refactor: support search caching

remains to be seen whether this is a good idea or not

ythdd_extractor.py

@@ -348,14 +348,34 @@ def WEBgetSearchSuggestions(query: str, previous_query: str = '') -> list:
 	# Takes in a search query and returns relevant suggestions.
 	# Can optionally take the previous query but that's rather novel and
 	# not supported across players nor invidious API itself.
+	
+	suggestions = []
+
+	if not isinstance(query, str):
+		print("WEBgetSearchSuggestions: query is not a string (as it should)")
+		return {}
+	if not isinstance(previous_query, str):
+		previous_query = ''
+
+	if ythdd_globals.config["general"]["cache"]:
+		# look for cached suggestions
+		for cached_search in ythdd_globals.general_cache["search"]:
+			if cached_search["q"] == query.lower() and cached_search["pq"] == previous_query.lower():
+				# found it? skip ahead
+				suggestions = cached_search["resp"]
+				break
+
+	# request wasn't cached? query the API
+	if suggestions == []:
+
 		params = {
 			'ds': 'yt',
 			'hl': 'en', # host language
 			'gl': 'us', # geolocation
 			'client': 'youtube',
 			'gs_ri': 'youtube',
-    	'q': str(query), # query
+			'q': query, # query
-    	'pq': str(previous_query) if previous_query is not None else '' # previous query
+			'pq': previous_query # previous query
 		}
 
 		response = requests.get(
@@ -363,15 +383,25 @@ def WEBgetSearchSuggestions(query: str, previous_query: str = '') -> list:
 			params=params,
 			headers=stage2_headers
 		)
+
 		# can break anytime but hopefully the tiny speed gain will make up for it
 		results = response.text[23 + len(query):]
 		results = results[:results.rfind("{") - 1]
 		results = json.loads(results)
 
-	suggestions = []
 		for result in results:
 			suggestions.append(result[0])
 
+		# cache response
+		if ythdd_globals.config["general"]["cache"]:
+			ythdd_globals.general_cache["search"].append(
+				{
+					"q": query.lower(),
+					"pq": previous_query.lower(),
+					"resp": suggestions
+				}
+			)
+
 	return {
 		"query": query,
 		"suggestions": suggestions

ythdd_globals.py

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ version = "0.0.1"
 apiVersion = "1"
 randomly_generated_passcode = 0
 video_cache = {}
+general_cache = {"search": []}
 
 def getConfig(configfile):
 	

ythdd_inv_tl.py

@@ -633,7 +633,6 @@ def parseViewsFromViewText(viewcounttext: str) -> int:
 
 def search(data, req):
 	search_query = req.args.get('q')
-	print(f"search query: {search_query}")
 
 	# ignore paginated requests as we do nothing with the continuation token
 	page = req.args.get('page')
@@ -641,7 +640,6 @@ def search(data, req):
 		return send(404, [])
 
 	if (data[-2].lower() != "search" or data[-1].lower() != "") and data[-1].lower() != "search":
-		print(f"'{data[-2]}', '{data[-1]}'")
 		previous_query = req.args.get('pq')
 		suggestions = ythdd_extractor.WEBgetSearchSuggestions(search_query, previous_query)
 		return send(200, suggestions)