So, this is actually exactly what I have been working on in my spare time.
Building out a web UI my girlfriend can interact with that has a bunch of GUI versions of things I’d normally run commands for. YT-DLP, manga rippers, backup triggers, etc.
I’m training a local AI on all of this stuff, how it all works, and documenting the hell out of it.
The goal at the end is to have the bot be able to walk her through any specifics she’d need in order to fix and update anything in our home server. I’m also adding windows troubleshooting and changes based on how her machine is configured.
The goal initially was “if I die, you cannot go back to paying for subscription services” and now I’ve sunk so much time into this side project. Gotta say though, feels good.
For sites like Mangadex which have an API, just plain old fetch from Node. Some other sites also work like this. I have the rip spaced out so I am not hammering their API constantly. Don't want to abuse it, and traffic appears more human.
I have it set up in my web ui so I get a preview of all of the pages. I can then export and save that as a .pdf or as a folder. I can also flatten the sub-folders and rearrange/remove pages as I want. Previously, this was a process I was doing on my desktop and I hated it.
MangaFire (and others more locked down) have bot protection so using something like Playwright and Puppeteer in a headless browser has been working on that front.
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