"""YouTube search and transcript extraction via yt-dlp for /last30days v2.1. Uses yt-dlp (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp) for both YouTube search and transcript extraction. No API keys needed — just have yt-dlp installed. Inspired by Peter Steinberger's toolchain approach (yt-dlp + summarize CLI). """ import json import math import os import re import signal import shutil import subprocess import sys import tempfile from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor, as_completed from pathlib import Path from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Set, Tuple # Depth configurations: how many videos to search / transcribe DEPTH_CONFIG = { "quick": 10, "default": 20, "deep": 40, } TRANSCRIPT_LIMITS = { "quick": 3, "default": 5, "deep": 8, } # Max words to keep from each transcript TRANSCRIPT_MAX_WORDS = 500 from .relevance import token_overlap_relevance as _compute_relevance def _log(msg: str): """Log to stderr.""" sys.stderr.write(f"[YouTube] {msg}\n") sys.stderr.flush() def is_ytdlp_installed() -> bool: """Check if yt-dlp is available in PATH.""" return shutil.which("yt-dlp") is not None def _extract_core_subject(topic: str) -> str: """Extract core subject from verbose query for YouTube search. NOTE: 'tips', 'tricks', 'tutorial', 'guide', 'review', 'reviews' are intentionally KEPT — they're YouTube content types that improve search. """ from .query import extract_core_subject # YouTube-specific noise set: smaller than default, keeps content-type words _YT_NOISE = frozenset({ 'best', 'top', 'good', 'great', 'awesome', 'killer', 'latest', 'new', 'news', 'update', 'updates', 'trending', 'hottest', 'popular', 'viral', 'practices', 'features', 'recommendations', 'advice', 'prompt', 'prompts', 'prompting', 'methods', 'strategies', 'approaches', }) return extract_core_subject(topic, noise=_YT_NOISE) def search_youtube( topic: str, from_date: str, to_date: str, depth: str = "default", ) -> Dict[str, Any]: """Search YouTube via yt-dlp. No API key needed. Args: topic: Search topic from_date: Start date (YYYY-MM-DD) to_date: End date (YYYY-MM-DD) depth: 'quick', 'default', or 'deep' Returns: Dict with 'items' list of video metadata dicts. """ if not is_ytdlp_installed(): return {"items": [], "error": "yt-dlp not installed"} count = DEPTH_CONFIG.get(depth, DEPTH_CONFIG["default"]) core_topic = _extract_core_subject(topic) _log(f"Searching YouTube for '{core_topic}' (since {from_date}, count={count})") # yt-dlp search with full metadata (no --flat-playlist so dates are real). # NOTE: --dateafter intentionally omitted — YouTube search returns # relevance-sorted results and strict date filtering returns 0 for # evergreen topics. Python soft filter (below) handles date filtering. cmd = [ "yt-dlp", f"ytsearch{count}:{core_topic}", "--dump-json", "--no-warnings", "--no-download", ] preexec = os.setsid if hasattr(os, 'setsid') else None try: proc = subprocess.Popen( cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, text=True, preexec_fn=preexec, ) try: stdout, stderr = proc.communicate(timeout=120) except subprocess.TimeoutExpired: try: os.killpg(os.getpgid(proc.pid), signal.SIGTERM) except (ProcessLookupError, PermissionError, OSError): proc.kill() proc.wait(timeout=5) _log("YouTube search timed out (120s)") return {"items": [], "error": "Search timed out"} except FileNotFoundError: return {"items": [], "error": "yt-dlp not found"} if not (stdout or "").strip(): _log("YouTube search returned 0 results") return {"items": []} # Parse JSON-per-line output items = [] for line in stdout.strip().split("\n"): line = line.strip() if not line: continue try: video = json.loads(line) except json.JSONDecodeError: continue video_id = video.get("id", "") view_count = video.get("view_count") or 0 like_count = video.get("like_count") or 0 comment_count = video.get("comment_count") or 0 upload_date = video.get("upload_date", "") # YYYYMMDD # Convert YYYYMMDD to YYYY-MM-DD date_str = None if upload_date and len(upload_date) == 8: date_str = f"{upload_date[:4]}-{upload_date[4:6]}-{upload_date[6:8]}" items.append({ "video_id": video_id, "title": video.get("title", ""), "url": f"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v={video_id}", "channel_name": video.get("channel", video.get("uploader", "")), "date": date_str, "engagement": { "views": view_count, "likes": like_count, "comments": comment_count, }, "duration": video.get("duration"), "relevance": _compute_relevance(core_topic, video.get("title", "")), "why_relevant": f"YouTube: {video.get('title', core_topic)[:60]}", }) # Soft date filter: prefer recent items but fall back to all if too few recent = [i for i in items if i["date"] and i["date"] >= from_date] if len(recent) >= 3: items = recent _log(f"Found {len(items)} videos within date range") else: _log(f"Found {len(items)} videos ({len(recent)} within date range, keeping all)") # Sort by views descending items.sort(key=lambda x: x["engagement"]["views"], reverse=True) return {"items": items} def _clean_vtt(vtt_text: str) -> str: """Convert VTT subtitle format to clean plaintext.""" # Strip VTT header text = re.sub(r'^WEBVTT.