The extension is hosted in a sibling repo and
is distributed off-store. Each WROLPi release ships the prebuilt artifacts
under wrolpi/static/extensions/ and serves them at /api/extensions/<file>:
- wrolpi-chrome.zip Load-Unpacked sideload for Chrome / Brave / Edge
- wrolpi-firefox.xpi Mozilla-signed (unlisted self-distribution),
one-click install in any Firefox
- versions.json Per-browser version metadata for the install page
Backend (modules/archive/api.py, wrolpi/root_api.py):
- POST /api/archive/upload accepts an optional repeated `tagNames`
multipart form field; the upload switch handler applies tags to the
new FileGroup via FileGroup.set_tags(). Unknown tag names are auto-
created inside a per-name SAVEPOINT so concurrent inserts on the same
novel name don't abort the transaction (Tag.name has unique=True).
- GET /api/extensions returns metadata (per-file availability + size +
versions.json contents) for the install page.
- GET /api/extensions/<filename> serves the binary, whitelisted by
filename. Firefox .xpi is served as application/x-xpinstall WITHOUT a
Content-Disposition: attachment header, so Firefox triggers its
add-on install handler instead of saving the file.
Frontend (app/src/):
- New /admin/extension page (linked from AdminRoute) detects the user's
browser via navigator.userAgent and renders an install card per
Firefox / Chromium / Other. Pulls metadata from /api/extensions to
show file size and version, and gracefully reports 'Not yet
available' when binaries are missing.
- Dashboard's Getters component supports a deep link from the
extension's 'Configure Download' button:
/?downloader=<archive|video|...>&download_url=<u1>&download_url=<u2>
On mount, the matching downloader form auto-opens with URLs pre-
filled. Query params are cleared on close so a refresh doesn't
re-open the modal.
- DownloadMenu and the per-downloader forms accept an `initialUrls`
seed via the existing `download` prop pattern, joined with newlines
for the `urls` textarea (and first URL for single-URL forms).
Behavior is fully backwards compatible: pre-existing API callers can
still POST to /api/archive/upload without `tagNames`, and the
DashboardPage modal continues to open via the existing button click
when no deep-link query params are present.
* Batch reorganization is supported for both Domain and Channel Collections.
* Batch reorganization happens when any Collection does not match the respective file format. For example, a Channel Collection file format that does not match the `yt_dlp_options.file_name_format` will show `needs_reorganization`.
* Individual Collections can always be reorganized. The reorganization is a little more aggressive. Useful for when some files may have been missed in the batch reorganization.
Introduces FileWorker for background file operations with dual-queue
architecture (public/private). Handles refresh, move, and rename tasks
with progress tracking, job completion monitoring, and batch processing.
Compares DB FileGroups to filesystem state using FileGroupDiff to detect
new/modified/deleted files. Designed for memory efficiency on Raspberry Pi.
Replacing Channels and Domains with Collection.
Moving downloading relationships from Channel to Collection.
Created domains.yaml config to manage tagged domain collections.
Adding turn-key upgrade solution in the UI.
Python 3.11 is now required, old versions were causing unpredictability in tests. (Sanic does not yet
support 3.12)
Sanic has been upgraded to 23.6.0, which is the latest version that avoids this bug:
https://github.com/sanic-org/sanic/issues/2921
New strategy for multiprocessing is to create all multiprocessing tools in one process, then fork
to other processes. The previous strategy was to declare multiprocessing tools at the top of every
file, or wherever they were needed at import/creation. Now all multiprocessing tools are attached to the
app.shared_ctx. This means `api_app` is imported in many, many places.
This forced a change in how the DownloadManager works. Previously, it would continually run
download workers which would pull downloads from a multiprocessing.Queue. Now, a single worker checks
for new downloads and sends a Sanic signal.
Flags have been reworked to use the `api_app`. I removed the `which` flag functionality because the
`which` are called at import and needed their own multiprocessing.Event.
Parsing SingleFile datetime using dates.strpdate.
Adding timezone when no timezone info is available.
Installing python-dateutil to assist in handling diverse datetime strings.
Reworking refresh progress to use idempotency to display more accurate progress. Only logging that files have been invalidated if they used to be indexed.
Clearing archives to force re-index.
Ignoring 'Unknown' author from PDF metadata. Using file_title when pdf metadata title is empty.
