From f6436e728669135746b6dd96da666be98663077c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: hibutwhy <112614297+hibutwhy@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2026 22:17:43 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fall back to first metadata row when no views/published row
 found

---
 src/invidious/yt_backend/extractors.cr | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/invidious/yt_backend/extractors.cr b/src/invidious/yt_backend/extractors.cr
index 9c813522e..b70cbf571 100644
--- a/src/invidious/yt_backend/extractors.cr
+++ b/src/invidious/yt_backend/extractors.cr
@@ -664,10 +664,10 @@ private module Parsers
         # Contains the views of the video and the published time of the video.
         # For collaboration videos, the first row contains the author names
         # instead, so we scan all rows for the one with view/publish info.
-        metadata_parts = metadata.dig?("metadata", "contentMetadataViewModel", "metadataRows")
-          .try &.as_a
-            .compact_map { |row| row.dig?("metadataParts").try &.as_a }
-            .find { |parts| parts.any? { |item| item.dig?("text", "content").try &.as_s.includes?("views") || item.dig?("text", "content").try &.as_s.includes?("ago") } }
+        all_rows = metadata.dig?("metadata", "contentMetadataViewModel", "metadataRows")
+          .try &.as_a.compact_map { |row| row.dig?("metadataParts").try &.as_a }
+        metadata_parts = all_rows.try &.find { |parts| parts.any? { |item| item.dig?("text", "content").try &.as_s.includes?("views") || item.dig?("text", "content").try &.as_s.includes?("ago") } }
+        metadata_parts ||= all_rows.try &.first?
 
         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