Season_is Blacklist – Better Method than queue.json

[Sidpaker]

Hello everyone,

I'm currently setting up mdnx-auto and would like to be able to blacklist certain seasons in the config. Currently, I’m considering extracting the season_id from the queue.json, but that doesn’t feel very elegant.

Is there a better way to get the season_id before?

Thanks in advance.

[HyperNylium]

Hi!

The way i have been doing it is downloading the multi-downloader-nx CLI (multi-downloader-nx-windows-x64-cli.7z) and doing:

aniDL.exe --service "crunchy" --auth --username "ur_email" --password "ur_password" --silentAuth
aniDL.exe --service "crunchy" --srz "series_id"

If you want hidive, change the --service "crunchy" part to --service "hidive".
That will output what mdnx-auto-dl parses. you'll be able to see the series ID, season IDs, and all episodes.
You can then copy the season you want (which is in the same format as the console output, S:season_id), and paste it into your config.json.

If you want to do everything from mdnx-auto-dl, you can add these config options to your config.json's app section:

{
  "app": {
    "LOG_LEVEL": "debug",
    "ONLY_CREATE_QUEUE": true
  }
}

With LOG_LEVEL="debug", these lines will kick off, outputing the console output coming from multi-downloader-nx. which then you can copy-paste the season IDs into your config.json

mdnx-auto-dl/app/appdata/modules/API/MDNX/crunchy.py

Line 111 in ae55aaf

log_manager.debug(f"Console output for start_monitor process:\n{result.stdout}")

mdnx-auto-dl/app/appdata/modules/API/MDNX/hidive.py

Line 113 in ae55aaf

log_manager.debug(f"Console output for start_monitor process:\n{result.stdout}")

And with ONLY_CREATE_QUEUE=true, it will go through the queue generation process then exit. make sure your docker-compose.yaml's restart policy is set to no in this stage ;)

mdnx-auto-dl/app/appdata/modules/MainLoop.py

Lines 41 to 51 in ae55aaf

	refresh_ok = self._refresh_queue()
	if not refresh_ok:
	self.stop()
	return
	current_queue = queue_manager.output()
	if self.only_create_queue == True:
	log_manager.info("ONLY_CREATE_QUEUE is True. Exiting after queue creation.\nIf docker-compose.yaml has 'restart: always/unless-stopped', please change it to 'restart: no' to prevent restart loop.")
	self.stop()
	return

In the future there will be a webui where you can add series for CR or hidive. in that same add window, it would do the query and show you the available seasons/episodes and a checkbox to blacklist them so you dont have to go through all of this lol.
But, im no front-end dev and have to learn that before applying it to this project, so it is taking a little time.
Sorry for the inconvenience 😅

If you have any more questions/need more help, ask away! :)

[Sidpaker]

Hi HyperNylium,

wow, thanks a lot for the quick and detailed reply! That’s exactly what I was looking for — THX!

First of all, a huge thank you for this awesome project. It works really well. There’s absolutely no need for any kind of apology — on the contrary, I’m really glad there are people like you who take the time to create something this cool in the first place 😉

A web frontend would of course be really great and would make the setup much easier. Unfortunately, I don’t have the necessary skills for that, otherwise I’d be happy to help.

Best regards