GoogleVideo: generate instead of fetch the content url (#1691)

Seeing performance issues.

.env.defaults

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ THUMBNAIL_WIDTH=390
 THUMBNAIL_WIDTH_MOBILE=900
 THUMBNAIL_QUALITY=85
 THUMBNAIL_CDN_SIZE_LIMIT_BYTES=5242880
+PLAYER_SERVER=https://player.odycdn.com
 WELCOME_VERSION=1.0
 
 # --- Stripe ---

config.js

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ const config = {
   THUMBNAIL_WIDTH_MOBILE: process.env.THUMBNAIL_WIDTH_MOBILE,
   THUMBNAIL_QUALITY: process.env.THUMBNAIL_QUALITY,
   THUMBNAIL_CDN_SIZE_LIMIT_BYTES: process.env.THUMBNAIL_CDN_SIZE_LIMIT_BYTES,
+  PLAYER_SERVER: process.env.PLAYER_SERVER,
   SITE_TITLE: process.env.SITE_TITLE,
   SITE_NAME: process.env.SITE_NAME,
   SITE_DESCRIPTION: process.env.SITE_DESCRIPTION,

web/src/fetchStreamUrl.js

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+const Mime = require('mime-types');
+const { PLAYER_SERVER } = require('../../config.js');
 const { lbryProxy: Lbry } = require('../lbry');
 const { buildURI } = require('./lbryURI');
 
@@ -10,6 +12,30 @@ async function fetchStreamUrl(claimName, claimId) {
     });
 }
 
+/**
+ * Direct URL to the content's bits without redirects.
+ *
+ * Move back to 'utils/web' when `fetchStreamUrl` is no longer needed.
+ *
+ * @param claim
+ */
+function generateContentUrl(claim) {
+  const streamUrl = (claim) => {
+    // Hardcoded version of fetchStreamUrl().
+    return `${PLAYER_SERVER}/api/v3/streams/free/${claim.name}/${claim.claim_id}`;
+  };
+
+  const value = claim?.value;
+  if (value?.source?.media_type && value?.source?.sd_hash) {
+    const fileExt = `.${Mime.extension(value.source.media_type)}`;
+    const sdHash = value.source.sd_hash.slice(0, 6);
+    return `${streamUrl(claim)}/${sdHash}${fileExt}`;
+  }
+
+  return streamUrl(claim);
+}
+
 module.exports = {
   fetchStreamUrl,
+  generateContentUrl,
 };

web/src/metadata/googleVideo.js

@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
-const Mime = require('mime-types');
 const moment = require('moment');
 const removeMd = require('remove-markdown');
 
 // TODO: fix relative path for server
-const { fetchStreamUrl } = require('../fetchStreamUrl');
+const { generateContentUrl } = require('../fetchStreamUrl');
 const { parseURI } = require('../lbryURI');
 const { OG_IMAGE_URL, SITE_NAME, URL } = require('../../../config.js');
 const { generateEmbedUrl, getThumbnailCdnUrl, escapeHtmlProperty } = require('../../../ui/util/web');
@@ -98,10 +97,7 @@ async function buildGoogleVideoMetadata(uri, claim) {
   }
 
   const claimThumbnail = escapeHtmlProperty(thumbnail) || getThumbnailCdnUrl(OG_IMAGE_URL) || `${URL}/public/v2-og.png`;
-
-  const fileExt = value.source && value.source.media_type && '.' + Mime.extension(value.source.media_type);
-  const claimStreamUrl =
-    (await fetchStreamUrl(claim.name, claim.claim_id)).replace('/v4/', '/v3/') + (fileExt || '.mp4'); // v3 = mp4 always, v4 may redirect to m3u8;
+  const claimStreamUrl = generateContentUrl(claim);
 
   // https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/video
   const googleVideoMetadata = {