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README.md

@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ The main Python application that displays and serves your video collection, buil
   - Change the environment variables `TA_USERNAME` and `TA_PASSWORD` to create the initial credentials. 
   - `ELASTIC_PASSWORD` is for the password for Elasticsearch. The environment variable `ELASTIC_USER` is optional, should you want to change the username from the default *elastic*.
   - For the scheduler to know what time it is, set your timezone with the `TZ` environment variable, defaults to *UTC*.
+  - Set the environment variable `ENABLE_CAST=True` to send videos to your cast device, [read more](#enable-cast).
 
 ### Port collisions
 If you have a collision on port `8000`, best solution is to use dockers *HOST_PORT* and *CONTAINER_PORT* distinction: To for example change the interface to port 9000 use `9000:8000` in your docker-compose file.  
@@ -135,6 +136,18 @@ You can configure LDAP with the following environment variables:
 
 When LDAP authentication is enabled, django passwords (e.g. the password defined in TA_PASSWORD), will not allow you to login, only the LDAP server is used.
 
+### Enable Cast
+As Cast doesn't support authentication, enabling this functionality will make your static files like artwork and media files accessible by guessing the links. That's read only access, the application itself is still protected.
+
+Enabling this integration will embed an additional third party JS library from **Google**.  
+
+**Requirements**:
+- HTTPS: To use the cast integration HTTPS needs to be enabled, which can be done using a reverse proxy. This is a requirement by Google as communication to the cast device is required to be encrypted, but the content itself is not.
+- Supported Browser: A supported browser is required for this integration such as Google Chrome. Other browsers, especially Chromium-based browsers, may support casting by enabling it in the settings.
+- Subtitles: Subtitles are supported however they do not work out of the box and require additional configuration. Due to requirements by Google, to use subtitles you need additional headers which will need to be configured in your reverse proxy. See this [page](https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/web_sender/advanced#cors_requirements) for the specific requirements.  
+You need the following headers: Content-Type, Accept-Encoding, and Range. Note that the last two headers, Accept-Encoding and Range, are additional headers that you may not have needed previously.  
+Wildcards "*" can not be used for the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header. If the page has protected media content, it must use a domain instead of a wildcard.
+
 ### Elasticsearch
 **Note**: Tube Archivist depends on Elasticsearch 8. 
 
@@ -158,7 +171,7 @@ For some architectures it might be required to run Redis JSON on a nonstandard p
 - Additionally set the following value to the *archivist-redis* service: `command: --port 6380 --loadmodule /usr/lib/redis/modules/rejson.so`
 
 ### Updating Tube Archivist
-You will see the current version number of **Tube Archivist** in the footer of the interface so you can compare it with the latest release to make sure you are running the *latest and greatest*.  
+You will see the current version number of **Tube Archivist** in the footer of the interface. There is a daily version check task querying tubearchivist.com, notifying you of any new releases in the footer. To take advantage of the latest fixes and improvements, make sure you are running the *latest and greatest*.  
 * There can be breaking changes between updates, particularly as the application grows, new environment variables or settings might be required for you to set in the your docker-compose file. *Always* check the **release notes**: Any breaking changes will be marked there.  
 * All testing and development is done with the Elasticsearch version number as mentioned in the provided *docker-compose.yml* file. This will be updated when a new release of Elasticsearch is available. Running an older version of Elasticsearch is most likely not going to result in any issues, but it's still recommended to run the same version as mentioned. Use `bbilly1/tubearchivist-es` to automatically get the recommended version.
 

docs/Channels.md

@@ -9,23 +9,35 @@ Accessible at `/channel/` of your Tube Archivist, the **Overview Page** shows a
 
 The **Subscribe to Channels** button <img src="assets/icon-add.png?raw=true" alt="add icon" width="20px" style="margin:0 5px;"> opens a text field to subscribe to a channel. You have a few options:
 - Enter the YouTube channel ID, a 25 character alphanumeric string. For example *UCBa659QWEk1AI4Tg--mrJ2A*
-- Enter the URL to the channel page on YouTube. For example *https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBa659QWEk1AI4Tg--mrJ2A*
-- Enter the channel name for example: *https://www.youtube.com/c/TomScottGo*.
-- Enter the video URL for any video and let Tube Archivist extract the channel ID for you. For example *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tdiKTSdE9Y*
+- Enter the URL to the channel page on YouTube. For example *https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBa659QWEk1AI4Tg--mrJ2A* or alias url *https://www.youtube.com/@TomScottGo*
+- Enter a channel alias starting with *@*, for example: *@TomScottGo*
+- Enter the video URL for any video and let Tube Archivist extract the channel ID for you, for example *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tdiKTSdE9Y*
 - Add one per line.
 
