yt-dlp is now a managed, auto-updating binary rather than a static bundled
one. On launch AeroFetch seeds a writable copy under userData from the
bundled seed, self-heals it if it goes missing, and — throttled to once a
day — self-updates it to the configured channel (default: nightly). This
keeps the binary current so YouTube changes don't silently cause 403s, and
an app reinstall (or portable re-extraction) can no longer roll it back.
Settings shows an auto-update toggle, the live version, last-checked time,
and the channel selector.
Also surface the bundled ffmpeg/ffprobe versions in Settings (display only:
they have no self-update path and, unlike yt-dlp, don't break as sites
change, so there is no auto-update for them).
- binaries: split the read-only bundled seed from the managed userData copy
- ytdlp: ensureManagedYtdlp (seed + self-heal), startup auto-update runner
- ytdlpPolicy: pure once-a-day throttle decision (unit-tested)
- ffmpeg: parse ffmpeg/ffprobe -version for the Settings panel
- settings/ipc/preload/renderer: new settings, IPC channels, types, and UI
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A new Settings → "Software update" card lets users update AeroFetch from inside
the app:
- src/main/updater.ts — queries the configured Gitea repo's latest release over
the public REST API, compares the tag to app.getVersion(), and (on request)
streams the installer asset to the OS temp dir with progress events, then
launches it and quits so it can replace the app.
- Security: only the trusted update host over HTTPS is ever downloaded from, and
only a freshly-downloaded .exe inside our temp dir is ever executed — the
download URL from the release JSON can't redirect us elsewhere. No token is
ever shipped; the source repo must be anonymously readable (public).
- IPC: app:update-check / -download / -run + an -progress push channel, exposed
via preload (checkForAppUpdate / downloadAppUpdate / runAppUpdate /
onAppUpdateProgress).
- UI: "Check for updates" → shows the new version and its release notes, then
"Update now" (with a download progress bar) or "View release". Up-to-date and
error states handled. Preview mock added so the flow is exercisable in `npm run ui`.
Note: the update source repo/host are constants at the top of updater.ts
(currently debont80/AeroFetch). Downloads work once the release repo is public
and the Gitea instance allows anonymous API + asset access.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Seven-tier security audit of the main process, each finding fixed with a
regression test. Typecheck (node + web) clean; unit tests 106 -> 140.
- Tier 1 (command exec/argv): allowlist the yt-dlp --update-to channel
(blocks arbitrary-binary-install RCE); gate per-download extraArgs behind
the customCommandEnabled consent flag in main (blocks --exec RCE); resolve
taskkill/schtasks by absolute System32 path; validate per-download
outputDir; normalize the URL in assertHttpUrl and use it at every spawn.
- Tier 2 (input validation): fix isSafeFilenameTemplate drive-relative
('C:foo') and Windows dotted-'..' traversal bypasses; percent-encode the
untrusted id in entryUrl; catch reserved device names with extensions in
sanitizeDirSegment.
- Tier 3 (fs/backup): drop malformed template rows in importBackup;
normalize deep-link URLs via assertHttpUrl.
- Tier 4 (cookies): confine the sign-in window's navigations/popups to web
URLs (recursively) and deny all web permissions on its session.
- Tier 5 (deep-link/argv): bound the .url file read to 64 KB; match the
aerofetch:// scheme case-insensitively.
- Tier 6 (Electron window): deny camera/mic/geolocation/USB/HID/serial/
Bluetooth permissions on the app window.
- Tier 7 (network/persistence): restrict the watched-source RSS fetch to
youtube.com feed URLs (SSRF guard); complete isValidSource validation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Expose the AeroFetch version over IPC (app:version → app.getVersion); the
sidebar brand now shows "v<version>" beneath the name.
- Sidebar can collapse to a 60px icon-only rail via a toggle button; nav items
and the theme control fall back to icon + tooltip when collapsed. The state is
persisted in localStorage so it survives restarts. Hint gains left/right
placements for the collapsed-rail tooltips.
- Replace the binary dark-mode Switch with an explicit 3-way Light / Dark / Auto
segmented control (Auto follows the OS). Collapsed, it becomes a single button
that cycles the three modes.
- Bump version to 0.3.2.
Verified in the browser UI preview: version label, collapse/expand, dark mode,
and the theme switch all render correctly with no console errors.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Create Documents\Video and Documents\Audio on startup (ensureMediaDirs), and
route each download into them by kind when no explicit output folder is set.
An empty outputDir now means "sort by type"; a chosen folder still overrides
for both kinds.
- Settings/Onboarding "Download folder" gains a placeholder + hint describing
the blank = route-by-type behaviour.
- Trim the home download bar to the essentials: URL box, Search and Paste
buttons, format/quality, and the Download button. Removed the private-mode
toggle, per-download Options panel, custom-command panel, command preview, and
the saving-to-folder line.
