Some fixes #77

Schmiddiii commented 2026年05月23日 16:41:37 +02:00

Since about 2026年05月21日, YouTube seems to have changed something that breaks a few things in rustypipe.
This includes:

• Parsing when the video was uploaded and how many views the video had for most videos:
  This was caused by removing the channel-tag metadata for the videos (except for some, e.g. co-authored videos).
  The fix is checking how many metadata items there are; if there are two assume one is channel and the other uploaded/viewed, and if there is one assume only uploaded/viewed.
• Parsing duration was broken.
  This was caused by some renaming done for thumbnail overlays.
  Just apply the renaming to the rustypipe structs as well.

Since about 2026年05月21日, YouTube seems to have changed something that breaks a few things in rustypipe. This includes: - Parsing when the video was uploaded and how many views the video had for most videos: This was caused by removing the channel-tag metadata for the videos (except for some, e.g. co-authored videos). The fix is checking how many metadata items there are; if there are two assume one is channel and the other uploaded/viewed, and if there is one assume only uploaded/viewed. - Parsing duration was broken. This was caused by some renaming done for thumbnail overlays. Just apply the renaming to the rustypipe structs as well.

ThetaDev commented 2026年05月30日 18:26:00 +02:00

Thank you very much for your contribution. I did not have a lot of time in the last months and am just trying to catch up with YouTube's changes.

I have already almost completed the new deobf extraction, now I can also look at the changes to the YouTube data model.

Thank you very much for your contribution. I did not have a lot of time in the last months and am just trying to catch up with YouTube's changes. I have already almost completed the new deobf extraction, now I can also look at the changes to the YouTube data model.

Schmiddiii commented 2026年05月31日 09:26:54 +02:00

I did not have a lot of time in the last months and am just trying to catch up with YouTube's changes.

No problem.

I have already almost completed the new deobf extraction, now I can also look at the changes to the YouTube data model.

Just for reference, there are still two things I know that are broken from using this branch for a while:

• Description parsing for VideoItem is broken; VideoDetails still works though.
• Video titles are occasionally translated to other languages.

I didn't have time to look into either of those two, getting the uploaded date working was the most important one from my use-case.
I may attempt fixing those later, although I likely won't have time in the upcoming weeks.
If you are faster than me, feel free to try and fix it yourself when you look at the changes to the YouTube data model.

> I did not have a lot of time in the last months and am just trying to catch up with YouTube's changes. No problem. > I have already almost completed the new deobf extraction, now I can also look at the changes to the YouTube data model. Just for reference, there are still two things I know that are broken from using this branch for a while: - Description parsing for `VideoItem` is broken; `VideoDetails` still works though. - Video titles are occasionally translated to other languages. I didn't have time to look into either of those two, getting the uploaded date working was the most important one from my use-case. I may attempt fixing those later, although I likely won't have time in the upcoming weeks. If you are faster than me, feel free to try and fix it yourself when you look at the changes to the YouTube data model.

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