësto'. Applies to feed, count and
facets alike.
Replace the binary 'show search-discovered' toggle with a 3-way Source selector in the
Library toolbar, so users can also see ONLY search-discovered videos — not just hide or
mix them. Backend: feed param library_source = organic (default, hides via_search) | all
(both) | search (only via_search), applied in scope=all. Strings in HU/EN/DE.
Add a live YouTube search that materialises results into the shared catalog so
they render with the normal feed cards + in-app player and gain per-user state.
- YouTubeClient.search_videos(): search.list (100 units), embeddable-only, returns
flat stubs + nextPageToken; surfaces liveBroadcastContent for live filtering.
- routes/search.py GET /api/search/youtube: require_human + per-user daily cap
(search_daily_limit_per_user, default 70) + can_spend pre-check (429 on either);
drops live/upcoming, upserts channel stubs (channels.list) + video stubs, enriches
(videos.list), runs the youtube.com/shorts probe, then excludes Shorts/live and
returns feed cards in relevance order with the YouTube pageToken as the cursor.
- Provenance: videos.via_search / channels.from_search (migration 0028) flag
search-discovered rows; the feed hides them from the Library (scope=all) by default
via exclude_search_discovered, leaving the Mine feed untouched.
- quota.actions_today() counts a user's per-action events today for the cap; only the
search.list call is attributed VIDEOS_SEARCH so the counter is exactly 1 per search.
TimestampMixin (created_at) + UpdatedAtMixin (updated_at) replace the repeated
column blocks across 9 + 3 models. Models that index created_at or default it
Python-side keep their own column on purpose. Verified zero schema drift via an
identical alembic-check diff before/after.
- feed_columns() is the single feed-row projection, consumed by both /feed and the
playlist-detail query (was copy-pasted, drift risk on every new column).
- _replace_items_from_youtube() dedups the YouTube playlist-mirror block shared by
sync_user_playlists and repull_playlist.
- _next_playlist_position/_next_item_position/_add_item replace the append-position
idiom (x4) and the exists-then-insert blocks (x2).
- quota.measured() context manager folds the before/after units diff that the
manual sync routes each re-spelled (also makes quota_remaining_today consistent).
- sync pause/resume now use Depends(admin_user) instead of inline role checks.
- is_messageable_user() unifies the 'real, active, non-suspended human' rule that
was encoded three ways (WS auth, send recipient, and the SQL _messageable()).
- app/utils.py: shared valid_email() + now_utc() (one email regex, was duplicated
in auth.py and admin.py with a looser "@"-in check elsewhere).
- security.hash_token(): one SHA-256 token hasher (was duplicated in auth.py + state.py).
- auth.admin_user dependency + count_admins() helper, replacing the inline role
checks and the last-admin count query repeated across admin.py/me.py/tags.py.
Watch later became a built-in playlist, so "saved" is no longer a VideoState
status — the scan matched nothing and under-counted users impacted by a video
removal. The playlist loop already covers Watch later, so impact is now correct.
Route the local _now through the shared utils.now_utc.
New youtube_api_proxy setting (env fallback + admin Config UI, env YOUTUBE_API_PROXY):
when set, the YouTubeClient routes all its httpx traffic through that HTTP(S) proxy.
Lets a dynamic-IP host send API calls through a fixed-IP host (e.g. the server over
private tunnel) so an IP-restricted API key keeps working. Empty = direct.
The live-message push now carries both parties, so an incoming message opens
that conversation's dock window if it's closed, or flashes it once if it's
already open (expanded or minimised, without disturbing the minimised state) —
only for messages from someone else, never your own echo.
Dock state (open windows + minimised state) is persisted per user, so a reload
restores exactly what was open, minimised, or closed.
Private user-to-user messages are end-to-end encrypted: the server only ever
stores ciphertext + iv and acts as a key directory (public keys) plus an opaque
store for each user's private key, wrapped client-side with a passphrase the
server never sees — so not even an admin can read a conversation. A separate
kind=system message (plaintext, no sender) powers a server-authored Siftlode
welcome shown on first open, reusable later for announcements.
- models: rework Message (kind, nullable sender/body, ciphertext+iv) + MessageKey;
migrations 0026 (table) + 0027 (E2EE rework).
- routes/messages.py: key directory/blob endpoints, ciphertext send, conversations
+ threads (system + user), lazy welcome, all gated by require_human.