*?\n\n', '', vtt_text, flags=re.DOTALL) # Strip timestamps text = re.sub(r'\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}\.\d{3}\s*-->\s*\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}\.\d{3}.*\n', '', text) # Strip position/alignment tags text = re.sub(r'<[^>]+>', '', text) # Strip cue numbers text = re.sub(r'^\d+\s*$', '', text, flags=re.MULTILINE) # Deduplicate overlapping lines lines = text.strip().split('\n') seen = set() unique = [] for line in lines: stripped = line.strip() if stripped and stripped not in seen: seen.add(stripped) unique.append(stripped) return re.sub(r'\s+', ' ', ' '.join(unique)).strip() def fetch_transcript(video_id: str, temp_dir: str) -> Optional[str]: """Fetch auto-generated transcript for a YouTube video. Args: video_id: YouTube video ID temp_dir: Temporary directory for subtitle files Returns: Plaintext transcript string, or None if no captions available. """ cmd = [ "yt-dlp", "--write-auto-subs", "--sub-lang", "en", "--sub-format", "vtt", "--skip-download", "--no-warnings", "-o", f"{temp_dir}/%(id)s", f"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v={video_id}", ] preexec = os.setsid if hasattr(os, 'setsid') else None try: proc = subprocess.Popen( cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, text=True, preexec_fn=preexec, ) try: proc.communicate(timeout=30) except subprocess.TimeoutExpired: try: os.killpg(os.getpgid(proc.pid), signal.SIGTERM) except (ProcessLookupError, PermissionError, OSError): proc.kill() proc.wait(timeout=5) return None except FileNotFoundError: return None # yt-dlp may save as .en.vtt or .en-orig.vtt vtt_path = Path(temp_dir) / f"{video_id}.en.vtt" if not vtt_path.exists(): # Try alternate naming for p in Path(temp_dir).glob(f"{video_id}*.vtt"): vtt_path = p break else: return None try: raw = vtt_path.read_text(encoding="utf-8", errors="replace") except OSError: return None transcript = _clean_vtt(raw) # Truncate to max words words = transcript.split() if len(words) > TRANSCRIPT_MAX_WORDS: transcript = ' '.join(words[:TRANSCRIPT_MAX_WORDS]) + '...' return transcript if transcript else None def fetch_transcripts_parallel( video_ids: List[str], max_workers: int = 5, ) -> Dict[str, Optional[str]]: """Fetch transcripts for multiple videos in parallel. Args: video_ids: List of YouTube video IDs max_workers: Max parallel fetches Returns: Dict mapping video_id to transcript text (or None). """ if not video_ids: return {} _log(f"Fetching transcripts for {len(video_ids)} videos") results = {} with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as temp_dir: with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=max_workers) as executor: futures = { executor.submit(fetch_transcript, vid, temp_dir): vid for vid in video_ids } for future in as_completed(futures): vid = futures[future] try: results[vid] = future.result() except Exception: results[vid] = None got = sum(1 for v in results.values() if v) _log(f"Got transcripts for {got}/{len(video_ids)} videos") return results def search_and_transcribe( topic: str, from_date: str, to_date: str, depth: str = "default", ) -> Dict[str, Any]: """Full YouTube search: find videos, then fetch transcripts for top results. Args: topic: Search topic from_date: Start date (YYYY-MM-DD) to_date: End date (YYYY-MM-DD) depth: 'quick', 'default', or 'deep' Returns: Dict with 'items' list. Each item has a 'transcript_snippet' field. """ # Step 1: Search search_result = search_youtube(topic, from_date, to_date, depth) items = search_result.get("items", []) if not items: return search_result # Step 2: Fetch transcripts for top N by views transcript_limit = TRANSCRIPT_LIMITS.get(depth, TRANSCRIPT_LIMITS["default"]) top_ids = [item["video_id"] for item in items[:transcript_limit]] transcripts = fetch_transcripts_parallel(top_ids) # Step 3: Attach transcripts to items for item in items: vid = item["video_id"] transcript = transcripts.get(vid) item["transcript_snippet"] = transcript or "" return {"items": items} def parse_youtube_response(response: Dict[str, Any]) -> List[Dict[str, Any]]: """Parse YouTube search response to normalized format. Returns: List of item dicts ready for normalization. """ return response.get("items", [])