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19/01/2021 20:36 — nullsudd

Hey Admin, given the attack on nyuu's code I'm wondering if you have a plan if they come for you?

Also, thanks so much for your recent logistics page. Last summer I asked about doing a "jav tosho" which I made some small progress on. Mainly I learned I don't have to money to do what I want to do now and your page confirmed my cost estimates. Still hoping for a better paying job so I can make it happen one day.

20/01/2021 02:19 — admin

Are you referring to the Nyaa.si repository takedown?
If someone decides to send takedowns to my repositories, then there's not really anything that can be done about it. They aren't necessary for this site to function though, so I'm not seeing much concern.

Glad you found the info useful and good luck on your project when you get back to it!

29/01/2021 10:38 * — Anonymous: "Laura from FirstMan.co"

[spam]

19/01/2021 23:48 — Anonymous

Any idea what happened to MTBB's episode 2 of Mushoku Tensei? I could have sworn I saw it listed before.

20/01/2021 00:55 * — Gurphy_TC

Moderator Invisible Avatar - Patent Pending

Access with:

https://animetosho.org/view/n1329215

It was mis-listed, now corrected.

20/01/2021 02:20 — admin

Should be fixed now, thanks for reporting.

20/01/2021 02:40 — Anonymous

Thank you!

19/01/2021 23:53 — Anonymous

Hey devs,

Could the feed.animetosho.org API be enhanced to support the "total" number of items returned by a search as indicated in the newznab standards?

https://newznab.readthedocs.io/en/late...pi/#search

NZBHydra2 is a popular Usenet meta search aggregator used in the media server community and the dev is requesting that this be implemented so that it can support AnimeTosho as an indexer better.

https://github.com/theotherp/nzbhydra2/issues/667

20/01/2021 02:58 * — admin

Thanks for pointing that out.
Unfortunately, I'm a rather hesitant to implement a total (which is why it isn't there). The problem is, to get this figure, the script needs to issue a SELECT COUNT query with the same set of filters used in search. To put it another way, every time someone makes an API call, the script would effectively need to perform two searches - one to grab the results, and a second to grab the total.
In terms of resource usage, it's likely worse than 2x server load, because the results query only need to find 75 records, whereas the count query needs to find all of them (though it may be possible to put a cap on this).

It may be possible to selectively include a total, but it likely won't help your cause. If you or anyone knows of an efficient way to get counts in Sphinx Search and MySQL, I'm willing to investigate it (I tried searching, but couldn't find anything).
Otherwise, it's a maybe at best. The API gets >1M hits per day, and adding a total is a fair chunk of additional load for a relatively inconsequential (at least in my opinion) thing, but I'm not completely against the idea, as it is probably more in line with other implementations.

Note that results on this website don't display totals; navigation is done via Next/Previous links for this very reason.

Aside rant: I really don't like how Newznab's API has effectively become a standard - it's rather unfriendly to third party implementations (which is fair, since I doubt it was an aim of their design). I can kinda see why such has become the case, but it could be beneficial if a standard, which isn't so tied to an implementation, gets widely adopted. If the API supported AniDB, for example, you wouldn't be as reliant on full text indexing just to find entries for a particular series.

20/01/2021 04:51 — Anonymous

Thanks for the fast reply!

I have minimal experience with full text search engines and decent experience with SQL databases. When the API performs a search query on behalf of a user, does the search engine/DB only return the subset/limit? Is it more expensive to filter the limit at the search engine/DB level? To get what items to return the search engine/DB has to query all records anyways before limiting.

For example, if I query for a series that has 150 items and the limit is 50, then the script calls for the search engine to find all 150 items. Once the items are known, do a sum of items and also use the offset/limit to determine which items to return as pagination. I suppose this can be done by script or in SQL.

http://andreyzavadskiy.com/2016/12/03/...ne-select/

20/01/2021 05:00 — Anonymous

On further look, I think you can use the sphinx_total_found meta attribute.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57...-in-sphinx

20/01/2021 06:05 — admin

does the search engine/DB only return the subset/limit?

Yes, a LIMIT clause is being used.

Is it more expensive to filter the limit at the search engine/DB level?

No, it's generally best to do the filtering on the DB side.