- realtime.py: in-process WebSocket connection registry; /ws delivers sent
messages to a user's open tabs instantly (sync-callable push, single-process).
Replace deep-OFFSET paging (which scans-and-discards skipped rows on the
233k-row catalog and shifts/duplicates rows as the scheduler ingests mid-
scroll) with stable keyset pagination over an opaque cursor.
A single sort registry drives both the ORDER BY and a generic, NULL-aware
keyset WHERE so they can never drift, with Video.id as the unique final
tiebreaker. Covers every sort: newest/oldest, views, duration, title,
subscribers (joined), priority (coalesced multi-key) and the seeded
shuffle. The response now returns next_cursor instead of offset.
Replace the leftover 'subfeed' name across logger names + log_config,
frontend localStorage keys, Postgres user/db/volume defaults in the
compose files, .env.example, config.py, backup/restore scripts and the
README. Pure rename; no behavioural change. localStorage keys move from
subfeed.* to siftlode.* (one-time UI-state reset is acceptable).
- /api/me exposes instance-wide google_enabled. The onboarding nudge no longer auto-opens, and
Settings hides the YouTube-access section + the 'Connect Google' option, when the instance has
no Google OAuth configured (e.g. an email+password-only self-host). A linked account still shows
its 'Connected' status.
- POST /api/setup/admin (create the first admin: active+verified+admin), /config (persist any
registry-backed settings — Google creds, SMTP, quota…), /test-email, and /finish (mark
configured + invalidate the token). All behind require_setup (valid token AND not configured).
- GET /api/setup/info reports secrets_manageable so the wizard hides the Google/SMTP secret steps
on a box without TOKEN_ENCRYPTION_KEY.
- app_state gains configured + setup_token_hash (migration 0025); existing installs (any users)
are marked configured so they never see the wizard, a fresh DB starts in setup mode.
- On first boot the app mints a one-time setup token and logs the wizard URL (only the hash is
stored); the token gates the setup steps (added in 6c).
- A middleware locks all /api + /auth routes (except /api/setup, /api/version, /healthz, static)
to 503 until configured, with a DB-free cached fast-path once setup completes.
- GET /api/setup/status tells the SPA whether to show the wizard.
- Build the Google OAuth client lazily from sysconfig (DB override, env fallback) and re-register
when the credentials change, so the install wizard / admin can set them without a restart.
- New 'google' config group (google_client_id/secret, encrypted) on the Configuration page; the
token-refresh reads the creds the same way.
- Public GET /auth/config exposes google_enabled; the login page hides 'Continue with Google'
when Google OAuth isn't configured (email+password still works).
- Serve real files at the SPA root (e.g. /welcome/*.png, favicon) from the built app — the
landing screenshots were only ever shown by the Vite dev server, never in production.
- Add the Channel-manager screenshot; the two secondary previews are smaller thumbnails that
open in a custom full-size lightbox (fit-to-viewport, Esc/backdrop/✕ to close).
- Drop a suspended/deleted user to the login page on the next 401 (and poll the session only
while signed in, so the public login page no longer flickers); 'suspended' and 'account
deleted' confirmation banners; strip redirect query params for a clean address bar.
- New Users page tabs (Users & roles / Access requests / Demo) and a tab-ified Configuration
page, both via a reusable Tabs component (persisted active tab).
- Admin can suspend/unsuspend (migration 0023 adds users.is_suspended) and delete accounts
from the Users & roles tab, with guards (demo / self / last admin).
- Email notifications to the affected user: suspended (reactive, on a blocked sign-in),
reinstated, role changed, and account deleted; the approval email now carries a clickable
app link. The scheduled/manual demo reset also seeds sample channel subscriptions.
- Hide the 'unverified email' chip for Google accounts (Google attests the email).
- Link a Google account to a password account, and adopt the Google identity onto a matching
email account instead of 500ing on a duplicate; set or change a password from Settings.
- Expose has_google/has_password on /api/me for the Sign-in methods UI.
- Mark Google logins email-verified (backfill existing rows, migration 0024); stop a routine
login from clobbering an admin-assigned role (env ADMIN_EMAILS stays the bootstrap admin).
- Suspension login-gates (password + Google callback + current_user) with a rate-limited
'suspended' notice; shared purge_user (cascade delete + access-request cleanup + Google-grant
revoke) behind self- and admin-deletion; single app_base source for user-facing email links.
