[Bug] Playlists list continuation is broken

[TheFrenchGhosty]

Clicking on "Next page" on the playlists list of a channel will trigger a bug, because the continuation is broken.

Example:

https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCXuqSBlHAE6Xw-yeJA0Tunw/playlists

"Next page" continuation is ?continuation= instead of an actual value:

https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCXuqSBlHAE6Xw-yeJA0Tunw/playlists?continuation=

[TheFrenchGhosty]

Updated example:

https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UC-lHJZR3Gqxm24_Vd_AJ5Yw/playlists

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-lHJZR3Gqxm24_Vd_AJ5Yw/playlists

[TheFrenchGhosty]

A 20$ bounty has been added to this issue.

Anyone opening a PR fixing this issue, will receive 20$ (in BTC) from the Invidious project.

More details: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/1898

[greenfoo]

Is this bug still relevant? I just checked with the latest version from master and the "Next" button works on PewDiePie's playlists without problems. The API endpoint (http://localhost:3000/api/v1/channels/playlists/UC-lHJZR3Gqxm24_Vd_AJ5Yw?continuation=...) also seems to work ok.

[TheFrenchGhosty]

It is still relevant.

There's not next button here: https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UC-lHJZR3Gqxm24_Vd_AJ5Yw/playlists

[greenfoo]

Snopyta is not using the latest commit from master:

I just tried with the latest master and the Next button is there:

It looks like the commit where this issue was fixed is c0997f951c9af58a844d6098398ce0a39e43d052

[TheFrenchGhosty]

mmh great then!

Edit: I tried it still partially broken.

[SamantazFox]

It works on the few channels I tried, however, there is no "previous page" button.

As I mentionned in https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/1929#issuecomment-812553482, the ctoken generation is still required for three reasons:

1. Shorter links with a ?page=n parameter, easily human-readable
2. Making sure that no tracking parameters are embedded in said token (this is big G, who knows what can happen).
3. The user can sort the playlists differently than what youtube defaults to (last updated)

[B0pol]

It is not broken anymore

[SamantazFox]

@B0pol filters don't work. For instance, both of these return the same thing:

• https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UC-lHJZR3Gqxm24_Vd_AJ5Yw/playlists?sort_by=newest
• https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UC-lHJZR3Gqxm24_Vd_AJ5Yw/playlists?sort_by=oldest

[B0pol]

But then open an issue for filters, and close this one about continuation

[SamantazFox]

Also, there is no "previous page" button

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