uLauncher anime extension for linux

UNMAINTAINED

Little tool written in python to watch anime using uLauncher (the better way to watch anime)

Scrapes: https://gogoanime.wiki

[Still in development]

Dependencies:

• Python 3.0

• BeautifulSoup

• requests

• selenium

• Firefox/Chrome/Chromium

• cURL

• mpv

Install

Open uLauncher preferences window -> extensions -> add extension and paste the following url: https://github.com/Dankni95/ulauncher-anime

Install Dependencies

[ Automatic dependecy install ] cd ~/.local/share/ulauncher/extensions/com.github.dankni95.ulauncher-anime and run make deps to install dependencies.

1. Other dependencies

Get Python from: https://www.python.org/downloads/

Get mpv from: https://mpv.io/installation/

Curl should be preinstalled, if not get it from here: https://curl.se/download.html

2. Python-Libs

[ Manual dependecy install ] To install bs4, selenium, requests and webdriver-manager open a terminal and go to repo root cd ~/.local/share/ulauncher/extensions/com.github.dankni95.ulauncher-anime and execute pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Webdriver (Needs Firefox/Chrome/Chromium)

Please have one of these browsers installed: Firefox/Chrome/Chromium

Start up

Start uLauncher and type ani. To search ani s <your anime>

History

ani h shows next episode of previously watched anime.

Quality

Edit video quality in ulauncher extension preferences. All videos will be played in this quality if possible, else it will default to best possible quality.

Development

Git clone this repo.

In repo folder do make link to create symlink to ulauncher extensions folder.

Close uLauncher and run make dev and follow instructions in terminal.

You will get code that looks something like this:

 VERBOSE=1 ULAUNCHER_WS_API=ws://127.0.0.1:5054/com.github.dankni95.ulauncher-anime PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages /bin/python /home/daniel/.local/share/ulauncher/extensions/com.github.dankni95.ulauncher-anime/main.py

Paste it in new terminal window and run keyword ani in uLauncher. Happy coding!

This is one of my first python projects, in advance sorry for the spaghetti code!

Credits

This extension uses https://github.com/sdaqo/anipy-cli

This extension uses uLauncher as main driver https://github.com/Ulauncher/Ulauncher