A 2026-06-12 session uncovered a 25-day silent failure in the YouTube Taste Amplifier's OAuth pipeline: the keepalive cron had been running on schedule, successfully refreshing the access token, while the underlying OAuth client had been deleted by Google on day 31 of inactivity. The fix wasn't a longer-running…
1. ** When the refresh fails, the next-line activity call never runs.
What was not working: the activity that Google uses to decide whether to keep the OAuth client alive. " The renewal script exchanges tokens — it never exercises the API those tokens unlock.
The 25-day backlog of likes that will be ingested once the new token lands is the user's compounding return on picking the watchdog over the manual check. This is what Cost Of Being In The Loop would name if it existed yet: the cost of being in the…
youtube-token-keepalive.py) ran every 2 days at 09:00.…
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