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evilhero / mylar

An automated Comic Book downloader (cbr/cbz) for use with SABnzbd, NZBGet and torrents
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Prepare code to use multiple search engines #9

Closed brainkiller closed 10 years ago

brainkiller commented 12 years ago

The current search and update engine comicvine.com doesn't contain all prefered commics. Therefore it would be nice if other search engines could be used. Preparing the code for this will facilitate the implementation later on.This will also make it possible for other users to write search engines on their on without major code changes.

Possible future search engine once the API is implemented: http://www.comics.org/

evilhero commented 12 years ago

It actually compares CV agaisnt gcd (comics.org) in order to validate the information. Comicvine has information that gcd just doesn't have, and gcd doesn't have an api like comicvine does already.Web parsing on its own isn't a valid way to get primary data for this type of app as parsing in itself isn't reliable. I use it as a secondary in order to get detail info that would create too many api hits on comicvine. As far as I'm aware, comicvine contains a great majority of the comics.

Right now, this is a far away dream - I'm still refining and updating the code so who knows but unless there is some major hitch or problem, I don't think I'll be relying on webparsing alone to populate the data. Maybe if GCD would finally create an api themselves then we'd be in busness a lot easier. There was abit of talk about having one rollback vs the other but the tracking number would then be off as well.