-You can search your indexed channels by clicking on the search icon <img src="assets/icon-search.png?raw=true" alt="search icon" width="20px" style="margin:0 5px;">. This will open a dedicated page.
+To search your channels, click on the search icon <img src="assets/icon-search.png?raw=true" alt="search icon" width="20px" style="margin:0 5px;"> to reach the search page. Start your query with `channel:`, learn more on the [search](Search) page.
 
 ## Channel Detail
-Each channel will get a dedicated channel detail page accessible at `/channel/<channel-id>/` of your Tube Archivist. This page shows all the videos you have downloaded from this channel.
-
+Each channel gets a set of channel detail pages.
 - If you are subscribed to the channel, an *Unsubscribe* button will show, else the *Subscribe* button will show.
 - The **Mark as Watched** button will mark all videos of this channel as watched.
 
-Additionally there is a *Channel Playlist* page, accessible at `/channel/<channel-id>/playlist/` to show all indexed playlists from this channel. 
+### Videos
+Accessible at `/channel/<channel-id>/`, this page shows all the videos you have downloaded from this channel.
 
+### Streams
+If you have any streams indexed, this page will become accessible at `/channel/<channel-id>/streams/`, this page shows all available live streams of that channel. 
+
+### Shorts
+If you have any shorts videos indexed, this page will become accessible at `/channel/<channel-id>/shorts/`, this page shows all the shorts videos of that channel.
+
+### Playlists
+If you have playlists from this channel indexed, this page will become accessible at `/channel/<channel-id>/playlist/`. Activate channel playlist indexing on the about page.
+
+### About
 On the *Channel About* page, accessible at `/channel/<channel-id>/about/`, you can see additional metadata.
 - The button **Delete Channel** will delete the channel plus all videos of this channel, both media files and metadata additionally this will also delete playlists metadata belonging to that channel.
+- The button **Reindex** will reindex all channel metadata. This will also categorize existing videos as shorts or streams.
+- The button **Reindex Videos** will reindex metadata for all videos in this channel.
 
 The channel customize form gives options to change settings on a per channel basis. Any configurations here will overwrite your configurations from the [settings](Settings) page.
 - **Download Format**: Overwrite the download quality for videos from this channel.
@@ -33,4 +45,5 @@ The channel customize form gives options to change settings on a per channel bas
 - **Index Playlists**: Automatically add all Playlists with at least a video downloaded to your index. Only do this for channels where you care about playlists as this will slow down indexing new videos for having to check which playlist this belongs to.
 - **SponsorBlock**: Using [SponsorBlock](https://sponsor.ajay.app/) to get and skip sponsored content. Customize per channel: You can *disable* or *enable* SponsorBlock for certain channels only to overwrite the behavior set on the [Settings](settings) page. Selecting *unset* will remove the overwrite and your setting will fall back to the default on the settings page.
 
-If you have any videos pending in the download queue, a *Downloads* link will show, bringing you directly to the [downloads](Downloads) page, filtering the list by the selected channel.
+### Downloads
+If you have any videos from this channel pending in the download queue, a *Downloads* link will show, bringing you directly to the [downloads](Downloads) page, filtering the list by the selected channel.

docs/Downloads.md

@@ -3,28 +3,44 @@ Accessible at `/downloads/` of your Tube Archivist, this page handles all the do
 
 
 ## Rescan Subscriptions
-The **Rescan Subscriptions** icon <img src="assets/icon-rescan.png?raw=true" alt="rescan icon" width="20px" style="margin:0 5px;"> will start a background task to look for new videos from the channels and playlists you are subscribed to. You can define the channel and playlist page size on the [settings page](Settings#subscriptions). With the default page size, expect this process to take around 2-3 seconds for each channel or playlist you are subscribed to. A status message will show the progress.
+The **Rescan Subscriptions** icon <img src="assets/icon-rescan.png?raw=true" alt="rescan icon" width="20px" style="margin:0 5px;"> will start a background task to look for new videos from the channels and playlists you are subscribed to.  
+Tube Archivist will get available *videos*, *shorts* and *streams* from each channel, you can define the channel and playlist page size on the [settings page](Settings#subscriptions). With the default page size, expect this process to take around 2-3 seconds for each channel or playlist you are subscribed to. A status message will show the progress.
 
-Then for every video found, **Tube Archivist** will skip the video if it has already been downloaded or if you added it to the *ignored* list before. All the other videos will get added to the download queue. Expect this to take around 2 seconds for each video as **Tube Archivist** needs to grab some additional metadata. New videos will get added at the bottom of the download queue.
+Then for every video found, **Tube Archivist** will skip the video if it has already been downloaded or if you added it to the *ignored* list before. All the other videos will get added to the download queue. Expect this to take around 2 seconds for each video as **Tube Archivist** needs to grab some additional metadata and artwork. New videos will get added at the bottom of the download queue.
 
