From 98a7965c52a653f32908cd6601fb9119ef712f8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: fullsizemalt <106900403+fullsizemalt@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2025 22:33:51 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] fix: Handle escaped markdown in youtube import parser

---
 backend/import_youtube.py | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/backend/import_youtube.py b/backend/import_youtube.py
index 9a15e37..645c92a 100644
--- a/backend/import_youtube.py
+++ b/backend/import_youtube.py
@@ -18,21 +18,33 @@ def parse_youtube_md(filepath: str) -> list:
     with open(filepath, 'r') as f:
         content = f.read()
     
+    # Clean up escaped characters from markdown first
+    content = content.replace('\\`', '`').replace('\\-', '-').replace('\\_', '_')
+    
     # Find JSON block (between ```json and ```)
-    match = re.search(r'```json\s*\n?\s*(\[.*?\])', content, re.DOTALL)
+    match = re.search(r'```json\s*\n?\s*(\[.*)', content, re.DOTALL)
     if not match:
         print("No JSON block found in file.")
         return []
     
     json_str = match.group(1)
-    # Clean up escaped characters from markdown
-    json_str = json_str.replace('\\-', '-').replace('\\_', '_')
-    
+    # Find the array - it may not be closed properly, so we find opening [ and match to end
+    # Try to parse as much valid JSON as possible
     try:
-        return json.loads(json_str)
-    except json.JSONDecodeError as e:
-        print(f"JSON parse error: {e}")
-        return []
+        # Try to find a complete JSON array
+        return json.loads(json_str.split('```')[0].strip())
+    except json.JSONDecodeError:
+        # If that fails, try line-by-line parsing
+        lines = json_str.split('\n')
+        videos = []
+        for line in lines:
+            line = line.strip().rstrip(',')
+            if line.startswith('{') and line.endswith('}'):
+                try:
+                    videos.append(json.loads(line))
+                except json.JSONDecodeError:
+                    continue
+        return videos
 
 def normalize_title(title: str) -> str:
     """Normalize song title for matching."""