From 84e53bfa61d55ba082dbb2254deda712a91130b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fijxu <fijxu@nadeko.net>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2026 23:56:22 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] more robust metadata_parts parsing

Videos that have two or more authors (in collaborations), have their
author information in JSON Objects inside metadataParts, alongside with
their view count and their published date, therefore, we need to iterate
the metadataParts array and do some filtering based on the content of
each JSON Object to find the view count and published date for some
videos.

Example:

```json
"metadataParts": [
    {
        "text": {
            "content": "Veritasium"
        },
        "icon": {
            "name": "CHECK_CIRCLE_FILLED",
            "height": 14,
            "width": 14,
            "accessibilityLabel": "Verified"
        }
    },
    {
        "text": {
            "content": "and Linus Tech Tips"
        },
        "icon": {
            "name": "CHECK_CIRCLE_FILLED",
            "height": 14,
            "width": 14,
            "accessibilityLabel": "Verified"
        }
    },
    {
        "text": {
            "content": "10M"
        },
        "accessibilityLabel": "10 million views"
    },
    {
        "text": {
            "content": "1y ago"
        }
    }
]
```
---
 src/invidious/yt_backend/extractors.cr | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/invidious/yt_backend/extractors.cr b/src/invidious/yt_backend/extractors.cr
index 2cf8f6e8..e188caa9 100644
--- a/src/invidious/yt_backend/extractors.cr
+++ b/src/invidious/yt_backend/extractors.cr
@@ -662,7 +662,12 @@ private module Parsers
         metadata = item_contents.dig("metadata", "lockupMetadataViewModel")
         title = metadata.dig("title", "content").as_s
         # Contains the views of the video and the published time of the video.
-        metadata_parts = metadata.dig("metadata", "contentMetadataViewModel", "metadataRows", 0, "metadataParts")
+        metadata_parts = metadata.dig("metadata", "contentMetadataViewModel", "metadataRows", 0, "metadataParts").try &.as_a
+
+        view_count_text = metadata_parts.try &.find { |item| item["icon"]?.nil? && item.dig?("text", "content").try &.as_s.includes?("views") }
+          .try &.dig("text", "content").as_s
+        published = metadata_parts.try &.find { |item| item["icon"]?.nil? && item.dig?("text", "content").try &.as_s.includes?("ago") }
+          .try { |item| decode_date(item.dig("text", "content").as_s) } || Time.local
 
         view_count = short_text_to_number(view_count_text || "0")