Prose + commands updated to the new name: brand reads "Catacomb", while
binary/path/package references are the lowercase `catacomb` (commands, deb/rpm
names, ~/.local/share/catacomb, catacomb.db, catacomb.desktop). Codeberg repo
URLs left pointing at the existing repo. Also folds in the pending doc edits
from earlier in the session.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Download management UI (web + desktop):
- Cancel a running job (SIGKILL, marked "cancelled" so it isn't auto-retried
and shows a distinct state rather than a misleading error class)
- Cancel a still-queued job before it starts
- Manually retry a failed/cancelled job (fresh auto-retry budget)
- Live speed · ETA · % on running jobs, parsed from the yt-dlp progress line
- Expandable full per-job log fetched on demand
New endpoints: POST /api/jobs/:idx/{cancel,retry}, GET /api/jobs/:idx/log,
DELETE /api/queued/:idx.
Perceptual-dedup off-switch:
- backup.dedup_enabled (default true) hard-disables the "similar content"
scan in both UIs; the web scan endpoint returns {disabled:true} and the
desktop scan no-ops with a note. Wired through all five settings touchpoints.
Docs: README seeking note + ROADMAP recently-shipped updates for the prior
seekable-playback / federation / auto-tagging work.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Configure peers as [[remote]] entries (name, url, optional password) and
browse their libraries from this instance, read-only.
- remote.rs: RemoteClient (blocking reqwest + rustls + cookie jar). Fetches
the peer's /api/library, logging in first if the peer has a password and
retrying on a 401. Media is not proxied: the library JSON's media URLs
(/files/, /music-files/, /api/transcode/, /api/sub-vtt/) are rewritten to
absolute peer URLs with the peer's read-only feed token appended, so video
streams straight from the peer to the browser/mpv while only the small JSON
passes through us.
- web.rs: auth_middleware now also accepts the feed token for GET
/api/transcode/ and /api/sub-vtt/ (read-only media, same class as /files/),
so a transcoded peer streams remotely. New GET /api/remotes and
/api/remotes/:id/library (the RemoteClient runs under spawn_blocking).
- web UI: a 🌐 Remotes sidebar switcher; remote mode is read-only (hides the
download bar + per-card mutating actions, keeps Play).
- desktop: a 🌐 Remotes screen that fetches a peer's library off-thread and
plays via mpv on the tokenized URL.
- config.rs: [[remote]] section list; reqwest dep added (rustls/blocking/
cookies, no system OpenSSL).
Verified end-to-end against a second local instance, including a transcoded
stream returning HTTP 200 via the token. ROADMAP 3.5 + CLAUDE.md updated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Several related UI and startup fixes from one session:
- Web grid: channel and music views rendered in a single column because
their content was wrapped in one nested div that became a single cell of
the outer CSS grid. Span the wrappers (and .empty) across all columns
with grid-column:1/-1.
- Subtitles: route every track through /api/sub-vtt and strip per-cue
position/alignment settings (align:start position:0% etc.) from both SRT
and VTT, so auto-generated captions render centered instead of left-
aligned. New strip_cue_settings/normalize_vtt + sub_vtt_url helpers.
- Comment downloads: add a global backup.fetch_comments toggle (the
per-channel option already existed; it's now a tri-state override that
defers to the global). Full five-touchpoint wiring across config,
download_options, the downloader's apply_comments resolver, both UIs'
global + per-channel controls, and downloader seeding.
- Desktop startup: run the initial library scan + search-index sync on a
background thread (mirrors the web server's deferred bind) so the window
appears immediately instead of blocking on a cold-cache scan; update()
swaps the library in when it lands.
- Perceptual dedup: cap worker threads via fingerprint::default_workers()
(~half the cores, always leaving at least one free) instead of using
every core, so the hashing pass doesn't starve the UI.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Comment viewer (web UI): the flat tree gains search (highlight + keep
ancestor context), sort (threaded / top / newest / oldest), per-thread
collapse/expand with collapse-all/expand-all, an OP badge for the
uploader, and a "new since last visit" highlight + count (localStorage
per-video timestamp). API now returns each comment's `timestamp` and
`author_is_uploader`.
SponsorBlock: was a hardcoded `--sponsorblock-mark all`. Now a real
setting (off / mark / remove) with a per-channel override, threaded
through the full five touchpoints — config `[backup].sponsorblock_mode`
(default "mark", preserving prior behavior), DownloadOptions override,
a downloader resolver (apply_sponsorblock), and both UIs (egui Settings
+ channel dialog; web Settings modal + channel dialog + SettingsPayload).
