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Draft PR: fix(ytmusic): make v11 cookie error actionable

Title: fix(ytmusic): surface missing secretstorage as actionable error

Branch: fix/ytmusic-v11-secretstorage

Problem

On Hyprland/Sway/i3 ytmusic: fetch playlists: yt-dlp: ERROR: secretstorage not available and WARNING: cannot decrypt v11 cookies: no key found -> ERR with no hint. Chrome 127+ v11 uses gnome-keyring/kwallet via python-secretstorage (extra/python-secretstorage on Arch). flake.nix/install.sh don't declare it, docs/youtube-music.md:124 already says chrome+gnomekeyring but the ERR doesn't point there.

Local workaround was ~/.local/share/yt-dlp-venv + ~/Work/bin/yt-dlp wrapper with PYTHONPATH — host-specific, not upstreamable, and externally-managed-environment blocks system pip.

Solution (for everyone)

  1. Deps: add python-secretstorage to flake.nix devShell and mention in docs/youtube-music.md prereqs (Arch: pacman -S python-secretstorage, Debian: apt install python3-secretstorage).
  2. Runtime: in resolve/ytdl_playlists.go:114 / resolve/resolve.go:698,780 detect secretstorage not available / cannot decrypt v11 on stderr and return a wrapped error with hint: install python-secretstorage and use cookies_from="chrome+gnomekeyring" (or brave+kwallet) — see docs/youtube-music.md:124 instead of raw yt-dlp: ERROR….
  3. Fallback: on that specific error, don't hard-fail playlists — surface as transient status (not ERR) and suggest cliamp ytmusic-login OAuth as alternative (already supported).

Changes (minimal, no venv hack)

  • flake.nix: python3Packages.secretstorage
  • docs/youtube-music.md: prereq line for python-secretstorage
  • resolve/ytdl_playlists.go, resolve/resolve.go: error wrapping for secretstorage case
  • Not included: local ytdlEnv() ~/.local/share/yt-dlp-venv PYTHONPATH hack, ui/model/view.go Kitty/Sixel cover (album-cover plugin + native view.go:750 is a separate feature PR), /tmp/cliamp_art_debug.log debug writes.

Testing

# without secretstorage
yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser chrome --simulate "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ" # → 0 cookies, WARNING
# with
sudo pacman -S python-secretstorage
yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser chrome+gnomekeyring --flat-playlist "https://www.youtube.com/feed/playlists" # → 698 cookies, no 401
cliamp # provider view R → playlists load, no ERR

Notes

  • No auto sudo — code can't install system packages for everyone, just makes failure actionable.
  • Keeps cookies_from="chrome" working for public videos; only playlist fetch needs the hint.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved yt-dlp cookie authentication errors with clearer guidance when SecretStorage is unavailable.
    • Applied the improved guidance consistently across playback, downloads, and playlist retrieval.
    • Added browser-specific cookies_from configuration guidance to help resolve keyring access issues.
    • Added persistent in-app warnings with installation and configuration instructions, including sign-in guidance when authentication is required.
  • Documentation

    • Expanded Linux keyring and cookie decryption troubleshooting guidance.
    • Added installation instructions for the required SecretStorage package on Arch and Debian/Ubuntu.

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The change detects yt-dlp SecretStorage cookie errors, propagates typed errors with browser metadata, shows setup guidance in the UI, adds SecretStorage to the development shell, and updates Linux keyring documentation.

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Cookie SecretStorage Guidance

Layer / File(s) Summary
Cookie error detection and propagation
resolve/resolve.go, resolve/ytdl_playlists.go
SecretStorage failures now use typed errors that preserve the browser and original command error. Playlist, range, and download paths provide setup guidance.
UI error handling
ui/model/update.go
Playlist and track loading display persistent SecretStorage warnings with browser-specific CookieHint guidance without setting the generic model error.
SecretStorage setup documentation
flake.nix, docs/youtube-music.md
The development shell includes python3Packages.secretstorage. Linux keyring troubleshooting documents package installation commands and the related error message.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 5fa0e

