Features

• Comment loading mode selection - Add dropdown selector for choosing between "Top (filtered)" and "Newest (full, default)" comment sort orders (#129)
• Age-restricted video support - Add detection and authorization support for age-restricted videos via LOGIN_REQUIRED status detection (#125)

Fixes

• Chat replay loading for logged-out users - Auto-fallback to HTML parsing when PBJ response lacks response property (#130)

Features

• YouTube Community Posts support - Extension now supports searching comments on YouTube Community Posts pages (#119)
• Member-only detection for community posts - Community posts with member-only content are now properly detected (cc784d0)
• Timestamp sort option - Added option to sort timestamp comments by video time instead of position (#118)
• Clear button visibility - Show clear button when search results are displayed (3122fe9)

Fixes

• Empty query search - Return all results when search query is empty (ac6cdd5)
• XSS prevention - Fix comment formatting and prevent potential XSS attack (#122)
• Popup error - Fix baction error when clicking YCS toolbar button outside of YouTube (#121)
• Dropdown interference - Prevent YCS from interfering with YouTube native dropdowns (#120)

Fixes

• Comment attachment alignment - Fixed vertical alignment of attachments in comment text to align with text bottom (98c0cd9)
• Options page layout - Moved YouTube Data API settings section outside of Filter Buttons group for better organization (0d42c56)

Fixes

• Number formatting collision - Fixed unit suffix matching that incorrectly parsed language words like German "Antworten" as numeric values (#115)

Features

• Nested comments support - Display and export replies to replies (subThreads) with proper indentation and tree structure (#114)

Fixes

• YouTube Data API time format parsing - Handle various YouTube URL time formats including pure seconds, HMS format, and HTML entity encoded ampersands (1f10303)

Features

• YouTube Data API v3 support: Add optional YouTube Data API v3 integration as an alternative to Innertube API, with secure API key isolation in background service worker and chunked transfer for large comment datasets (750d647, #112)
• Live chat recording: Add real-time live chat recording for YouTube live streams with automatic error recovery, token refresh handling, and resume support (77b83e4, #111)
• Shorts support toggle: Add option to completely enable/disable YCS functionality on YouTube Shorts pages (3aeb528)

Fixes

• Transcript export format: Restore backward-compatible text export format with Time field appearing before content (3ca565b)
• Modal and cache metadata: Restore modal open/close functionality and fix live recording cache to preserve original video context when user navigates away (cbc3836)

Features

• Separate hidden-by-default setting for Shorts pages - Added independent visibility control for YouTube Shorts pages, allowing different default visibility behavior from regular video pages (d79bd01)

Fixes

• YouTube Shorts UI - Dynamically adjust engagement panel height based on ycs-app presence (#105)

Features

• YouTube Shorts support - Extension now works on /shorts/ pages with optimized layout (#103)
• Membership content support - Access member-only chat messages and badges via SAPISID authentication (#101)
• Interactive timestamp visualization - Visual chart showing comment density across video timeline with click-to-filter (#100)
• Customizable filter buttons - Drag-and-drop reordering and enable/disable 13 filter buttons in options page (#96)
• Transcript language selection - Choose from 15+ languages with dynamic switching support (#97)
• Multiple export formats - Dropdown menu for exporting comments/chat/transcript as .TXT, .JSON, or .XLSX (#94)

Fixes

• Chat replay positioning - Chat replays now correctly start from video beginning with playerSeek support (#91)
• Transcript duration parsing - Fixed missing duration data in exported transcripts from timedtext XML format (cc73ce1)

Features

Enhanced Filtering (requires cache reload)

• Donated Comments Filter (#66): Filter and display comments with donation badges, showing amount and custom colors
• Timestamp Filter (#67): Enable timestamp-based filtering for chat replay messages
• Member Badge Improvements (#62, #63): Enhanced member badge and creator heart tooltip extraction

UI/UX Improvements

• Better Extension Insertion (#70): Improved extension insertion point selection with multiple fallback options
• Insertion Point Priority: New selector priority order (#expandable-metadata → #ticket-shelf → legacy selectors)

Fixes

• Pinned Comment Deduplication (#69): Resolved duplicate parent comments in pinned comment threads
• Filter Support Matrix (#67): Corrected filter availability display for chat and transcript modes
• HTML Entity Encoding (#61): Fixed double-encoding issues in exported content

Improvements

Updated to support YouTube's new innertube Chat Replay API while maintaining backward compatibility with legacy API.

Fixes

Improved the initialization process when navigating between YouTube pages.
This update should fix most cases where the extension panel didn’t show up on video pages.

Corrected the extension name strings under locales/.
The issue was introduced by the new release process and has now been fixed.

Note

Starting from this release, no further implementation (commits) will occur in this repository.
Since the original YCS source code has been made available, all "YCS-cont" works have been migrated to this branch: https://github.com/pc035860/YCS/tree/ycs_cont_migration.
These changes will eventually be merged back into https://github.com/sonigy/YCS.

For now, I'll provide the commits related to specific fixes/features, in case anyone wants to examine the changes made.

Fixes

• Add a fallback for Innertube config data retrieval (#48)
• commit: pc035860/YCS@18b1794
• Support updated YouTube display (#49, #50, #51)
• commit: pc035860/YCS@70d90d0

Fix YouTube transcript loading issue.

Improve cache-loading performance