// What a channel's videos are CALLED, for the editor's per-channel video list // and the video page — without downloading anything and without walking the // corpus. // // Three sources, cheapest first, first hit wins: // // 1. "index" — the LMDB `sums` sub-DB (TranscriptSummary.title), read by a // key range over `byChannel` for this one channel. Covers the // videos the index admitted, i.e. those with a // metadata.info.json on disk at the last build. // 2. "scan" — channels//metadata-scan.json (metadataScanStore.ts): // listed-but-undownloaded videos, only after a metadata scan. // ONE file read for the whole channel. // 3. "metadata" — data//metadata.info.json, for the remainder only // (downloaded after the last index build, or a directory // name that is not the index's metadata id — see below). A // head read per id, not a full parse: some of these files // are hundreds of KB. // // THE INDEX IS KEYED BY METADATA ID, THE LIST BY DIRECTORY NAME. On most // channels they are the same string; on Rumble the directory is the URL slug // and the metadata id is the embed id (recencyIndex.ts's layer-1 comment). A // miss there is not wrong, it just falls through to source 3 and costs a file // read. Nothing is matched fuzzily, so a title is never attributed to the // wrong video. // // Read-only throughout: the index is opened `readOnly`, the scan store through // its own loader, and no video directory is created (the scan store's // invariant). import { existsSync } from "node:fs"; import { open as openFile, readdir, stat } from "node:fs/promises"; import path from "node:path"; import { open } from "lmdb"; import type { Paths } from "../lib/paths"; import type { TranscriptSummary } from "../lib/transcripts"; import { loadRawMetadataFromDir } from "../lib/transcripts-server"; import { mapConcurrent } from "../lib/concurrency"; import { loadMetadataScan } from "./metadataScanStore"; export type VideoTitleSource = "index" | "scan" | "metadata"; export type VideoTitle = { title: string; source: VideoTitleSource }; // buildIndex.ts's key shapes: sums is [uploadDate, slug, id], byChannel is // [slug, uploadDate, id]. type IndexKey = [string, string, string]; type ChannelKey = [string, string, string]; // yt-dlp writes `"id"` then `"title"` first in metadata.info.json, so 16 KB of // head finds the top-level title without reading the formats/subtitles tail. const HEAD_BYTES = 16384; const TITLE_RE = /"title":\s*("(?:[^"\\]|\\.)*")/; const METADATA_READ_CONCURRENCY = 16; function channelDataDir(paths: Paths, slug: string): string { return path.join(paths.channelsDir, slug, "data"); } // Source 1. Never throws: a missing, locked or mid-rebuild index is "no // titles from the index", and the other two sources carry on. function readIndexTitles( paths: Paths, slug: string, wanted: ReadonlySet, out: Map, ): void { if (wanted.size === 0 || !existsSync(paths.lmdbPath)) return; let root: ReturnType; try { // `compression: true` is not optional on a reader: buildIndex writes with // it, and without it every value over ~1 KB (any real description) throws // on decode. See curatedTagsPreview.ts's openIndex. root = open({ path: paths.lmdbPath, readOnly: true, maxDbs: 18, compression: true, }); } catch { return; } try { const sums = root.openDB({ name: "sums", encoding: "msgpack", }); const byChannel = root.openDB({ name: "byChannel", encoding: "msgpack", }); // Key-only walk of this channel's range; a summary is decoded only for an // id the caller asked about. for (const { key } of byChannel.getRange({ start: [slug], end: [slug, "￿"], })) { const ck = key as ChannelKey; if (ck[0] !== slug) break; const id = ck[2]; if (!wanted.has(id) || out.has(id)) continue; const summary = sums.get([ck[1], ck[0], id]); const title = summary?.title; // summarize() falls back to the id when the metadata had no title — that // is not a title, so leave the id for a later source. if (typeof title === "string" && title.trim() && title !== id) { out.set(id, { title, source: "index" }); } } } catch { // A partial read is still useful; whatever landed in `out` stands. } finally { void root.close().catch(() => {}); } } // Source 3, one id. A head read and a regex; a full parse only when the head // did not contain a title (an unusual key order, or a pretty-printer that put // it later). async function readMetadataTitle(videoDir: string): Promise { const file = path.join(videoDir, "metadata.info.json"); let head: string; try { const fh = await openFile(file, "r"); try { const buf = Buffer.alloc(HEAD_BYTES); const { bytesRead } = await fh.read(buf, 0, HEAD_BYTES, 0); head = buf.subarray(0, bytesRead).toString("utf8"); } finally { await fh.close(); } } catch { return null; } const m = TITLE_RE.exec(head); if (m) { try { const t = JSON.parse(m[1]) as unknown; if (typeof t === "string" && t.trim()) return t; } catch { // fall through to the full parse } } const meta = await loadRawMetadataFromDir(videoDir); return typeof meta?.title === "string" && meta.title.trim() ? meta.title : null; } // --- The source-3 memo -------------------------------------------------------- // // WHY: on a channel whose directory names never match the index (Rumble: dir = // URL slug, index key = embed id; legacy `YYYYMMDD_` dirs) EVERY row falls // through to a metadata.info.json read, and the list