- Bump version to 0.3.0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Index an entire YouTube channel or playlist once, then download it into
organized <Channel>/<Playlist>/<NNN> - <Title> folders, with incremental
re-sync. Built in six rebuild-gated phases (F-K); see ROADMAP-PINCHFLAT.md.
- F: channel-walk indexer (/playlists + /videos) -> persisted Source +
MediaItem JSON stores; pure classify/dedup logic in indexerCore.ts
- G: Windows-safe folder paths + dir sanitizer (collectionOutputTemplate)
- H: Library tab + source tree + "Download pending" into the existing queue
- I: state-preserving re-index merge + persist-downloaded-on-complete
- J: watched sources, RSS fast-check, Task Scheduler + --sync launch
(the OS-level scheduling/RSS need a real-install smoke test)
- K: .info.json / thumbnail / .description sidecars for media servers
Also gitignore .gitea-token. 106 unit tests pass; typecheck + build clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Swap Toffee/Slate/Evergreen/Lavender for rose/coral/amber/teal — four ramps
sharing one lightness/saturation curve (src/renderer/src/theme.ts). Default
accent is now teal. Updates ACCENT_COLORS (src/shared/ipc.ts), the settings
default + stale-value coercion (src/main/settings.ts), the dev/store fallbacks
(main.tsx, store/settings.ts), and the native window background to match the
new pageBackground.light (src/main/index.ts).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds theme presets (Toffee/Slate/Evergreen/Lavender) with a "follow system"
mode and high-contrast awareness, a first-run welcome screen, and the
Windows analog of Android's share sheet for a Win32 app: an aerofetch://
protocol handler plus an Explorer "Send to AeroFetch" entry, both routed
through a single-instance lock so a second launch hands its link to the
already-running window instead of opening a duplicate.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Phase C had been implemented in the working tree but never committed:
named custom-command templates (CRUD + per-download override), command
preview, and the in-app yt-dlp self-updater.
Phase D adds: history search/kind-filter/multi-select/bulk-delete/
re-download; native OS notifications on completion/failure; a private/
incognito download mode that skips history; settings+template backup/
restore via JSON; and a persistent error log surfaced as a Diagnostics
report in Settings.
See ROADMAP.md for the full per-item breakdown.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Implements the remaining Phase B (Access & networking) items from
ROADMAP.md: cookie sources (browser cookie-store import, or a built-in
sign-in window that exports a Netscape cookie file via a persisted Electron
session partition), the aria2c external downloader, proxy/rate-limit,
restrict-filenames, and a download-archive to skip repeats.
Wires download.ts to the buildArgs() module added in the previous commit
(it wasn't hooked up yet) and renames its options param
NetworkOptions -> AccessOptions to reflect the wider scope now that cookies
and filename/archive flags joined proxy/rate-limit/aria2c.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Phase A of the Seal feature-parity roadmap: configurable post-processing via a
shared DownloadOptions model (src/shared/ipc.ts), editable as persisted defaults
in Settings and overridable per-download in the download bar.
- audio formats (mp3/m4a/opus/flac/wav/aac), video container (mp4/mkv/webm),
preferred-codec sort (-S vcodec)
- subtitles (download/embed/langs/auto), SponsorBlock (remove/mark + categories
+ force-keyframes-at-cuts), embed chapters/metadata/thumbnail, square-crop
audio artwork
- playlist downloads: probe via `-J --flat-playlist`, inline selection UI
(checkbox list, select-all/none, live count); each entry enqueued as its own
single-video download, reusing the existing queue/concurrency/history
- reusable DownloadOptionsForm shared by Settings and the download bar so the
defaults and per-download override never drift
- ROADMAP.md tracking full Seal parity (phases A-E)
Also includes in-tree security hardening that landed alongside: preload sandbox
(CJS preload output), http(s)-only window-open + blocked renderer navigation,
argv-injection guard for URLs (src/main/url.ts), extension-allowlisted file
open/reveal (src/main/reveal.ts), yt-dlp version-check timeout, and a minimal
window.electron presence marker.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Electron + React (Fluent UI) desktop frontend for yt-dlp:
- Download queue with live progress, concurrency cap, cancel/retry
- Format/quality picker via yt-dlp probe; audio extraction to MP3
- Settings + history persistence (electron-store / JSON)
- Clipboard link auto-detect; persisted light/dark theme
- NSIS + portable packaging (binaries bundled at build time, not in git)
UI: "Studio" sidebar layout with a toffee-brown theme (light + neutral dark).
Dropdowns use a native <select> and tooltips a CSS-only Hint, to avoid a
dev-machine GPU overlay flicker/blank issue.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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