From 2046e5080b1be655961b66b87cc1dacba9addf83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: William Mantly <wmantly@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2026 22:34:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Stop Smart Search recommending the wrong movie / CAMs
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TPB search is fuzzy: querying "Toy Story 5" returns Toy Story 4/3/… plus the
only real 2026 copies, which are CAM/Telesync. The LLM rejected them all, then
fallbackReleases picked the most-seeded (Toy Story 4), ignoring title/year.

Two deterministic guards:
- prefilter now drops low-quality source tags (CAM/TS/TELESYNC/SCR/…) via a
  token match, so neither the LLM nor the fallback can surface them.
- findReleases requires the confirmed TMDB year in a movie's release name, so a
  fuzzy match can't cross to a different film. If nothing survives, return no
  options and tell the user it may be unreleased / only CAMs exist.

Verified: "Toy Story 5" now returns 0 options (was Toy Story 4); Night of the
Living Dead (1990) still recommends its 1080p x265 pack.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 controller/search.js       | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 public/partial/header.html |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/controller/search.js b/controller/search.js
index 9d009fe..edd8b0d 100644
--- a/controller/search.js
+++ b/controller/search.js
@@ -100,9 +100,16 @@ async function tpbSearch(title){
 	return parseTPBHtml(await res.text());
 }
 
+// Low-quality source tags we never want to recommend( token match to avoid false hits
+// like "GHOSTS" matching "TS").
+const JUNK = new Set(['cam', 'hdcam', 'camrip', 'ts', 'hdts', 'telesync', 'tc', 'telecine', 'scr', 'screener', 'dvdscr', 'workprint']);
+function isJunk(name){
+	return String(name).toLowerCase().split(/[.\s_\-\[\]()]+/).some(tok => JUNK.has(tok));
+}
+
 // Deterministic pre-filter before the torrents ever reach the LLM.
 function prefilter(torrents, imdbId){
-	let out = torrents.filter(t => videoKind(t.category) && Number(t.seeders) > 0);
+	let out = torrents.filter(t => videoKind(t.category) && Number(t.seeders) > 0 && !isJunk(t.name));
 
 	// If we can positively identify the title by IMDB id, trust it and drop the rest.
 	if(imdbId){
@@ -244,6 +251,13 @@ async function findReleases(tmdbId, mediaType){
 	let torrents = await tpbSearch(meta.title);
 	let candidates = prefilter(torrents, meta.imdbId);
 
+	// For movies, require the confirmed release year in the name. TPB search is fuzzy
+	// (a "Toy Story 5" query returns Toy Story 4/3/…), and without this the fallback can
+	// cross to the wrong movie. If nothing matches, we genuinely have no good copy yet.
+	if(mediaType !== 'tv' && meta.year){
+		candidates = candidates.filter(t => t.name.includes(meta.year));
+	}
+
 	if(!candidates.length){
 		return { title: meta.title, year: meta.year, options: [] };
 	}
@@ -345,4 +359,5 @@ module.exports = {
 	tpbSearch,
 	parseTPBHtml,
 	sizeToBytes,
+	isJunk,
 };
diff --git a/public/partial/header.html b/public/partial/header.html
index 9cad9ae..c63df04 100644
--- a/public/partial/header.html
+++ b/public/partial/header.html
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@
 
 		// Step 3: render the release cards; a tap feeds the existing add dialog.
 		function tbpRenderReleases(data){
-			if(!data.options.length){ tbpSearchBody('<p>No good torrents found for '+ tbpEsc(data.title) +'.</p>'); return; }
+			if(!data.options.length){ tbpSearchBody('<p>No good-quality copy of <b>'+ tbpEsc(data.title) +'</b> found — it may not be released yet, or only low-quality (CAM) copies exist.</p>'); return; }
 			var header = '<h3>'+ tbpEsc(data.title +' ('+ (data.year || '?') +')') +'</h3>';
 			if(data.library && data.library.owned) header += '<p style="color:#2a2">✓ Already in your library ('+ tbpEsc(data.library.quality) +') — only upgrades are offered.</p>';
 			tbpSearchBody(header);