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Tom FluxandClaude Opus 5 18bb2e420b Initial implementation of youtube-automate
A DVR for YouTube subscriptions, laid out so Jellyfin presents each channel
as a show and each video as an episode. Cron-driven, idempotent, with a
public admin UI for a non-operator.

Verified end to end on susan against three real channels: PO tokens, h264
downloads, Jellyfin resolution from local NFOs with all providers disabled,
retention and tombstones.

Corrections to the original design handover (specs.md documents each with
the evidence, and specs.handover-original.md preserves the original):

- The format sort selected 360p. Ranking acodec above res makes `bv*` prefer
  the combined 360p stream, which carries AAC, over the 720p video-only
  stream whose acodec is none. vcodec now leads, so a video without h264 at
  720p yields h264 lower down rather than VP9 this hardware cannot transcode.
- yt-dlp now requires a JS runtime and the yt-dlp-ejs solver scripts, which
  only ship with the [default] extra. Without them the n challenge fails and
  the mweb formats disappear entirely.
- --flat-playlist carries no upload dates, so the specced client-side date
  filter for backfill was impossible. Backfill is RSS-first.
- skipped_old was terminal, so raising a channel's retention appeared to do
  nothing. Added an explicit rescan.
- is_upcoming premieres now defer and retry instead of being skipped forever.
- TubeArchivist is gone, so the media root and the tube.jihakuz.xyz vhost
  were both reclaimed; the latter still pointed at its dead port.

240 offline tests, no network and no real yt-dlp invocation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-11 21:42:48 +01:00
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