From 3bc370d04c94d823930fc0de618f0ef75613bccf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: WardPearce <wardpearce@pm.me>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:21:26 +1300
Subject: [PATCH] Improved search URL input

---
 materialious/src/lib/components/ItemsList.svelte | 15 ++-------------
 materialious/src/lib/components/Thumbnail.svelte |  9 ++++-----
 materialious/src/lib/search.ts                   | 12 +++++++++++-
 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/materialious/src/lib/components/ItemsList.svelte b/materialious/src/lib/components/ItemsList.svelte
index 9addbf77..a6372b00 100644
--- a/materialious/src/lib/components/ItemsList.svelte
+++ b/materialious/src/lib/components/ItemsList.svelte
@@ -2,28 +2,17 @@
 	import Thumbnail from '$lib/components/Thumbnail.svelte';
 	import { _ } from '$lib/i18n';
 	import { removePlaylistVideo } from '../api';
-	import type {
-		Channel,
-		HashTag,
-		Playlist,
-		PlaylistPage,
-		PlaylistPageVideo,
-		Video,
-		VideoBase
-	} from '../api/model';
 	import { authStore, feedLastItemId, isAndroidTvStore } from '../store';
 	import ContentColumn from './ContentColumn.svelte';
 	import { onMount, onDestroy, tick } from 'svelte';
 	import Mousetrap from 'mousetrap';
-	import { extractUniqueId } from '$lib/misc';
+	import { extractUniqueId, type feedItems } from '$lib/misc';
 	import ChannelThumbnail from './ChannelThumbnail.svelte';
 	import PlaylistThumbnail from './PlaylistThumbnail.svelte';
 	import HashtagThumbnail from './HashtagThumbnail.svelte';
 
 	interface Props {
-		items?:
-			| (VideoBase | Video | PlaylistPageVideo | Channel | Playlist | HashTag)[]
-			| PlaylistPage[];
+		items?: feedItems;
 		playlistId?: string;
 		playlistAuthor?: string;
 		classes?: string;
diff --git a/materialious/src/lib/components/Thumbnail.svelte b/materialious/src/lib/components/Thumbnail.svelte
index 1fc7fa47..25d0ee35 100644
--- a/materialious/src/lib/components/Thumbnail.svelte
+++ b/materialious/src/lib/components/Thumbnail.svelte
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 	import { get } from 'svelte/store';
 	import { getDeArrow, getThumbnail } from '../api';
 	import type { Notification, PlaylistPageVideo, Video, VideoBase } from '../api/model';
-	import { createVideoUrl, insecureRequestImageHandler } from '../misc';
+	import { createVideoUrl, insecureRequestImageHandler, isYTBackend } from '../misc';
 	import type { PlayerEvents } from '../player';
 	import {
 		authStore,
@@ -248,10 +248,9 @@
 
 				{#if 'published' in video}
 					<div class="max">
-						{video.viewCountText ?? cleanNumber(video.viewCount ?? 0)} • {relativeTimestamp(
-							video.published,
-							false
-						)}
+						{video.viewCountText ?? cleanNumber(video.viewCount ?? 0)}
+						•
+						{isYTBackend() ? relativeTimestamp(video.published, false) : video.publishedText}
 					</div>
 				{/if}
 			</div>
diff --git a/materialious/src/lib/search.ts b/materialious/src/lib/search.ts
index 3b32cabe..a655103a 100644
--- a/materialious/src/lib/search.ts
+++ b/materialious/src/lib/search.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,17 @@ import { isVideoID } from './misc';
 
 function extractVideoId(url: string): string | null {
 	const urlObj = new URL(url, 'http://example.com'); // Using a base URL in case searchValue is just a query parameter
-	const videoId = urlObj.searchParams.get('v');
+
+	let videoId: string | null = null;
+	if (urlObj.hostname === 'youtu.be') {
+		videoId = urlObj.pathname.replace('/', '');
+		if (videoId === '') {
+			videoId = null;
+		}
+	} else {
+		videoId = urlObj.searchParams.get('v');
+	}
+
 	return videoId;
 }