BiliBili

What does logging in get you?

• Subtitles
• Greater than 480p quality
• Premium content
• View and save private playlists
• View and save subscriptions list
• Prevents some rate limiting/captcha scenarios

Development

1. npm run npm-dev or bun run bun-dev
2. load BiliBiliConfig.json into Grayjay

TO-DO

• Figure out captcha verification for space posts and space videos or at least proper rate limiting error messages The captcha only shows up for posts. for videos there is just a login prompt that shows up whenever taking an action However once the posts captcha is done the login prompts stop Clear site data and go to https://space.bilibili.com/<space id>/dynamic and scroll down until the captcha shows up
• Write tests for regex matching and testing code
• Write tests for the all of the request functions to continually verify that they are retrieving expected data
  • bangumi with free and premium content https://www.bilibili.com/bangumi/play/ss43366
  • course with free and premium content https://www.bilibili.com/cheese/play/ss410
  • creator premium video https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV12z421y7Lw
• Write tests for all the utility functions
• Review TODOs in the code
• Review the hardcoded costants
• We might need to create id prefixes there are a lot of number ids and the different types probably overlap I don't quite understand the usefulness of the ids though
• Add in function and property documentation
• Add playback tracker so that the homepage reflects and adapts to what you watch
• Add a logging option that will log the urls, headers, and results of all network requests
• Implement live chat websocket protocol
• Fix the local caching to use saveState
• Reduce the lines of code somehow
• Show a locked content object for inaccesible premium content
• Investigate and handle other url types (mobile video links?)
• Handle correctly formatted links that don't actually point to any content
• there is additional content on the home page that we can consider loading in the future
• consider switching from like rating to 0-10 scale rating for bangumi
• playlist search should be redone but there needs to be better support for playlist search in Grayjay
• this is a sort of playlist that we might consider adding support for https://www.bilibili.com/blackboard/era/YyCI1Zsg5iUjelX2.html
• consider switching from using JSON apis to HTML with regex. this could improve performance because the latency of the html is less than the json
• remove bad post search results that are simply duplicates to video search results
• bangumi should have a creator page per show based off https://www.bilibili.com/bangumi/media/md28339940
• implement monitization/merch features
• (should be fixed now) there is an issue where space_request doesn't work right. it might be ip address allow list related. like watching a video seems like it might make things work in the future
• update to use the new playlist api to get channel playlists
• futo-org/grayjay-android#1273

Pending Fixed Grayjay Bugs

Grayjay Bugs

• HLS for live streaming is a little wonky in the UI
• Something glitchy with the posts tab on the subscriptions page
• Opening direct links to posts doesn't work
• When making a live PlatformVideoDetails the video option needs to be a blank VideoSourceDescriptor which is kinda weird
• the getSubtitles call is wrapped in an exception swalling thing so when i was hitting a non allow listed domain it was just silently failing
• Support for playlists, posts, movies, shows, and custom playlist types as search feed type
• The removal of elements from the getlivechatwindow doesn't work likely because it runs before the elements have been created
• Searching from the subscriptions page doesn't searchyour subscriptions it searches everything
• Ordering options and filters can not be specified on a per feed type basis
• Issues with passing search feed type to search api calls
  • when searching from the main home page search type in the search function call is always null regardless of what is set in getsearchcapabilities
  • when searching channel contents from a channel page search type in the searchChannelContents function call is always null regardless of what is set in getsearchchannelcontentscapabilities
  • getchannelcapabilities and getchannelcontents don't ask for LIVE or POSTS types
• the first time when trying to open a channel link the app will say the link isn't supported
• non utf characters don't get saved to the filename when exporting. this is really bad for simplified chinese characters
• when playling a playlist the UnavailableException doesn't display and the playlist simply skips the video
• removing a downloaded playlist doesn't remove the downloads (essentially a storage leak)