Support wildcards in the title search

media-scrape/test/run.ts

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ import {
     dirSizeBytes,
     listScrapes,
     normalizeTitleKey,
+    normalizeTitleQuery,
     readScrapeMeta,
     ScrapeStore,
     writeScrapeMeta
@@ -1619,6 +1620,56 @@ void (async () => {
         store.close();
     });
 
+    await test("title wildcards match anywhere and stay literal for % and _", () => {
+        const dir = join(root, "title-wildcards");
+        mkdirSync(dir, { recursive: true });
+        const store = new ScrapeStore(dir);
+        const embed = (id: string, title: string) => ({
+            type: "video",
+            url: `https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=${id}`,
+            title,
+            provider: "YouTube",
+            videoUrl: `https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=${id}`,
+            imageUrl: null,
+            thumbnailUrl: null
+        });
+
+        store.insertPage([
+            message("1300", {
+                embeds: [
+                    embed("w1", "Scar Tissue"),
+                    embed("w2", "Discard the rest"),
+                    embed("w3", "Car wash"),
+                    embed("w4", "Cartoon physics"),
+                    embed("w5", "Carly and the r")
+                ]
+            })
+        ]);
+
+        const ids = (options: Record<string, unknown>) =>
+            store
+                .queryMedia({ limit: 50, ...options })
+                .map(row => row.url.split("v=")[1])
+                .sort();
+
+        // Word-prefix default: car starts a word.
+        assert.deepEqual(ids({ titleQuery: "car" }), ["w3", "w4", "w5"]);
+        // Leading *: anywhere, so scar and discard join in.
+        assert.deepEqual(ids({ titleQuery: "*car" }), ["w1", "w2", "w3", "w4", "w5"]);
+        // Trailing * behaves like the prefix form.
+        assert.deepEqual(ids({ titleQuery: "car*" }), ["w3", "w4", "w5"]);
+        // In-word wildcard after a word start.
+        assert.deepEqual(ids({ titleQuery: "c*r" }), ["w3", "w4", "w5"]);
+        assert.deepEqual(ids({ titleQuery: "c*r*" }), ["w3", "w4", "w5"]);
+        assert.deepEqual(ids({ titleQuery: "*c*r*" }), ["w1", "w2", "w3", "w4", "w5"]);
+        store.close();
+    });
+
+    await test("normalizeTitleQuery keeps stars and drops punctuation", () => {
+        assert.equal(normalizeTitleQuery("  *CaR, C*r*  "), "*car c*r*");
+        assert.equal(normalizeTitleQuery("Boat"), "boat");
+    });
+
     await test("normalizeTitleKey collapses punctuation and case", () => {
         assert.equal(normalizeTitleKey("Woman's Day: 3 Things!"), "woman s day 3 things");
         assert.equal(normalizeTitleKey("  A---B  "), "a b");