[Bug] Search API: description and descriptionHtml always empty

[elblogbruno]

Describe the bug When querying the search endpoint on my Invidious instance, the description and descriptionHtml fields are always empty. This happens even if I add the parameter extend_desc=true (that i believe its an ui variable)

Example request:

https://instance.com/api/v1/search?q=test&type=video&sort_by=relevance&page=1&extend_desc=true

Response snippet (truncated for clarity):

{ "title": "…", "videoId": "…", "author": "…", "viewCount": 16453, "description": "", "descriptionHtml": "" }

Steps to Reproduce Run a search query against an Invidious instance, e.g. https://instance.com/api/v1/search?q=camara&type=video&sort_by=relevance&page=1&extend_desc=true

Check the JSON response for any of the returned videos.

Notice that description and descriptionHtml are always empty.

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Additional context Issue persists across multiple queries and video results.

Browser/OS not relevant (bug is in API response).

[Fijxu]

Seems like where the description used to be stored on the youtube JSON, is no longer there and it changed completely.

Now is inside detailedMetadataSnippets.snippetText:

"detailedMetadataSnippets": [
    {
        "snippetText": {
            "runs": [
                {
                    "text": "Pass with 30 correct answers 🤯\n\nPlayQuiz Networks 🌎:\n-TWITCH: https://www.twitch.tv/playquiz\n-TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com ..."
                }
            ]
        },
        "snippetHoverText": {
            "runs": [
                {
                    "text": "From the video description"
                }
            ]
        },
        "maxOneLine": false
    }
],

Is just a small description, although I'm not really sure if before it used to be a long description or something like that.