Two YouTube regressions stacked up:
- yt-dlp 2026.3.17 hit "HTTP Error 403: Forbidden" on the actual media
download. Bumping to 2026.6.9 fixes the data-download 403, but its EJS
n-sig challenge solver now requires Node >= 22, and Debian 13 only ships
Node 20 ("node-20.x (unsupported)" -> only image formats resolve). bot.py
now points --js-runtimes at a standalone /opt/node22 via the new
JS_RUNTIME constant.
- With a cookies.txt present, yt-dlp skips the cookieless android_vr/android
clients (whose URLs work) and falls back to the `tv` client, whose media
URLs 403. New _cookie_args(url) withholds cookies for YouTube hosts only,
while still sending them to Instagram/TikTok/X.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
bot.py:
- Run all yt-dlp/ffmpeg/ffprobe/file-IO/base64 work off the event loop via
asyncio.to_thread, bounded by a Semaphore(2); the loop no longer freezes
bot-wide during downloads/encodes.
- download_attachments=False; VideoTracker fetches only video attachments lazily
instead of the library base64-ing every attachment of every message.
- last_video keyed per (group, sender) with group-latest fallback so /speed and
/rev stop silently targeting a stranger's video; proactive TTL sweeps free the
big base64 blobs and bound recent_urls growth.
- _reencode guards 0/NaN ffprobe duration and adds -maxrate/-bufsize; /rev now
size-checks + re-encodes + faststart like the other paths.
- Twitter URL regex no longer merges space-separated links (keeps i/web/status);
dedupe repeated URLs within a message; mark-handled only on success/no-media so
a corrective edit can retry; 'unsupported url' surfaced instead of silently dropped.
- All sends wrapped (catch SendMessageError); base64 decode guarded; edit/sync
attachment envelopes handled; /cookies temp file created 0600.
deploy:
- Pin signalbot==1.1.0, yt-dlp floor, add missing yt-dlp-ejs.
- Pin signal-cli-rest-api by digest + add /v1/health healthcheck.
- Restart=always (the library never exits non-zero when wedged).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Group-chat bot that downloads videos from X/Instagram/YouTube/TikTok links
via yt-dlp and posts them back, plus /speed and /rev video toys.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
