Cut repeat traffic after bot checks, redesign video playlists, shuffle Home - #292
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…e Home A signed-in tester was refused with "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot". Signed-in probes showed account cookies cannot help: the stream clients reject them, and the clients that accept them cannot serve bytes without PO tokens. What Koda controls is how often it asks again. - A refusal that survives a fresh visitorData, or that NewPipe shares with the direct chain, records a three-minute verdict. Remint-and-retry, music error retries and queue skipping, music and Shorts prefetch and download re-attempts stand down; user taps still make requests. - The video and Shorts players no longer run a second NewPipe extraction after the first failed. - Home loads stand for ten minutes instead of refetching the whole account on every return, and the duplicate launch load joins the running one. - The video playlist page shares the music playlist page's construction via PlaylistPageStyle.kt. - Video search gains Today, a one-day after: window (probed live). - Channel sort chips are read from their new direct-chip shape. - With recommendations off, Home shuffles each followed channel's recent and Popular uploads instead of repeating the Subscriptions feed. Changelog: - Koda no longer keeps retrying, reminting or skipping through your queue when YouTube asks to confirm you're not a bot, which reduces the chance of being blocked. - Returning to Home no longer reloads your whole library and feeds each time. - Video playlists now have the same cover-led page as music playlists, with Play all, Shuffle, Save and Download. - Video search has a new Today upload-date filter. - Channel pages show the Latest, Popular and Oldest sort options again. - With video recommendations off, Home now shows a shuffled mix of old and new videos from the channels you follow.
Changelog: - Added a sleep timer to video playback settings, with timed and end-of-video modes. - Added Listen as music to video playback settings to move a video into the music player. - The expanded music player now keeps the screen on while playing. - Motion artwork now pauses with the music instead of dropping to the still cover.
Changelog: - Reworked video playback settings: quality and speed are now compact rows that expand inline, with autoplay, sleep timer and Listen as music in the same card.
Changelog: - Added a Music button to the video action bar that moves the video into the music player. - Channels in the subscriptions manager now open their channel page on tap. - Android Auto Library tiles now show artwork instead of broken-image placeholders.
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| val key = AutoArtwork.keyFromUri(uri) ?: throw FileNotFoundException(uri.toString()) | ||
| val context = context ?: throw FileNotFoundException(uri.toString()) | ||
| val file = AutoArtwork.fileFor(context, key) | ||
| return ParcelFileDescriptor.open(file, ParcelFileDescriptor.MODE_READ_ONLY) |
| require(key in TILE_HUES) { "unknown auto artwork key: $key" } | ||
| val dir = File(context.cacheDir, "auto-artwork").also { it.mkdirs() } | ||
| val file = File(dir, "$key.png") | ||
| if (!file.isFile) { |
| val dir = File(context.cacheDir, "auto-artwork").also { it.mkdirs() } | ||
| val file = File(dir, "$key.png") | ||
| if (!file.isFile) { | ||
| renderTile(key).compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 100, file.outputStream()) |
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Why
A signed-in tester hit "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot" after about an hour of normal use. Signed-in probes (
docs/youtube-data.md) showed account cookies cannot fix it:ANDROID_VR,IOSandVISIONOSreject cookie + SAPISIDHASH with HTTP 400 and ignore a bare Cookie header, whileMWEB/WEBaccept the account but googlevideo refuses their URLs without PO tokens. The refusal is a verdict on the network, so the fix is to stop Koda repeating it.What changed
Bot-check traffic
YouTubeRepository.isBotCheckVerdictActive(): armed when the direct chain is refused after a remint, or refused when NewPipe already threwSignInConfirmNotBotException. Lasts 3 minutes; any successful resolution clears it.getVideoStreamUrlfallback, which ran a second full NewPipe extraction after the first failed.Home reloads
Video playlist page
VideoPlaylistPage.kt, built like the music playlist page; shared colour helpers moved toPlaylistPageStyle.kt. 16:9 cover hero with first-video fallback, honest counts while paging, Play/Shuffle, Save/Download, connected rows, floating split play button.Video search: Today
VideoSearchDateFilter.TODAY=after:<yesterday>. Probed live:after:<today>leaked days-old results, and the native Todaysppadded sparse queries with year-old videos.Channel sort chips
ChannelSortChipsreads the new shape; the sheet parser stays as fallback.Shuffled Home (recommendations off)
SubscriptionMixbuilds pages from each followed channel's recent uploads and its Popular order (2:1 catalogue to recent), dedupes and spreads creators. Pages load 8 channels at a time, 4 fetches concurrently, and stand down during a 429 hold.Testing
compileDebugKotlin, fulltestDebugUnitTest(485 tests, new:VideoSearchFiltersTest,ChannelSortChipsTest,SubscriptionMixTest).Docs updated:
docs/youtube-data.md,docs/screens.md,docs/channels.md,docs/subscriptions.md,ROADMAP.md.