[Bug]: Playlists are not appearing in search results

[rjdg14]

Guidelines

• [X] I have encountered this bug in the latest release of FreeTube.
• [X] I have encountered this bug in the official downloads of FreeTube.
• [X] I have searched the issue tracker for open and closed issues that are similar to the bug report I want to file, without success.
• [X] I have searched the documentation for information that matches the description of the bug I want to file, without success.
• [X] This issue contains only one bug.

Describe the bug

1: Search for a popular topic 2: Filter the search to display only playlists 3: No results will be displayed. The software will not report any error, but will simply act as though there are no playlists to show.

Expected Behavior

Available playlists should appear in the results page

Issue Labels

API issue, content not loading, feature stopped working

FreeTube Version

v0.22.0 Beta

Operating System Version

macOS Sequoia 15.1

Installation Method

.dmg

Primary API used

Local API

Last Known Working FreeTube Version (If Any)

No response

Additional Information

The problem also seems to be affecting NewPipe on Android, which makes me suspect it's an issue caused by a recent playlist API change.

Playlists are still listed and viewable in individual channels but not in search results.

Nightly Build

• [ ] I have encountered this bug in the latest nightly build.

[absidue]

It's known that it is happening (they did it to the podcasts tab back in January and the playlists tab recently, because FreeTube already supported it for the podcasts tab it worked without changes for the playlists tab too, for other parts of the app we won't be so lucky though), it's just that because it's an A/B test, it means it only appears for some people or only sometimes and so far nobody that knows how to add support for the changes has received them.