Looksee 0.5.11

Current unpacked release · November 2, 2026

English transcription

Transcription now uses English explicitly. Language selectors and English-letter conversion controls have been removed from the extension and account dashboard. Other language requests are rejected before processing or consuming allowance. Existing saved transcripts are preserved.

All 123 automated app tests and shipped-bundle verification pass. Reload the extension and refresh Instagram to load the updated interface.

Billing recovery

A missing PayPal checkout now returns a clear reconciliation message. The saved billing record and existing access are preserved; a replacement checkout stays blocked until reconciled. Temporary provider failures return a retryable response. A completed buyer payment and cancellation still require live acceptance.

Backups and recovery

Daily full-server backups are enabled at 03:00 UTC on the unchanged free host. Two scheduled-task executions completed, including automatic replacement at the single-backup limit. Seven daily account-database snapshots remain enabled.

The latest full-server backup was downloaded and verified against the provider checksum. Isolated Linux recovery restored all three accounts and fourteen saved transcripts. Real English processing and restart persistence passed with native tools and with the original archived x86 processor under emulation, with external networking disabled. This verifies that processor restore; production-equivalent capacity and public-tunnel failover remain untested.

Chrome Web Store publisher access is blocked by browser security review. Buyer payment, activation and cancellation, and sustained multi-user capacity remain unverified. This is early access, not a cleared commercial launch.

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Looksee 0.5.10

Previous unpacked release · November 1, 2026

Full-screen Reels feed

Controls follow the visible Reel when earlier feed items scroll away. Metadata-free feed posts resolve the owner from the active item's own profile link; neighboring media and owners are excluded. Workspace version labels now come from the installed manifest.

All 119 automated tests, the build and shipped-bundle verification pass after the November 2 hosted-service maintenance. Installed 0.5.10 started a real full-screen feed download and followed the next Reel with consistent eight-pixel top/right insets. Installed 0.5.9 also passed direct and two-post bulk downloads, local Save with independent Saved-view readback, and drawer opening; Explore and Tagged mounted controls.

Hosted-service maintenance · November 2, 2026

Silent recordings no longer create a transcript from a blank-audio marker or use a transcript credit. The repair passed real processor and live-service checks; no extension reload is needed.

English is the accepted hosted transcription path. Spanish and Hindi reference checks did not pass, so multilingual quality remains experimental. Sustained capacity and full private-host recovery remain unverified.

Hosted recordings stream to temporary storage to reduce memory use. A 595-second English recording completed and its 1,578-word transcript matched after reopening the account. The highest captured memory sample was 430 MiB on the unchanged 512 MiB free host; sustained capacity remains unverified.

Automatic daily account-database snapshots are enabled retaining seven daily recovery points and startup catch-up. The first production snapshot passed independent download, integrity and isolated account/transcript restoration. These same-host recovery points complement the retained private full-server archive. Provider-managed full-server rotation and replacement-host recovery remain open. This backend update needs no extension reload.

Installed hosted workflow verified

Installed 0.5.10 completed Google account connection, collected 24 profile posts, and transcribed a selected 44-second Reel into 12 timestamped English segments. The script reopened from the local Transcripts library and was independently read back from the Looksee account service. No manual upload or local server was required for that extension flow.

A bounded two-request overlap check returned a busy response for one request while the other completed; the rejected request succeeded on retry. This verifies busy handling and recovery for that sample, not sustained production capacity.

Paid activation/cancellation, sustained capacity and recovery remain unverified. This is early access, not a cleared commercial launch or Chrome Web Store release.

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Looksee 0.5.9

Previous unpacked release · November 1, 2026

Captionless posts

Fixes post controls waiting indefinitely on a loaded Reel when Instagram omits the caption from its metadata. The parser now accepts the observed captionless date-and-owner format while retaining the exact-post canonical check.

Two regression tests failed before the fix and pass afterward. The complete suite passes 106 tests, and shipped-bundle verification passes. Installed 0.5.9 passed direct/bulk downloads, local Save and drawer opening, but its full-screen feed failed; that case is repaired in 0.5.10. Commercial launch gates remain open.

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Looksee 0.5.8

Previous unpacked release · October 31, 2026

Audit-driven fixes

• Controls now appear on Explore and Tagged tiles. The real post owner is resolved from the post itself before anything is saved or downloaded.
• Tile controls moved to the top-left corner, above Instagram’s hover overlay, so they no longer cover the carousel, clip and pinned badges — and they reveal on hover, keyboard focus, or while a post is selected.
• Controls no longer sit inside Instagram’s post link, fixing invalid nesting and screen-reader confusion.
• The selection bar names the account a selection belongs to (“12 selected · @creator”), “Select loaded” toggles, and Escape clears the selection.
• Clicking an action on a post that is still loading now waits a few seconds instead of failing immediately.
• Save is clearly labeled: it saves to your Looksee library and never touches your Instagram account.
• Toasts separate success from error styling, sit bottom-center clear of Instagram’s Messages pill, can be dismissed with a click, and use corrected wording (“2 downloads started”).
• The reel toolbar follows the active reel and is parked away cleanly when no post is open.
• The content script stamps data-looksee-version on the page for easier support and auditing.

The 0.5.8 release suite passed 104 automated tests. Installed-browser spot checks on Reels, Explore and Tagged are recommended before wide use; see the verification status in the repository.

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Looksee 0.5.7

Previous unpacked release · October 30, 2026

On-page actions

• Compact dark select, Looksee and download controls anchored to the media corner.
• Direct post downloads without opening the research drawer.
• Persistent multiple selection with save, download and select-all actions.
• Fixed selection handoff to the extension worker, including selections retained while navigating between posts.
• Improved exact-post and carousel resolution, original image downloads, stale-control cleanup and collection across Chrome windows.

Research and accounts

Profile collection, known-metric comparisons, saved research, exports, Google sign-in and hosted transcription remain available. Link-in-bio editing has been removed.

Validation and limits

The installed release completed a single Reel download, two selected Reel downloads after navigation to another post, and a three-photo carousel download. All six files were checked on disk and in Chrome Downloads. The local release suite passed 87 tests. A save action returned a successful receipt; independent Saved-view and drawer-opening acceptance remain incomplete.

A completed live buyer payment, paid activation/cancellation, multilingual quality, host sleep/wake behavior and sustained capacity remain unverified. This is early access, not a cleared commercial launch or Chrome Web Store release.