Using the full artist name with Unicode symbols (e.g. ☆NoAki☆) in ytsearch
caused YouTube to return 0-1 completely irrelevant results, letting wrong songs
fall through to the no-filter fallback. Strip only \p{S} (Unicode symbol chars
like ☆ ★ ♥) but keep ASCII punctuation — so N!GHT stays "N!GHT" (important for
disambiguation) while ☆NoAki☆ becomes "NoAki" (searchable).
YTM URL still uses the original artist name with all chars intact.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Use mainArtist (with special chars) for ytsearch queries so e.g. "N!GHT - Yume"
searches correctly instead of "NGHT - Yume" which YouTube misreads as "night"
and returns ambience videos.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- YTM URL now uses unstripped artist name (e.g. "N!GHT" instead of "NGHT") for
better search ranking on YouTube Music
- Steps 1-2 of cascade now include a soft channel ~= filter using the artist's
first word, preventing wrong-artist songs with matching titles from being
downloaded (e.g. a different "Moonlight" for N!GHT)
- Steps 3+ drop the channel filter so label-hosted tracks still get found
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- ytdlp.js: use \b word boundaries in all variant filter regexes so that
partial matches like "nightcoreals" containing "nightcore" no longer
falsely reject official videos; also fixes sped regression (!~= \bsped\b
instead of the too-narrow "sped up" pattern)
- squid.js: restructure verify payload to mirror challenge response layout
{ parameters, solution: { number, derivedKey }, signature }
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- squid.js: add top-level signature from challenge response to verify payload
(server added signature validation, causing HTTP 400 without it)
- ytdlp.js: switch variant filter from !*= to !~= (?i) so Remix/REMIX/remix
are all rejected, not just lowercase
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- ytdlp.js: watch for [youtube:tab] in yt-dlp output during flat-playlist step;
return [] when channel expansion is detected so cascade falls through to ytsearch
- Revert player.js / main.js / state.js PWA _changingTrack changes (not effective)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
--match-filter 'webpage_url !*= /browse/' was applied to individual videos
AFTER yt-dlp expanded an artist channel into its uploads playlist — by then
each video had a /watch?v= URL, so the filter never fired.
New approach: run yt-dlp --flat-playlist --print webpage_url first to get
the raw search result URLs, filter /browse/ entries in Node.js, then pass
only the actual watch?v= video URLs to yt-dlp for download with --max-downloads 1.
The channel is never expanded; we get the real song from the search results.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
HoneyandClaude Sonnet 4.6