buxared
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1 year ago Thanks for starting this discussion! Yes, all of the functional code is in BMRmain.py Your approach is what I originally had in mind, but I was not armed with the necessary background (I have no formal training in software engineering or web development; I have only ever used python and matlab for scientific calculations/applications) or research to learn how and to actually do that. At the time I did not know how I could incorporate (get access to/use) apis in my code. Some apis were available on subscription and a fee, and I did not want to end up paying for something that I did not know would work for sure. So, what I ended up doing was looking at one particular source: mangakakalot, and finding how search strings are used in the url, and parsing the html sources for the search results page and manga title page (which I store as strings) for relevant information. All of this happens in BMRmain.py Noob approach for sure, but it worked! We could add more sources with the same approach, but I think that might just make the code unnecessarily complex and bloated. So, in order to do it in the more streamlined and sophisticated way, with apis for each manga source, the code would need major reorganization, which I would encourage you to do if you are interested. (Fork this repository? I'm new to github too, sorry)
Funk3
I was looking at the codebase seeing where you would inject more manga apis, and it appears to be in BMRmain.py only?
If you look at other apps that do this, they tend to build a reader and allow manga source files to be external files that can be loaded to the program dependent on the user needs, and then the program standardizes the way the api is organized with the reader.
I think I need to read the codebase a little more closely, but I would like to suggest and/or assist with adding more manga sources in your initial manner, or possibly change the structure to modularize the manga sources to be external from the source code!