From fe65aee032c101de792ff6bf6820719d26498d67 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: IgorVolochay <spore.editor@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2026 12:08:49 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] feat: scan video cards and send VidIQ-scored ones to the
 service worker

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 src/content.js | 77 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------
 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/content.js b/src/content.js
index f4a1ea6..794041b 100644
--- a/src/content.js
+++ b/src/content.js
@@ -1,65 +1,54 @@
 (async () => {
-  const { parseVideoLink, pageFromPath } = await import(chrome.runtime.getURL('src/lib/video-id.js'));
-  const { readVidiqScore } = await import(chrome.runtime.getURL('src/lib/vidiq.js'));
+  const { pageFromPath } = await import(chrome.runtime.getURL('src/lib/video-id.js'));
+  const { CARD_SELECTOR, LINK_SELECTOR, scrapeCard } = await import(chrome.runtime.getURL('src/lib/card.js'));
 
-  const LINK_SELECTOR = 'a[href*="/watch?v="], a[href*="/shorts/"]';
-  // Only used to find the element that contains a VidIQ badge; ID collection does not depend on it.
-  const CARD_SELECTOR = [
-    'ytd-rich-item-renderer',
-    'ytd-video-renderer',
-    'ytd-compact-video-renderer',
-    'ytd-grid-video-renderer',
-    'yt-lockup-view-model',
-    'ytm-shorts-lockup-view-model',
-    'ytd-reel-item-renderer',
-  ].join(',');
   const SCAN_INTERVAL_MS = 500;
+  const MAX_ITEMS_PER_MESSAGE = 200;
 
-  // videoId -> true if already sent together with a VidIQ score, false if sent without one.
+  // videoId -> "outlierScore|views|subscribers" of the last message that carried the video.
+  // VidIQ may draw or update its numbers after the card appears, so a changed signature is sent again.
   let sent = new Map();
   let scanTimer = null;
 
-  function collectItems(page) {
-    const items = new Map();
-    const consider = (parsed, card) => {
-      const state = sent.get(parsed.videoId);
-      if (state === true) return;
-      const vidiqScore = readVidiqScore(card);
-      if (state === false && vidiqScore === null) return;
-      const item = items.get(parsed.videoId) ?? {
-        videoId: parsed.videoId,
-        vidiqScore: null,
-        viaShortsUrl: false,
-        page,
-      };
-      item.vidiqScore ??= vidiqScore;
-      item.viaShortsUrl ||= parsed.isShort;
-      items.set(parsed.videoId, item);
+  // Cards on a channel page do not name the channel, so take it from the page itself.
+  function channelContext() {
+    const [kind, name] = location.pathname.split('/').filter(Boolean);
+    const path = kind?.startsWith('@') ? kind : ['channel', 'c', 'user'].includes(kind) && name ? `${kind}/${name}` : null;
+    return {
+      channelUrl: path ? `https://www.youtube.com/${path}` : null,
+      channelTitle: document.title.replace(/^\(\d+\)\s*/, '').replace(/\s*-\s*YouTube$/, '') || null,
     };
-
-    for (const link of document.querySelectorAll(LINK_SELECTOR)) {
-      const parsed = parseVideoLink(link.getAttribute('href'));
-      if (parsed) consider(parsed, link.closest(CARD_SELECTOR) ?? link.parentElement);
-    }
-    if (page === 'watch') {
-      const current = parseVideoLink(location.href);
-      if (current) consider(current, null);
-    }
-    return [...items.values()];
   }
 
   function scan() {
     scanTimer = null;
     const page = pageFromPath(location.pathname);
     if (!page) return;
-    const items = collectItems(page);
-    if (items.length === 0) return;
-    for (const item of items) sent.set(item.videoId, item.vidiqScore !== null);
+    const context = page === 'channel' ? channelContext() : null;
+
+    const found = new Map();
+    const visited = new Set();
+    for (const link of document.querySelectorAll(LINK_SELECTOR)) {
+      const card = link.closest(CARD_SELECTOR);
+      if (!card || visited.has(card)) continue;
+      visited.add(card);
+      const item = scrapeCard(card, link, context);
+      if (!item || item.outlierScore === null || item.views === null) continue;
+      const signature = `${item.outlierScore}|${item.views}|${item.subscribers}`;
+      if (sent.get(item.videoId) === signature) continue;
+      found.set(item.videoId, { item: { ...item, page }, signature });
+    }
+    if (found.size === 0) return;
+
+    const batch = [...found.values()].slice(0, MAX_ITEMS_PER_MESSAGE);
+    for (const { item, signature } of batch) sent.set(item.videoId, signature);
     try {
-      chrome.runtime.sendMessage({ type: 'videos-seen', items }).catch(() => {});
+      chrome.runtime.sendMessage({ type: 'cards', items: batch.map(({ item }) => item) }).catch(() => {});
     } catch {
       observer.disconnect(); // the extension was reloaded; this script is orphaned
+      return;
     }
+    if (found.size > batch.length) scheduleScan();
   }
 
   function scheduleScan() {