Integration tests extended: settings round-trip asserts the sponsorblock
default + persistence; channel-options round-trip asserts the override.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The card-density slider only resized the channel-grid cards — the
sidebar, settings, detail panel, and all text stayed fixed. Add a real
global scale that grows/shrinks the *entire* UI crisply.
egui already handles Ctrl + / Ctrl - / Ctrl 0 via zoom_factor (it
re-rasterizes fonts rather than bitmap-stretching), but it wasn't
persisted and had no visible control. Now:
- New `[ui] ui_scale` config (default 1.0), applied with
set_zoom_factor at startup.
- update() mirrors ctx.zoom_factor() back into config each frame and
saves on a 500ms debounce, so both the slider and the built-in
keyboard zoom persist across restarts without writing config.toml
every frame of a drag.
- A "UI scale" slider (0.5–3.0×) + Reset button in the Settings screen,
driving set_zoom_factor live.
The card-density "Size:" slider stays as a separate grid-density
preference (it composes with the global zoom). 95 tests pass; GUI
verified running with the per-frame zoom-sync path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Post-download ffmpeg pass with three modes, global + per-channel.
Closes the last real Tartube parity gap.
## Modes
- remux-mp4: fast container change mkv→mp4 (stream-copy video, aac audio)
- h264-mp4: re-encode to H.264/AAC at a configurable CRF + x264 preset
- audio: extract to mp3 / m4a / opus / flac
## Design (separate ffmpeg pass)
The main download adds `--print after_move:CONVERT_PATH:%(filepath)s`
when conversion is active. poll() scans freshly-Done download jobs for
those lines and enqueues a distinct ffmpeg transcode Job per finished
file — so the UI shows transcoding as its own phase. On success the
source is renamed to <name>.original.<ext> (keep_original) or deleted;
the converted file lands next to it. Transcodes don't auto-retry and
don't themselves convert (no infinite loop).
## Config
New [convert] section (mode / crf / preset / audio_format /
keep_original) + per-channel DownloadOptions.convert_mode override
(None = defer to global, "off" = force-disable for that channel).
ConvertSpec::resolve merges them; CRF 0→23, empty preset→medium, empty
audio→mp3 defaults.
## UI
Desktop + web: a "Format conversion (global defaults)" Settings section
with mode-dependent rows (CRF/preset for h264, format for audio, keep-
original toggle), and a per-channel Convert dropdown in the channel-
options dialog.
Verified: all three ffmpeg modes produce valid output on a real library
file (remux instant, h264 CRF23 ~12s for a 3.4min clip, mp3 extraction);
settings round-trip (global → config.toml [convert] → echo; per-channel
override saves + reads back). 4 resolver tests; 95 pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
YouTube's bot-detection cracks down on different player clients over
time — the `web` client gets captcha-walled, then later `tv`/`mweb` are
the safe ones, etc. Let the user route around whichever client is
currently being targeted instead of being stuck with yt-dlp's pick.
- New backup.youtube_player_clients config (comma-separated, blank =
yt-dlp default). Maps to --extractor-args youtube:player_client=…
- Per-channel DownloadOptions.youtube_player_clients override (None =
defer to global). Resolved in the downloader's apply_player_client,
which omits the flag entirely when empty so yt-dlp keeps its default
client set (the recommended baseline).
- Threaded into the live downloader at construction + settings save
(app + web).
UI: a "YouTube player clients" field in both global Settings (desktop +
web) and the per-channel options dialog, with hints pointing at
"tv,mweb" as the current least-bot-checked combo for captcha-prone
channels.
Verified the settings round-trip (global persists to config + echoes;
per-channel override saves + reads back). 87 tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds full subtitle control (backend + desktop UI; web UI follows).
## Model
- New [subtitles] config section: enabled / auto_generated / embed /
format / langs. Sensible defaults (subs on, auto on, no embed/convert,
all langs).
- DownloadOptions gains per-channel Option overrides: subtitles_enabled,
subtitles_auto, subtitles_embed, subtitle_format (subtitle_langs
already existed). None = defer to global.
## Resolver
- Downloader gains subtitle_defaults (the global section) + a single
apply_subtitle_flags() that merges global + per-channel and emits the
yt-dlp flags (--write-subs / --write-auto-subs / --sub-langs /
--convert-subs / --embed-subs). Disabled = emit nothing.
- Replaces the hardcoded --write-subs --write-auto-subs at the main
download + repair builders. Moved the --sub-langs emission out of
DownloadOptions::apply into the resolver so global + override merge in
one place.
## Desktop UI
- Settings screen: "Subtitles (global defaults)" section.
- Channel-options dialog: tri-state (Default/On/Off) combos for each
override + a convert-format field.
## Wiring
- subtitle_defaults seeded at Downloader construction (app + web) and
refreshed on settings save (desktop).
