Answer searches from YouTube InnerTube directly with yt-dlp fallback

server/server.js

@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ import { registerNoteRoutes, parseLrc, sanitizeLyrics } from './notes.js';
 import { createRemoteHub } from './remote.js';
 import { createPartyHub } from './party.js';
 import { registerUploadRoutes } from './uploads.js';
+import * as innertube from './innertube.js';
 import QRCode from 'qrcode';
 import { dirname, join as pathJoin } from 'node:path';
 
@@ -382,12 +383,23 @@ app.get('/api/search', async (c) => {
   let mine = [];
   try { mine = (await notesDb.listUploads({ q, limit: 20 })).map(uploads.card); } catch { /* library optional */ }
   try {
-    const out = await runYtdlpResilient([
-      `ytsearch${SEARCH_LIMIT}:${q}`,
-      '--dump-json', '--flat-playlist',
-      '--no-warnings', '--ignore-errors',
-    ]);
-    const results = [...mine, ...parseCards(out)];
+    let yt = [];
+    if (process.env.SEARCH_INNERTUBE !== '0') {
+      try {
+        yt = await innertube.search(q);
+      } catch (e) {
+        console.warn(`[search] innertube failed, using yt-dlp: ${e.message}`);
+      }
+    }
+    if (!yt.length) {
+      const out = await runYtdlpResilient([
+        `ytsearch${SEARCH_LIMIT}:${q}`,
+        '--dump-json', '--flat-playlist',
+        '--no-warnings', '--ignore-errors',
+      ]);
+      yt = parseCards(out);
+    }
+    const results = [...mine, ...yt];
     if (searchCache.size >= SEARCH_CACHE_MAX) searchCache.delete(searchCache.keys().next().value);
     searchCache.set(cacheKey, { results, expiresAt: Date.now() + SEARCH_CACHE_TTL_MS });
     return c.json({ ok: true, results });