 ## Download Queue
 The **Start Download** icon <img src="assets/icon-download.png?raw=true" alt="download icon" width="20px" style="margin:0 5px;"> will start the download process starting from the top of the queue. Take a look at the relevant settings on the [Settings Page](Settings#downloads). Once the process started, a progress message will show with additional details and controls: 
 - The stop icon <img src="assets/icon-stop.png?raw=true" alt="stop icon" width="20px" style="margin:0 5px;"> will gracefully stop the download process, once the current video has been finished successfully.
 - The cancel icon <img src="assets/icon-close-red.png?raw=true" alt="close icon" width="20px" style="margin:0 5px;"> is equivalent to killing the process and will stop the download immediately. Any leftover files will get deleted, the canceled video will still be available in the download queue.
 
-After downloading, Tube Archivist tries to add new videos to already indexed playlists.
+After downloading, Tube Archivist tries to add new videos to already indexed playlists and if activated on the settings page, get comments for the new videos.
 
 ## Add to Download Queue
-The **Add to Download Queue** icon <img src="assets/icon-add.png?raw=true" alt="add icon" width="20px" style="margin:0 5px;"> opens a text field to manually add videos to the download queue. You have a few options:
-- Add a link to a YouTube video. For example *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tdiKTSdE9Y*.
-- Add a YouTube video ID. For example *2tdiKTSdE9Y*.
-- Add a link to a YouTube video by providing the shortened URL, for example *https://youtu.be/2tdiKTSdE9Y*.
-- Add a Channel ID or Channel URL to add every available video to the download queue. This will ignore the channel page size as described before and is meant for an initial download of the whole channel. You can still ignore selected videos before starting the download.
-- Add a channel name like for example *https://www.youtube.com/c/TomScottGo*.
+The **Add to Download Queue** icon <img src="assets/icon-add.png?raw=true" alt="add icon" width="20px" style="margin:0 5px;"> opens a text field to manually add videos to the download queue. Add one item per line. You have a few options:
+
+### Videos
+- Add a YouTube video ID, for example *2tdiKTSdE9Y*
+- Add a link to a YouTube video, for example *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tdiKTSdE9Y*
+- Add a link to a YouTube video by providing the shortened URL, for example *https://youtu.be/2tdiKTSdE9Y*
+- Add a link to a shorts video, for example *https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UOfe6e0k7cQ*
+
+### Channels
+- When adding a channel, Tube Archivist will ignore the channel page size as described above, this is meant for an initial download of the whole channel. You can still ignore selected videos from the queue before starting the download.
+- Download a complete channel including shorts and streams by entering:
+  - Channel ID: *UCBa659QWEk1AI4Tg--mrJ2A*
+  - Channel URL: *https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBa659QWEk1AI4Tg--mrJ2A*
+  - Channel *@* alias handler: For example *@TomScottGo*
+  - Channel alias URL: *https://www.youtube.com/@TomScottGo*
+- Download videos, live streams or shorts only, by providing a partial channel URL:
+  - Videos only: *https://www.youtube.com/@IBRACORP/videos*
+  - Shorts only: *https://www.youtube.com/@IBRACORP/shorts*
+  - Streams only: *https://www.youtube.com/@IBRACORP/streams*
+  - Every other channel sub page will default to download all, for example *https://www.youtube.com/@IBRACORP/featured* will download videos and shorts and streams.
+
+### Playlist
 - Add a playlist ID or URL to add every available video in the list to the download queue, for example *https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL96C35uN7xGLLeET0dOWaKHkAlPsrkcha* or *PL96C35uN7xGLLeET0dOWaKHkAlPsrkcha*. 
-  - Note: When adding a playlist to the queue, this playlist will automatically get [indexed](Playlists#playlist-detail).
-  - Note: When you add a link to a video in a playlist, Tube Archivist assumes you want to download only the specific video and not the whole playlist, for example *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CINVwWHlzTY&list=PL96C35uN7xGLLeET0dOWaKHkAlPsrkcha* will only add one video *CINVwWHlzTY* to the queue.
-- Add one link per line.
+- When adding a playlist to the queue, this playlist will automatically get [indexed](Playlists#playlist-detail).
+- When you add a link to a video in a playlist, Tube Archivist assumes you want to download only the specific video and not the whole playlist, for example *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CINVwWHlzTY&list=PL96C35uN7xGLLeET0dOWaKHkAlPsrkcha* will only add one video *CINVwWHlzTY* to the queue.
 