4 resolver tests cover global defaults, disabled, global format/embed/
langs, and per-channel override-wins. 84 pass.
Web UI rows are the remaining piece (next commit).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
YouTube increasingly requires a per-video Proof-of-Origin token bound
to each video ID before handing back format URLs. Without one, yt-dlp
sees empty formats and downloads fail. The upstream solution is the
Brainicism bgutil-ytdlp-pot-provider Python plugin paired with a
long-running server that mints tokens via BotGuard.
We integrate the Rust port (jim60105/bgutil-ytdlp-pot-provider-rs) so
the server is a single static binary, no Node.js required.
## Architecture
- bgutil-pot binary lives alongside the bundled deno + yt-dlp at
~/.local/share/yt-offline/bin/bgutil-pot.
- The matching Python plugin is pip-installed into the bundled venv:
python -m pip install bgutil-ytdlp-pot-provider.
- Downloader spawns the server lazily on first job (port 4416,
loopback only) and kills it on Drop.
- Each yt-dlp invocation gets
--extractor-args "youtubepot-bgutilhttp:base_url=http://127.0.0.1:4416"
appended in spawn_job when use_pot_provider is on and the server
child is alive.
## UX
- Settings → "POT token provider" row with toggle + Install/Update
button (mirrors the bundled yt-dlp row).
- Disabled unless use_bundled_ytdlp is also on (plugin lives in that
venv).
- Refuses install if the bundled yt-dlp venv isn't there yet, with a
helpful 428 error.
## Lifecycle
- Lazy spawn: ensure_pot_server() runs at the top of start() so the
server is up before yt-dlp queries the plugin.
- Drop: kill_server() on Downloader drop so we don't leave an orphaned
process bound to 4416.
- start_pot_provider_update() kills the running child first so the
install can overwrite the binary in place (no ETXTBSY).
3 new unit tests cover URL/extractor-args formatting; 77 total pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Make ui.minimize_to_tray default-off so users on desktops without a
working StatusNotifier host (GNOME sans AppIndicator extension being
the common case) don't get stuck — without an opt-in, clicking X
would hide an invisible window with no obvious way back.
The tray menu's Show/Hide/Quit and Ctrl+Q still work regardless of
the flag; the toggle only affects what happens when the user clicks
the window's close button.
Added a settings-screen checkbox for the flag with a tooltip explaining
the SNI dependency.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bug fixes
- Desktop auto-rescan: snapshot was_running before check_notifications
updates prev_job_states, so the post-download rescan actually fires.
- web::run shutdown: replace `let _ = tx;` (which dropped the sender
immediately and short-circuited the shutdown select!) with
std::mem::forget(tx); add an idle fallback so the `-> !` is honored.
- /api/preview now resolves the bundled yt-dlp path and extends PATH
for deno discovery, matching the rest of the downloader.
- Scheduler interval clamped to >=1h on read so a manually-edited
config.toml with 0 hours can't trigger every tick.
- maintenance::is_within canonicalizes the parent + filename when the
target is missing; remove_files treats NotFound as success.
Security
- Session tokens stored with issued-at Instant and pruned past 30 day
TTL on every touch (was: unbounded HashSet).
- Login rate-limited per source IP: 5 failures → 60s lockout (429).
- Secure cookie flag added when X-Forwarded-Proto: https is present.
- 4 MiB body size cap via DefaultBodyLimit.
- Security headers middleware: CSP, X-Content-Type-Options,
X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy.
- JS safeUrl() defangs javascript:/vbscript:/data:text URLs before
interpolation into src= attributes.
- Bundled yt-dlp install verifies SHA-256 against the release's
SHA2-256SUMS; deno hash printed for visual inspection. Install also
reports byte counts every 3s so users see live progress.
- yt-offline.db chmod 0600 at open time on Unix.
New features
- Bundled yt-dlp + deno mode: settings toggle (System/Bundled) plus
one-click Install/Update from settings. Ensures executable bit on
every launch in case the install chmod was missed.
- Download queue with configurable max_concurrent (1–10); pending
jobs surfaced in both UIs.
- Music download mode: --extract-audio into music/<artist>/, separate
sidebar entry, /api/music + /music-files/ endpoints, inline <audio>.
- Download quality selector: Best / 1080p / 720p / 480p / 360p.
- Sort videos by Newest / Oldest (upload_date from info.json with
release_date fallback).
- Plex metadata: per-episode .nfo (title, season/episode, aired,
runtime, plot from .description), <stem>-thumb.jpg symlink, and
show-level tvshow.nfo.
