Adding web crawlers for more manga sites.

YF Otaku Grabber uses web crawlers (Essentially small programs used to download HTML text from the internet and extract information) to obtain the catalogue of mangas from a manga site, and also to download the manga pages from the site as well. Basically each manga site supported by YF Otaku Grabber will be associated with a web crawler that is used to download their content. YFOG comes with 3 web crawlers installed by default. One for MangaFox, MangaEden and Perve Eden.

However, more can be added.

One of the goals of YFOG is to support most, if not all of the manga hosting sites available. Therefore over time more and more web crawlers will be released by the developers of YFOG and made available to the public for download. Therefore if you wish to make use of thse web crawlers, you will need to know how to install them in the application.

Packaging

A web crawler is packaged in a folder with the name of the manga web site. So for example the web crawler for MangaEden would be packaged in a folder named "mangaeden". The names don't contain any spaces and are in all common letters.

Installing a web crawler

Step 1

Download the zip/rar file that contains the web crawler. Details as to where to download the zip/rar file from (Basically the URL) will be given by the developers when the web crawler is released.

Step 2

After downloading the zip/rar file, extract the folder containing the web crawler. Then go to the directory where you installed YF Otaku Grabber (Basically the YF Otaku Grabber Folder) and open the "extensions" folder. Then open the "mangaSiteExtensions" folder. Place the folder containing the web crawler inside of this directory. Then start up the application. You will notice the newly added manga site when you attempt choose from the list of supported web sites to download from.