NEW FEATURES - More download options

[ErzenXz]

Hello everyone, I absolutely love FastAnime, but while trying to do some specific things i noticied that there are just some small features missing.

Example, I run jellyfin server and was trying to download 'Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods' but when i tried to download that it autoselected Dragon Ball Kai, so to solve this i did fastanime anilist, succesfully found the movie i want, but there were options to only stream and not download, so thats one. Do this for shows too, and the abiliy to select like using start:end format whitch episodes i want to download, what quality, dub or sub on the anilist menu

Second feature i want to have is for it to use like a dowloaded database file, since after I dowloaded entire Dragon Ball Z eps from 1 to 170 i wanted to dowload the rest but on jellyfin i renamed the files to E01.mp4 etc and now its retrying to download these again. My solution would be when downloading to add option like useDownloadedDB if i enable that then it would do like i want else it just normaly checks if the file exists before downloading.

AND maybe saving into Jellyfin/plex format would be awesome!

THANKS FOR THE GREAT TOOL!!

[Benexl]

Glad you enjoying it. However, on your issue, fastanime download is the one used to download anime and if auto select selects the wrong anime you can manually select by fastanime --no-auto-select download ... . Auto select runs a fuzzy match on the titles to make things more automated and convinient so the is a chance that it may be wrong. Adding jellyfin and plex format seems out of scope of what i want to achieve. I would rather you use fastanime serve or fastanime grab or the python api to create a basic site that can serve the content. Addding download feature to anilist menu won't be useful since remember its not anilist api thats providing the stream links. The problem why you did not get your intended title was because the title was prob not exact and if thats not the case you can always disable auto select. In any case i don't have time for this cause it was not in my objective for the anilist menu. And i feel the current state of the download command is perfect. Adding a download db will be overkill when you can just specify the episodes you did not download so also not interested.

[Benexl]

I have been thinking about it. And have come to the decision that I will add a db for downloads. This will have the benefit of better local previews. However, I won't include this in the anilist interfaces. Instead I'll introduce fastanime anilist download which will just be a superset of fastanime download except with anilist integration and db integration. Plus fastanime anilist downloads as a superset of fastanime downloads. So thanks for the idea. Though don't expect it to be immediately implemented. On the rest they do sound nice but I don't have that much time to do all of them since am doing everything alone and fastanime's codebase is getting bigger and bigger due to it having so many features. I will try to explore more on the jellfin and plex format later and see whether it's something I want in the project and worth my time.

[ErzenXz]

I'm glad you liked the ideas and are planning to add them in the future! It's exciting to see that you're planning to add a database for downloads and enhance local previews. The idea of creating a FastAnime Anilist download as a superset sounds like a smart approach, especially with the integration. I totally understand that implementing everything takes time, especially since you're handling it all alone. I'm looking forward to seeing how you explore the Jellyfin and Plex format—it's great that you're considering what fits best for the project. Keep up the amazing work!