This change turns supported browser-cookie decryption failures into actionable setup guidance while retaining authentication behavior and underlying errors. No current merge-blocking risk is identified.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant YTDLP
  participant Resolve
  participant UI
  YTDLP->>Resolve: return cookie decryption failure
  Resolve->>Resolve: detect SecretStorage error
  Resolve->>UI: return ErrMissingSecretStorage with browser
  UI->>UI: show installation and cookies_from guidance
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Inline comments:
In `@resolve/resolve.go`:
- Line 41: Update wrapCookieError in the resolve package to return a typed or
contextual error without embedding installation guidance; move the user-facing
secretstorage and cookies_from guidance to the presentation boundary in main.go
or run(...), while preserving the underlying error context.
- Line 41: Update wrapCookieError and the related stderr/fallback handling in
ResolveYTDLBatch and DownloadYTDL to build cookie-install hints from the
selected browser instead of hardcoding Chrome. Preserve the appropriate keyring
suffixes, including chromium+gnomekeyring and brave+kwallet, in every emitted
recovery message.
- Line 722: Update the yt-dlp error returns associated with cmd.Output failures
to wrap the original error with %w while retaining the existing stderr message,
including the corresponding error paths in resolve.go and ytdl_playlists.go.
Preserve the current context and ensure callers can inspect the underlying
*exec.ExitError via errors.As.
- Line 724: Remove the isCookieSecretStorageError(err.Error()) fallback from the
yt-dlp error handling in the relevant resolve flows, including the logic
surrounding the resolve and ytdl playlist handling; retain secret-storage
detection only against captured cmd.Stderr output.

In `@resolve/ytdl_playlists.go`:
- Line 125: Update the SecretStorage failure handling in FetchUserPlaylists so
it returns playlist.ErrNeedsAuth alongside the wrapped error, allowing
playlistsLoadedMsg and renderTransient to use the expiring warning flow.
Preserve the provider pane’s existing generic YouTube Music empty-state hint,
including the cliamp ytmusic-login guidance.

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In `@ui/model/update.go`:
- Around line 392-396: In ui/model/update.go at lines 392-396, update the
SecretStorage branch in playlistsLoadedMsg to clear m.err before returning and
preserve m.provSignIn when errors.Is(msg.err, playlist.ErrNeedsAuth), allowing
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Chrome 127+ v11 cookies need python-secretstorage via gnome-keyring.
On Hyprland/Sway, yt-dlp fails with 'cannot decrypt v11 cookies: no key
found' / 'secretstorage not available' and surfaces as ERR without hint.

- flake.nix: add python3Packages.secretstorage to devShell
- docs/youtube-music.md: document python-secretstorage install + chrome+gnomekeyring
- resolve: wrap yt-dlp secretstorage errors with install hint

Fixes ERR for cookie-based ytmusic on Hyprland.
- resolve: define ErrMissingSecretStorage, move user guidance to
  presentation (ui/model), keep browser-specific hint via CookieHint
- resolve: build hint from selected browser (chrome/chromium+gnomekeyring,
  brave+kwallet) instead of hardcoding chrome
- resolve: wrap yt-dlp errors with %w to preserve *exec.ExitError for
  errors.As, keep stderr message
- resolve: drop isCookieSecretStorageError(err.Error()) fallback, detect
  only on captured stderr
- ytdl_playlists: return playlist.ErrNeedsAuth alongside
  ErrMissingSecretStorage for transient warning flow
Ensure SecretStorage warning clears persistent m.err and preserves
m.provSignIn when the error also wraps playlist.ErrNeedsAuth, keeping
the existing authentication recovery path.
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drmartin1998 force-pushed the fix/ytmusic-v11-secretstorage branch from 09b58bd to dd3b082 Compare September 6, 2026 01:51
Fix docstring coverage 33% -> 80% (6 functions, 1 skipped).
Add ErrMissingSecretStorage, isCookieSecretStorageError,
CookieHint, SecretStorageBrowser docstrings.

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Hey, hit this on Omarchy (Hyprland + Chromium) and wanted to add a couple of things this PR doesn’t cover yet.

The better error message is definitely needed. On my machine cliamp setup wrote cookies_from = "chrome" because I left the browser field blank, and Chrome isn’t even installed. Omarchy’s default browser is Chromium, so yt-dlp went looking in ~/.config/google-chrome and found nothing. After I switched it to chromium, Hyprland still isn’t a desktop yt-dlp recognizes, so it skipped gnome-keyring and I got the v11 “no key found” error.

The docs workaround (chromium+gnomekeyring) got past that, but then a second thing bit me: VS Code also stores a gnome-keyring item labeled Chromium Safe Storage. yt-dlp grabs the first one with that label, which was VS Code’s key, so YouTube cookies decrypted to empty values. That’s a yt-dlp bug (there’s already an open PR for it: yt-dlp/yt-dlp#13198). Omarchy ships both Chromium and VS Code, so a lot of people here will run into this.

One extra thing that might help, on top of the better error: if setup could pick a config that works on this kind of machine. For example:

  • if Chromium is installed and Chrome isn’t, don’t default to chrome
  • on Hyprland/Sway/i3, append +gnomekeyring
  • maybe actually try loading cookies during setup, like NetEase already does

Happy to test if that’s useful. Thanks for working on this.

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