Ship a smaller installer that no longer carries ffmpeg.exe/ffprobe.exe
(the bulk of its size). On first run they are downloaded from a pinned
upstream archive (gyan 8.1.2), verified against a pinned SHA-256, and
unpacked with the OS tar.exe into the managed userData/bin dir -- the
same place as the self-updating yt-dlp, so they survive app updates and
portable re-extraction. A hard onboarding gate blocks the app until they
are present, with a "locate existing ffmpeg" folder-picker fallback for
offline machines and a Repair action in Settings > About.
The updater's streaming/checksum/redirect/idle-timeout download loop is
extracted to lib/verifiedDownload.streamVerifiedFile and shared by both
the app-installer download and the ffmpeg fetch; the updater's public
behaviour and error strings are unchanged (its boundary tests still pass).
No new npm dependency: extraction uses the System32 bsdtar resolved by
absolute path (audit F3).
Note: this commit also carries pre-existing, in-progress aria2c/network
and updater-token work that was already uncommitted in the working tree
and is entangled with the above in shared files (updater.ts, ipc.ts,
preload/index.ts, mockApi.ts, shared/ipc.ts, plus the settings/network
files and aria2c.exe). It was not cleanly separable by path, so it is
included here rather than split out.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The release repo is private, so the auto-updater previously required each
user to paste a Gitea token into Settings before it could see or download
updates. Inject a read-only token at build time (AEROFETCH_UPDATE_TOKEN env
var or a gitignored .update-token file) via electron.vite's `define`, and
fall back to it in authHeader() when the user hasn't set their own. The token
value lives only in the built bundle, never in source or git.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
.claude/launch.json was committed but VS Code reads launch configs from
.vscode/launch.json, so no tool was consuming it. Moved to the correct
location and removed the misplaced file from git tracking.
Also added .vscode/settings.json to .gitignore so local VS Code user
preferences don't end up tracked.
typecheck + 242 tests green.
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>
Stop ignoring resources/bin/*.exe and commit the binaries so clones are
self-contained (no manual binary drop needed).
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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