#anime-and-manga
4 posts
2016 - June
2 posts2015 - December
1 post2015 - November
1 post2016 - June
2 posts[Manga-Downloadr] Improving the Crystal/Ruby from bursts to pool stream
Replacing request bursts with steady worker pools in Manga-Downloadr, the author cuts times to 27s in Ruby, 30s in JRuby, and 21s in Crystal, but Elixir finishes in 15s.
[Manga-Downloadr] Porting from Crystal to Ruby (and a bit of JRuby)
Porting Manga-Downloadr from Crystal to Ruby and JRuby, the author finds an almost direct translation, swaps Fibers and Channels for Threads, and shows why the test favored Elixir’s architecture.
2015 - December
1 postEx Manga Downloadr - Part 3: Mangafox Support!
Ex Manga Downloadr can now download from Mangafox using custom parsers, dynamic source selection, gzip decompression via zlib, and download resumption. Reducing the pool helps, but the site remains unstable.
2015 - November
1 postEx Manga Downloader, an exercise with Elixir
I built an Elixir scraper that parses MangaReader, downloads images with parallel Tasks, and creates 250-page PDFs for Kindle. The pipeline works, but timeouts limit it to about 80 requests.