Flat listing has no upload dates, so channels showed one 'All Videos' season.
Now real year-seasons, filled from cheap sources and cached so they grow:
- core: parse_rss_dates / channel_recent_dates — one public RSS GET dates the
~15 most-recent uploads (no yt-dlp, no bot risk).
- db: youtube_video_dates cache table + cache_video_dates / get_video_dates.
- /youtube/channel merges cached + RSS dates onto the flat videos (year-seasons)
and caches what it learns; /youtube/video caches each fetched date too — so
expanding/wishing videos progressively fills the catalog's years, instant on
repeat. Dateless tail groups as 'Earlier videos'. Missing-only toggle hidden
for channels. 84 db + 84 youtube/api tests green.
Full day-one coverage still needs the YouTube Data API's publishedAt (optional,
yt-dlp can't match it cheaply) — RSS + cache is the no-key best.
Per request: a channel now opens the SAME detail page as a TV show instead of a
separate page. A channel renders through the show pipeline — currentKind='show'
(so the show container resolves) with d.kind='channel' + d.source='youtube'
driving content. Every change is an additive 'youtube' branch; the show/movie
path is byte-for-byte unchanged.
- Data transform (ytToShow): upload YEAR = season, video = episode, channel
banner=backdrop, avatar=poster (proxied), tags=genres, subs/videos/views=meta.
- Source-aware seams: bbBackdrop/bbPoster/seasonArt, billboard meta + actions
(Follow + Open-on-YouTube), episodeRow (ytEpisodeRow: Wish toggle), episode
expand (loadEpisodeExtra → /youtube/video full description+stats).
- Channel-only: playlists as a section below episodes (collapsible, lazy-load
their videos with wish toggles); per-video wish syncs across all cards; Follow.
- Routing: kind=channel → navigate('video-show-detail'); deep-link
/video-detail/youtube/channel/<id> still parses (string id). All TMDB-only
sections (cast/ratings/providers/etc.) auto-hide on empty channel data.
Retired the standalone video-channel.js + its subpage. JS/CSS balanced; music
untouched.
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