yt-briefing 0.11.0 → 0.11.1

package/dist/yt-transcript.js

@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ const ytdlpArgs = [
     '--sub-langs', subLangs,
     '--sub-format', 'vtt',
     '--ignore-errors', // continue if one language track fails (e.g. 429 on pl for en-only video)
+    '--extractor-retries', '3', // yt-dlp's own retry on the extractor-level bot-check / 429
     '--no-warnings',
     '--quiet',
     '-o', outTemplate,
@@ -98,7 +99,26 @@ const ytdlpArgs = [
 if (proxyUrl)
     ytdlpArgs.push('--proxy', proxyUrl);
 ytdlpArgs.push(`https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=${videoId}`);
-const result = spawnSync(YT_DLP, ytdlpArgs, { encoding: 'utf8', timeout: 60_000 });
+// The first request through a cold WARP/shared egress IP intermittently trips YouTube's
+// "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot" check; the very next request seconds later succeeds
+// (the extractor session warms up). Without a retry that transient flake exits 2, which the
+// sweep treats as fatal (emit → exit) — so a cold `/yt` needed two calls to get going. Retry
+// ONLY on rate-limit-with-no-subtitles: a genuine IP block still exhausts the attempts and
+// exits 2, and real tooling errors / captionless videos fall straight through untouched.
+const sleepSync = (ms) => Atomics.wait(new Int32Array(new SharedArrayBuffer(4)), 0, 0, ms);
+let result;
+for (let attempt = 1; attempt <= 3; attempt++) {
+    result = spawnSync(YT_DLP, ytdlpArgs, { encoding: 'utf8', timeout: 60_000 });
+    if (result.error)
+        break; // spawn / ENOENT — retrying won't help
+    const stderr = (result.stderr ?? '').toLowerCase();
+    const limited = stderr.includes('sign in') || stderr.includes('429') || stderr.includes('too many') || stderr.includes('captcha');
+    const gotSubs = existsSync(tmpDir) && readdirSync(tmpDir).some(f => f.endsWith('.vtt'));
+    if (gotSubs || !limited)
+        break; // success, or a non-rate-limit outcome → stop
+    if (attempt < 3)
+        sleepSync(attempt * 2000); // 2s, then 4s backoff between cold retries
+}
 const cleanup = () => { try {
     rmSync(tmpDir, { recursive: true });
 }

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "yt-briefing",
-  "version": "0.11.0",
+  "version": "0.11.1",
   "description": "A self-learning YouTube briefing engine: it sweeps the channels you follow, filters noise in two stages (title, then transcript), summarizes the rest in your language, and adapts to your ratings — one video at a time.",
   "type": "module",
   "bin": {