Add ability to search a video with an URL

1 files changed, 34 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/server/controllers/api/search.ts b/server/controllers/api/search.ts
index 7a7504b7d..9c2c7d6c1 100644
--- a/server/controllers/api/search.ts
+++ b/server/controllers/api/search.ts
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ import {
   videosSearchSortValidator
 } from '../../middlewares'
 import { VideosSearchQuery } from '../../../shared/models/search'
+import { getOrCreateAccountAndVideoAndChannel } from '../../lib/activitypub'
+import { logger } from '../../helpers/logger'
 
 const searchRouter = express.Router()
 
@@ -33,9 +35,16 @@ export { searchRouter }
 
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-async function searchVideos (req: express.Request, res: express.Response) {
+function searchVideos (req: express.Request, res: express.Response) {
   const query: VideosSearchQuery = req.query
+  if (query.search.startsWith('http://') || query.search.startsWith('https://')) {
+    return searchVideoUrl(query.search, res)
+  }
 
+  return searchVideosDB(query, res)
+}
+
+async function searchVideosDB (query: VideosSearchQuery, res: express.Response) {
   const options = Object.assign(query, {
     includeLocalVideos: true,
     nsfw: buildNSFWFilter(res, query.nsfw)
@@ -44,3 +53,27 @@ async function searchVideos (req: express.Request, res: express.Response) {
 
   return res.json(getFormattedObjects(resultList.data, resultList.total))
 }
+
+async function searchVideoUrl (url: string, res: express.Response) {
+  let video: VideoModel
+
+  try {
+    const syncParam = {
+      likes: false,
+      dislikes: false,
+      shares: false,
+      comments: false,
+      thumbnail: true
+    }
+
+    const res = await getOrCreateAccountAndVideoAndChannel(url, syncParam)
+    video = res ? res.video : undefined
+  } catch (err) {
+    logger.info('Cannot search remote video %s.', url)
+  }
+
+  return res.json({
+    total: video ? 1 : 0,
+    data: video ? [ video.toFormattedJSON() ] : []
+  })
+}