 ## The Download Queue
 Below the three buttons you find the download queue. New items will get added at the bottom of the queue, the next video to download once you click on **Start Download** will be the first in the list.
@@ -37,7 +53,7 @@ Every video in the download queue has two buttons:
 
 You can flip the view by activating **Show Only Ignored Videos**. This will show all videos you have previously *ignored*.  
 Every video in the ignored list has two buttons:
-- **Forget**: This will delete the item form the ignored list.
+- **Forget**: This will delete the item from the ignored list.
 - **Add to Queue**: This will add the ignored video back to the download queue.  
 
 You can delete your download queue from the [Settings](Settings#actions) page.

docs/Playlists.md

@@ -19,5 +19,7 @@ You can search your indexed playlists by clicking on the search icon <img src="a
 Each playlist will get a dedicated playlist detail page accessible at `/playlist/<playlist-id>/` of your Tube Archivist. This page shows all the videos you have downloaded from this playlist.
 
 - If you are subscribed to the playlist, an Unsubscribe button will show, else the Subscribe button will show.
-- The Mark as Watched button will mark all videos of this playlist as watched.
+- The **Mark as Watched** button will mark all videos of this playlist as watched.
+- The button **Reindex** will reindex the playlist metadata.
+- The button **Reindex Videos** will reindex all videos from this playlist.
 - The **Delete Playlist** button will give you the option to delete just the *metadata* which won't delete any media files or *delete all* which will delete metadata plus all videos belonging to this playlist.

docs/Settings.md

@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ Switch between the easy on the eyes dark theme and the burning bright theme.
 ## Subscriptions
 Settings related to the channel management.
 - **Channel Page Size**: Defines how many pages will get analyzed by **Tube Archivist** each time you click on *Rescan Subscriptions*. The default page size used by yt-dlp is **50**, that's also the recommended value to set here. Any value higher will slow down the rescan process, for example if you set the value to 51, that means yt-dlp will have to go through 2 pages of results instead of 1 and by that doubling the time that process takes.
+- **Live Page Size**: Same as above, but for channel live streams.
+- **Shorts page Size**: Same as above, but for shorts videos.
 
 ## Downloads
 Settings related to the download process.
@@ -72,14 +74,6 @@ All third party integrations of TubeArchivist will **always** be *opt in*.
 - **API**: Your access token for the Tube Archivist API.
 - **returnyoutubedislike.com**: This will get return dislikes and average ratings for each video by integrating with the API from [returnyoutubedislike.com](https://www.returnyoutubedislike.com/).
 - **SponsorBlock**: Using [SponsorBlock](https://sponsor.ajay.app/) to get and skip sponsored content. If a video doesn't have timestamps, or has unlocked timestamps, use the browser addon to contribute to this excellent project. Can also be activated and deactivated as a per [channel overwrite](Settings#channel-customize).
-- **Cast**: Enabling the cast integration in the settings page will load an additional JS library from **Google**.  
-*NOTE*: This feature is currently broken due to an authentication issue, see #331.
-Requirements:
-    - HTTPS: To use the cast integration HTTPS needs to be enabled, which can be done using a reverse proxy. This is a requirement by Google as communication to the cast device is required to be encrypted, but the content itself is not.
-    - Supported Browser:A supported browser is required for this integration such as Google Chrome. Other browsers, especially Chromium-based browsers, may support casting by enabling it in the settings.
-    - Subtitles: Subtitles are supported however they do not work out of the box and require additional configuration. Due to requirements by Google, to use subtitles you need additional headers which will need to be configured in your reverse proxy. See this [page](https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/web_sender/advanced#cors_requirements) for the specific requirements.  
-    You need the following headers: Content-Type, Accept-Encoding, and Range. Note that the last two headers, Accept-Encoding and Range, are additional headers that you may not have needed previously.  
-    Wildcards "*" cannot be used for the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header. If the page has protected media content, it must use a domain instead of a wildcard.
 
 ## Snapshots
 System snapshots will automatically make daily snapshots of the Elasticsearch index. The task will start at 12pm your local time. Snapshots are deduplicated, meaning that each snapshot will only have to backup changes since the last snapshot. The initial snapshot may be slow, but subsequent runs will be much faster. There is also a cleanup function implemented, that will remove snapshots older than 30 days.

docs/Video.md

@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@ Every video downloaded gets a dedicated page accessible at `/video/<video-id>/`
 
 Clicking on the channel name or the channel icon will bring you to the dedicated channel detail [page](Channels#channel-detail).
 
-The button **Delete Video** will delete that video including the media file.
+- The button **Reindex** will reindex the metadata of this video.
+- The button **Download File** will download the media file in the browser.
+- The button **Delete Video** will delete that video including the media file.
 
 If available, a tag cloud will show, representing the tags set by the uploader.