Bump YouTubeKit pin past YouTube's August player change - #141
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YouTube's August player change makes stream downloads fail with HTTP 403 on the July revision (7cc8190): every prep loops through streamURLExpired -> re-resolve -> 403 indefinitely. Upstream fixed extraction on 2026-08-18 (alexeichhorn/YouTubeKit#140, updated web client versions + new player-client fallbacks). Pin the known-good revision e5b7d03. Verified on device: imports that previously spun forever now download and play.
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Problem
YouTube playlist imports hang in an endless preparing/retry loop. Device logs show every download failing and re-resolving forever:
Root cause: YouTube changed their player in August; the pinned July YouTubeKit revision (
7cc8190) produces stream URLs that now 403 on fetch. Re-resolving can't help — every URL from the old client is rejected, so the queue's (correct) expired-URL recovery loops indefinitely.Fix
Bump the pin to
e5b7d03— upstream's 2026-08-18 fix (alexeichhorn/YouTubeKit#140: updated web client versions, visionOS player client preference, web-embedded fallback).Verification
On device (iPhone18,2, iOS 26): a playlist import that previously spun forever on every track now downloads, analyzes, and plays; ingest logs show zero
streamURLExpiredfailures over the observation window.Note: builds resolving
mainfresh already get the fixed revision — this records the known-good pin so stale SPM caches (which is how the July revision survived locally) can't quietly resurrect the bug.🤖 Generated with Claude Code