feat: display video publication dates

Cargo.lock

@@ -1311,6 +1311,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "ratatui-image",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
+ "time",
  "toml_edit",
 ]
 

Cargo.toml

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ ratatui-image = { version = "11.1.0", default-features = false, features = ["cro
 serde = { version = "1.0.229", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0.151"
 toml_edit = "0.25.17"
+time = "0.3.55"
 
 [target."cfg(unix)".dependencies]
 libc = "0.2.190"

src/youtube.rs

@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ pub struct Video {
     pub channel_id: Option<String>,
     pub uploader_id: Option<String>,
     pub timestamp: Option<i64>,
+    /// Cached YYYY-MM-DD label; a leading ~ marks an estimated UTC date.
+    #[serde(default, rename = "upload_date")]
+    pub publication_date: Option<String>,
     // Search descriptions are truncated; only full video metadata populates this cache.
     #[serde(skip)]
     pub description: Option<String>,
@@ -89,6 +92,24 @@ fn validate_video(video: &mut Video) -> Result<(), String> {
     if let Some(channel) = &mut video.channel {
         channel.retain(|c| !c.is_control());
     }
+    let exact_date = video.publication_date.as_deref().and_then(|date| {
+        if date.len() != 8 || !date.bytes().all(|byte| byte.is_ascii_digit()) {
+            return None;
+        }
+        time::Date::from_calendar_date(
+            date[..4].parse().ok()?,
+            date[4..6].parse::<u8>().ok()?.try_into().ok()?,
+            date[6..].parse().ok()?,
+        )
+        .ok()
+    });
+    video.publication_date = exact_date.map(|date| date.to_string()).or_else(|| {
+        video.timestamp.and_then(|timestamp| {
+            time::OffsetDateTime::from_unix_timestamp(timestamp)
+                .ok()
+                .map(|date| format!("~{}", date.date()))
+        })
+    });
     Ok(())
 }
 
@@ -188,6 +209,8 @@ impl Job {
             &start.to_string(),
             "--playlist-end",
             &end.to_string(),
+            "--extractor-args",
+            "youtubetab:approximate_date",
             "--dump-single-json",
             &format!("ytsearchall:{query}"),
         ]))
@@ -524,6 +547,33 @@ impl Drop for Playback {
 mod tests {
     use super::*;
 
+    #[test]
+    fn publication_dates_prefer_exact_metadata_and_handle_utc_boundaries_and_invalid_dates() {
+        for parse in [search_results, feed_results] {
+            for (upload_date, timestamp, expected) in [
+                (Some("20240229"), Some(0), Some("2024-02-29")),
+                (Some("20000229"), None, Some("2000-02-29")),
+                (Some("19000229"), None, None),
+                (Some("20230229"), Some(0), Some("~1970-01-01")),
+                (Some("20241301"), None, None),
+                (Some("日本語"), None, None),
+                (None, Some(-1), Some("~1969-12-31")),
+                (None, Some(1_709_251_199), Some("~2024-02-29")),
+                (None, Some(1_709_251_200), Some("~2024-03-01")),
+                (None, Some(i64::MAX), None),
+                (None, None, None),
+            ] {
+                let output = serde_json::json!({"entries":[{
+                    "id": "jNQXAC9IVRw", "title": "Video",
+                    "upload_date": upload_date, "timestamp": timestamp,
+                }]})
+                .to_string();
+                let page = parse(&output).unwrap();
+                assert_eq!(page.videos[0].publication_date.as_deref(), expected);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn thumbnails_bound_binary_input_and_reject_unsafe_ids() {
         let bytes = [0xff, 0xd8, 0x00, 0xfe];