Categories fix for yt-dlp

backend/app.js

@@ -159,6 +159,7 @@ app.use(bodyParser.json());
 
 // use passport
 app.use(auth_api.passport.initialize());
+app.use(auth_api.passport.session());
 
 // actual functions
 

backend/downloader.js

@@ -203,7 +203,6 @@ async function collectInfo(download_uid) {
         options.customOutput = category['custom_output'];
         options.noRelativePath = true;
         args = await exports.generateArgs(url, type, options, download['user_uid']);
-        args = utils.filterArgs(args, ['--no-simulate']);
         info = await exports.getVideoInfoByURL(url, args, download_uid);
     }
 
@@ -528,7 +527,8 @@ exports.generateArgs = async (url, type, options, user_uid = null, simulated = f
 exports.getVideoInfoByURL = async (url, args = [], download_uid = null) => {
     return new Promise(resolve => {
         // remove bad args
-        const new_args = [...args];
+        const temp_args = utils.filterArgs(args, ['--no-simulate']);
+        const new_args = [...temp_args];
 
         const archiveArgIndex = new_args.indexOf('--download-archive');
         if (archiveArgIndex !== -1) {

backend/package.json

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
     "compression": "^1.7.4",
     "config": "^3.2.3",
     "express": "^4.17.3",
+    "express-session": "^1.17.3",
     "fluent-ffmpeg": "^2.1.2",
     "fs-extra": "^9.0.0",
     "jsonwebtoken": "^8.5.1",