Add DELETE /api/me/account: permanently erases the signed-in account and all its
personal data — OAuth tokens, subscriptions, tags, video states, playlists,
notifications all cascade on the users row (FK ON DELETE CASCADE); quota-audit
events are kept but anonymised (SET NULL); the email's invite/whitelist row is
removed too. Guards: the shared demo account can't be deleted, and the last
remaining admin can't delete itself. Frontend: a Danger zone in Settings -> Account
(non-demo) with a danger-confirm; on success the session clears and the app lands
on the welcome page. EN/HU/DE. Verified via curl: self-delete + session clear +
demo 403.
A security audit of every mutating endpoint found no isolation gaps — all routes
scope by current_user, admin routes are gated, and the demo account is sandboxed
in its own user_id space (can't reach others' data, escalate, or hit admin
routes). The remaining demo concern is communal pollution of its own shared state,
so add an automatic reset: a new 'demo_reset' scheduler job (admin-tunable
interval, default 12h) reuses the manual reset logic, and no-ops without ever
creating a demo account if none exists. Verified: a triggered run wiped the demo's
video states and re-seeded its sample playlists.
Add email+password auth alongside Google: argon2id hashing; users gains
password_hash/email_verified/is_active and google_sub becomes nullable (migration
0022); a single-use, hashed auth_tokens table for email verification + password
reset. Registration creates a pending (inactive, unverified) account + an access
request; sign-in needs verified email AND admin approval. Anti-enumeration: uniform
register/login/reset responses (a correct-password owner still gets a specific
pending reason). allow_registration flag (DB-tunable). Admin users-list + role
endpoint (guards: not self, not demo, not the last admin); approving access (or a
manual whitelist add) now activates the matching pending account. current_user
rejects deactivated accounts. Verified end-to-end via curl + DB.
Register youtube_api_key in the sysconfig registry as a secret and resolve it from
the DB-override-or-env layer in YouTubeClient (self.db is in scope). Adds a YouTube
API group to the Configuration page (EN/HU/DE).
Google OAuth client id/secret stay env-only for now: the authlib client is
registered at module load (auth.py), and the token-refresh reads them too, so a
runtime DB override needs a lazy/re-registerable OAuth client — that belongs to the
install-wizard epic (first-boot OAuth config without restart). Admin-role-via-UI
moves to the auth-overhaul epic (user management lives there).
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.
Add a generic admin-editable config layer (epic 4a): system_config KV table
(migration 0021), a sysconfig registry that is the single source of truth for
DB-overridable keys (type/group/default/bounds/secret) + a DB-override-or-env
resolver, and admin endpoints (GET/PATCH/DELETE /api/admin/config + a test-email
probe). Secrets are Fernet-encrypted at rest (TOKEN_ENCRYPTION_KEY); without it
they stay env-only. First group wired end-to-end: Email/SMTP — email.py now
reads host/port/user/from/password via the resolver (own session, since email
is sent from background tasks).
The quota-attribution action keys were inconsistent (mixed verbs, ad-hoc names,
English-only labels). Introduce a QuotaAction constants holder (one source of
truth), rename every attribution call site to it, and add migration 0020 to
rename historical quota_events.action values. The display label now resolves
from i18n (quotaActions.<key>, EN/HU/DE) instead of a hard-coded English map.
Scheduler job ids and progress phase labels are a separate namespace and are
left untouched.
Same fix as the subscribe reconcile, applied to the remaining endpoints that
wrapped a YouTubeError in a 502: video lookup (feed) and playlist refresh,
push-plan, sync, and delete. A 502 is treated by the client as a transient
"connection lost" blip, so a real, explainable YouTube failure showed the wrong
message. 422 carries the clear detail to the error dialog instead.
Subscribing to a channel the user already follows on YouTube (a local/YouTube
desync — e.g. a stale import dropped the local row, so it resurfaced in the
discovery list) made YouTube return 400 "subscription already exists", which
the endpoint reported as a 502 — and the client shows a 502 as a transient
"connection lost" blip, not the real reason. Treat the duplicate as success:
record the subscription locally (the desired end state already holds; the next
resync fills in the resource id). Surface any other YouTube error as 422 with a
clear message, on both subscribe and unsubscribe, so it isn't mistaken for a
connection drop.
