anime-scrapers

Anime scrapers is a collection of scrapers that have been all unified.

Table of Contents

• Installation
  • Mac / OSX
  • General Installation
• Usage
  • Functions
    • Handlers
      • Scraper Handler
      • Download Handler
      • Info Handler
  • Individual Scraper Functions
• Contributing
  • URL Handling (matching_urls)
  • Adding a Scraper
  • Adding a Downloader
  • Adding an Info Collector
• Credits

Installation

Mac (OSX)

• Install Brew
• Install python3
  • brew install python3
• Continue to general installation

General Installation

• Clone repository
  • git clone https://github.com/jQwotos/anime_scrapers
• Nav into repo
  • cd anime_scrapers
• Install required python packages
  • pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

anime_scrapers is the backend that is to be used by other applications. You can however use it directly if you want by using the python shell, but it's better to use an application.

Functions

Handlers

Handlers are all classes, however each of them also have premade variables so you don't need to create a new object each time.

For example scraper_handler.py has

class ScraperHandler():

and

var scraper_handler

scraper_handler

• search(query, limited_modules[])
  • Searches all scraper modules (or specified ones)
• resolve(link)
  • Finds matching function in module and returns proper response

download_handler

• resolve(link)
  • Takes in a download data (typically gotten from a scraper_handler resolve)

  {
    'epNum': 'name of file',
    'sources': [
      'link': 'link',
      'type': 'typically mp4 or iframe',
    ]
  }
  

info_handler

For information gathering, use the info_handler.py. The functions are -

# strict is a boolean, which if True, searches for exact query only.
search(query, strict):
  return [
    {
      'id': 'id of the show (int)',
      'titles': 'Other names of the show (str)',
    }
  ]

getDetailedInfo(id):
  return [
    {
      'id': 'return the id from the parameter (int)',
      'other-show-stuff': 'Other info related to show.
      			  See anidb.py in info_collectors for example',
      ...
    }
  ]

Individual Scraper Functions

scrape_all_show_sources(link):
  return {
    'episodes': [
      {
        'epNumber', 'number as a string',
        'sources', sourceType
      }
    ],
    'title': 'title of the show',
    'status': 'status of the show',
    'host': 'host such as gogoanime',
    'released': 'year released as a string',
  }

search(query):
  return [
    {
      'link': 'link to the show',
      'title': 'title of the show',
      'language': 'sub or dub',
    },
  ]

_scrape_video_sources(link):
  return {
    'epNum': 'episode number as a string',
    'sources': sourceType
  }

SourceTypes are in the following format.

[
  {
    'link': 'link to the mp4 or iframe embed',
    'type': 'mp4 or iframe',
  }
]

Contributing

Want to add a downloader or scraper or info collector? Each module must have

• URL Handeling / a matching_urls variable that looks like this.

URL Handling (matching_urls)

Most functions will go through functions until there is a matching url schema. Each scraper contains the following variable which is used by the handler in order to identify the correct module to use when resolving links.

matching_urls = [
  {
    'urls': ['regex match expression'],
    'function': function that should be called,
  },
]

Adding a Scraper

Scrapers handle search queries, scraping episodes from hosts and scraping sources from those episodes.

Refer to Functions for data formatting

Scrapers should have a couple of functions

• search
• scrape_all_show_sources
  • scrapes all show details and episodes along with their direct sources

Optionally there can also be

• _scrape_episode_source
  • scrapes a single episode's source

Scrapers should be put into the scrapers folder

Adding a downloader

Downloaders are what extract the direct link the the video file or download the file based off a filename.

Downloaders need these functions.

• download(link, filename)
  • returns True when download is successful or false if failed.

Downloaders should be put into the downloaders folder

Adding an information collector

Information collectors collect various information about a particular anime series/movie.

They need these functions, which are mentioned in details above.

• search
• getDetailedInfo

Info collectors should also have the following variables

• matching_urls

• Put them in the info_collectors folder

Credits

• jQwotos
• FadedCoder
• DxCx (NineAnimeUrlExtender)