- yt-dlp retry/throttle defaults: --retries 30 --fragment-retries 30
--retry-sleep linear=1:30:2 --sleep-requests 1 to ride out the
"Connection reset by peer" failures.
Performance
- password_required cached in AtomicBool; refreshed only on password
change. Eliminates a SQLite query per static-file fetch.
- Job::log → VecDeque for O(1) front-pop instead of O(n) drain.
- Library scan parallelized across cores via stdlib parallel_map.
- Web UI poll: 600ms while active, 5s when idle, 2s after errors.
- Music scan now recursive (Artist/Album/Track.opus).
- percent_encode_segment uses write! to avoid per-byte String allocs.
Code quality
- 27 unit tests covering parse_progress, parse_stem, extract_after,
detect_url_kind, srt_to_vtt, count_cookies, percent_encode_segment,
bind_mode_of, hash_password, lang_label, is_within, sanitize,
year_of, aired_date, xml_escape.
- Unified library::find_video + Channel::all_videos() iterator,
replacing three duplicated linear searches.
- Downloader::browser wired to --cookies-from-browser as a fallback
when no cookies.txt is present.
- mpv detection now matches the binary basename, not substring.
- Settings modal scroll fix; web settings expose all new fields.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Full-scan download toggle: omits --break-on-existing so all unarchived
videos are fetched regardless of order, filling gaps in partial archives
- Filter "Aborting remaining downloads" from job logs (break-on-existing noise)
- Password hash moved from config.toml to SQLite settings table; survives
git checkouts and rebuilds. config.toml and yt-offline.db added to .gitignore;
config auto-generated on first run if absent
- Channel re-check URLs derived from folder name (/@handle or /channel/UCxxx)
instead of info.json's canonical channel_url, preventing duplicate UCxxx folders
- SRT subtitles detected by library scanner and served via /api/sub-vtt/* endpoint
that converts to WebVTT on the fly; browser <track> element can now play them
- Cookie clear button in both desktop and web UI (DELETE /api/cookies)
- Per-job X close button on finished download jobs in desktop GUI
- Fix widget ID clash when multiple download jobs are shown (push_id per job)
- Watched videos excluded from Continue Watching list and badge count
- settings table added to SQLite schema (key/value store)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Features:
- Port all 7 desktop themes (Dracula, Trans, Emo variants, etc.) to the web UI
- Configurable bind interface (localhost/Tailscale/LAN/all) with detected IPs,
settable from both the web UI and desktop GUI
- Optional password that gates the whole UI and all API access via session
cookies (Argon2), with a login page, logout, and middleware; settable from
both UIs
- Library maintenance: scan for duplicate video IDs and missing assets
(thumbnail/info.json/description), remove duplicates (scan-and-confirm, with
out-of-library path guard), and re-fetch missing sidecars via yt-dlp.
Surfaced in both the web UI and a desktop GUI window.
Optimizations / cleanup:
- Cache has_chapters at scan time (library.rs) instead of re-reading and
parsing every info.json on each /api/library request
- Use the cached channel size in get_library
- Pool a single SQLite connection in WebState instead of opening one per request
- Remove a 1.2 GB stray nested src/yt-offline duplicate tree
Fixes:
- Rescan no longer clears all thumbnail textures (caused thumbnails to unload);
prune only removed entries and bump library_generation so the card grid
refreshes correctly
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
License:
- GPL3 → AGPL3
New features:
- Web interface (--web [port]): axum/tokio server with SSE progress, library browser,
download trigger, watched toggle; embedded single-page HTML/JS UI
- Desktop notifications via notify-rust when downloads complete or fail
- Continue Watching sidebar entry showing videos with saved resume positions
- Bulk select mode: select multiple videos, mark all watched/unwatched at once
- Storage stats: channel disk usage shown in sidebar next to video count
- Scheduled channel checks: configurable interval (hours), auto re-downloads all
tracked channels using channel_url from info.json; enabled in Settings
Theme fixes:
- Scene Queen: remove override_text_color so active button text uses fg_stroke
(dark navy on neon green) instead of near-white — fixes unreadable contrast
- Trans: override_text_color → hot pink #cc0066 for pink-tinted text throughout
Settings additions:
- Auto-check channels toggle + interval_hours DragValue
- Web UI port setting
Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- SQLite DB for watched/position persistence (database.rs)
- Mark watched toggle on cards and detail panel
- mpv IPC socket integration for resume position tracking (unix)
- Sort by title, duration, file size
- Thumbnail density slider in top bar
- Channel metadata banner (subscriber count, uploader, channel URL)
- Cookie browser selector dropdown in settings
- Auto-rescan library when a download job finishes
- Fix yt-dlp --no-progress-bar flag (does not exist; removed)
- Browser field wired through config → downloader
Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