For example, if I query for a series that has 150 items and the limit is 50, then the script calls for the search engine to find all 150 items.

The problem is if there happens to be 100,000 items - trying to pull these off disk into memory isn't going to be performant.
With a limit set to 50, you only need to read 50 items off disk instead of 100k.

On further look, I think you can use the sphinx_total_found meta attribute.

Thanks for finding that. I'm not sure why my searches didn't find the SHOW META query. This looks feasible, but will only work if a search is being performed (which is probably all that these apps care about anyway).

I've added to the API now so hopefully it starts showing up now (cached result sets may take a while to clear).
Thanks for the tip!

20/01/2021 15:52 — Anonymous

Thanks! I believe this is perfect.

21/01/2021 12:57 — Anonymous

This season's waifu is the spider? admin is hentai, and now I REALLY feel at home here ;)

21/01/2021 13:46 — Anonymous

I can't see the waifu.

21/01/2021 23:34 — admin

I REALLY feel at home here

Do you have spiders hanging from your ceiling, watching your every move?

21/01/2021 23:37 — Anonymous

I'm out to kill, I have my spray
But where is *it*? It slipped away
It was right there, the hairy beast
Six centimeters long, at least

Was there a movement over there?
Underneath that leather chair
It looked much bigger than before
Oh my god...could there be more?

Now, with my weapon in my hand
It says "Kills Bugs!" right on the can
I take a look under the chair
And there is...

...nothing scary there

I'm breathing very slowly now
I have to kill the thing, but how?
It could be hiding anywhere
Where is the monster? Now I'm scared

I look around, I try to keep
Where I can see it if it creeps
Across the floor to get to me
Now where the hell the thing could be?

And then a though - the place I missed
And then I know just where it is
I raise my head...

...towards the ceiling...

....a black shape coming down...

...all terror, all hair, all legs...down...

...on my face...

...it's on my face MY GOD THE THING IS ON MY FACEEEE!!!!!!!!!

21/01/2021 13:53 — Anonymous

It's on the left side of the page, when you scroll down; You can also open the Style menu and see a list of previous seasons waufus.

21/01/2021 19:50 — Anonymous

>current style: unnamed
her name is Kumoko, please fix this or she'll eat you in your sleep >:[

21/01/2021 20:53 — Anonymous

:) ;)

21/01/2021 23:31 * — admin

That sounds exhilarating. ;)
...but don't tell anyone else that.

(I'm just going with what was stated in the first episode. I know there's the ending song, but "Kumoko" (Miss Spider?) doesn't seem like much of a name either. Debatable I suppose. Also avoiding any info beyond episode 1 of the anime)

23/01/2021 21:04 — Anonymous

Hi admin -- Thanks so much for making Animetosho available.

I download through USENET (GIgaNews with the Usenet Explorer application), and in the past month or so almost all posts have been incomplete, in the range of 95-99%. Therefore, my request is to add more PAR2 data to your USENET posts. Doubling your current default PAR2 size should be sufficient to allow the data to be decoded. Thanks again!

24/01/2021 00:57 — admin

Thanks for the info - PAR2 redundancy has now been increased to 10%.

23/01/2021 23:11 — Aryma

siscon

https://animetosho.org/view/ember-log-...p.n1330436

this is wrong episode number, episode 03 is not aired yet

24/01/2021 00:57 — admin

Thanks, fixed.

24/01/2021 05:51 — Anonymous

"[SubsPlease] Urasekai Picnic - 03" seems to be completely missing even though entries dated just before/after are correctly present. Am I blind or is this just a scraper glitch?

24/01/2021 07:21 — Anonymous

Nevermind, they now appear to be on there.

24/01/2021 09:27 — admin

Looks like it could've been a glitch. Fixed it anyway, thanks for bringing that up.

28/01/2021 16:42 — DrunkenBoxPainter

Admin can you add mega.nz links as well? They are quite popular for fast speed. Plz consider.

28/01/2021 16:46 — Anonymous

Subject's been discussed before. Mega is said to be incompatible with AT's automation.

They were used here long ago until they changed their policies to make themselves unusable here.

28/01/2021 17:34 — Anonymous

mega's free account limits wouldn't cover a fraction of AT's daily use.

28/01/2021 17:39 — Anonymous

*wouldn't cover more than a fraction*

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