page re-renders on every // row click (force-dynamic, rows are `?video=` links). the-quartering-rumble has // 8,049 such dirs: 5,024 ms cold / 224 ms warm per render, measured 2026-09-25. // // Per channel, keyed by the `data/` directory's mtime: adding or removing a // video dir changes it, and the entry is then REBASED rather than dropped — the // titles of the dirs still there carry over (one readdir, no file reads), and // only the new dirs are read (release 8 review, V: a busy download lane adds a // dir every few minutes, and each one used to re-read all 8,049). Rewriting a // metadata.info.json INSIDE an existing dir does not — accepted, because a // video's title does not change after download. Misses (no file yet, e.g. a dir // mid-download) are NOT memoized, so a title that lands later is picked up. // Held on globalThis because Next can load this module more than once. const MEMO_MAX_CHANNELS = 64; type TitleMemoEntry = { dataDirMtimeMs: number; titles: Map }; declare global { var __yttVideoTitleMemo__: Map | undefined; } function titleMemo(): Map { return (globalThis.__yttVideoTitleMemo__ ??= new Map()); } // For tests and the e2e reset (api/test/invalidate-cache). export function resetVideoTitleMemo(): void { globalThis.__yttVideoTitleMemo__ = undefined; } // Test hook: metadata.info.json reads so far in this process (tests diff it). let metadataReads = 0; export function videoTitleMetadataReadCount(): number { return metadataReads; } async function memoForChannel( key: string, dataDir: string, ): Promise | null> { let mtimeMs: number; try { mtimeMs = (await stat(dataDir)).mtimeMs; } catch { return null; // no data/ — nothing to read, nothing to memoize } const memo = titleMemo(); let entry = memo.get(key); if (!entry) { entry = { dataDirMtimeMs: mtimeMs, titles: new Map() }; } else if (entry.dataDirMtimeMs !== mtimeMs) { // Keep the titles of the dirs that are still there; a removed dir's title // goes with it, so a re-listed id falls through to the other sources. let present: Set | null = null; try { present = new Set(await readdir(dataDir)); } catch { present = null; } const kept = new Map(); if (present) { for (const [id, title] of entry.titles) { if (present.has(id)) kept.set(id, title); } } entry = { dataDirMtimeMs: mtimeMs, titles: kept }; } // Re-insert so iteration order is least-recently-used first. memo.delete(key); memo.set(key, entry); while (memo.size > MEMO_MAX_CHANNELS) { const oldest = memo.keys().next().value; if (oldest === undefined) break; memo.delete(oldest); } return entry.titles; } // Titles for `ids` of one channel. An id with no title from any source is // absent from the map — the caller shows the id. export async function readChannelVideoTitles( paths: Paths, channelSlug: string, ids: readonly string[], ): Promise> { const out = new Map(); if (ids.length === 0) return out; const wanted = new Set(ids); readIndexTitles(paths, channelSlug, wanted, out); if (out.size < wanted.size) { const scan = await loadMetadataScan(paths, channelSlug); for (const id of wanted) { if (out.has(id)) continue; const title = scan.entries[id]?.title; if (title && title.trim()) out.set(id, { title, source: "scan" }); } } let remainder = [...wanted].filter((id) => !out.has(id)); if (remainder.length > 0) { const dataDir = channelDataDir(paths, channelSlug); const memo = await memoForChannel(dataDir, dataDir); if (!memo) return out; remainder = remainder.filter((id) => { const title = memo.get(id); if (title === undefined) return true; out.set(id, { title, source: "metadata" }); return false; }); const titles = await mapConcurrent( remainder, METADATA_READ_CONCURRENCY, (id) => { metadataReads++; return readMetadataTitle(path.join(dataDir, id)); }, ); remainder.forEach((id, i) => { const title = titles[i]; if (title) { memo.set(id, title); out.set(id, { title, source: "metadata" }); } }); } return out; } export type VideoDisplayMetadata = { title?: string; description?: string; webpageUrl?: string; uploader?: string; uploadDate?: string; duration?: number; // "metadata" = data//metadata.info.json; "scan" = the channel's // metadata-scan.json entry (a listed video that was never downloaded); // "none" = neither exists, and the page shows the bare id. source: "metadata" | "scan" | "none"; }; function str(v: unknown): string | undefined { return typeof v === "string" && v !== "" ? v : undefined; } // The video page's header. metadata.info.json first — it is what the download // wrote and carries the uploader and URL — else the scan entry. export async function readVideoMetadataForDisplay( paths: Paths, channelSlug: string, id: string, ): Promise { const meta = await loadRawMetadataFromDir( path.join(channelDataDir(paths, channelSlug), id), ); if (meta) { return { title: str(meta.title), description: str(meta.description), webpageUrl: str(meta.webpage_url), uploader: str(meta.uploader), uploadDate: str(meta.upload_date), duration: typeof meta.duration === "number" && Number.isFinite(meta.duration) ? meta.duration : undefined, source: "metadata", }; } const scan = await loadMetadataScan(paths, channelSlug); const entry = scan.entries[id]; if (entry) { return { title: str(entry.title), description: str(entry.description), uploadDate: str(entry.uploadDate), duration: entry.duration, source: "scan", }; } return { source: "none" }; }