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# ani-cli web
A local web UI for a system-wide `ani-cli` install.
Current version: `0.8.13`
## Project Layout
```text
ani-cli-web/
app.py Web server, queue, watchlist, thumbnail cache, and post-download file naming.
ani-cli-web Launcher script.
VERSION Project version.
CHANGELOG.md Change history.
README.md Project documentation.
```
## Run
Start the web app with:
```sh
./ani-cli-web
```
For thumbnail debugging, run:
```sh
./ani-cli-web --debug
```
The launcher also accepts `---debug`. You can also enable debug logging with `ANI_CLI_WEB_DEBUG=1`.
Then open:
```text
http://127.0.0.1:8421/
```
By default the server binds to `127.0.0.1:8421`.
## Overview
`ani-cli-web` keeps search and download management on `/` and exposes the watchlist on `/watchlist`.
The app currently includes:
- Search against AllAnime with `sub` or `dub` mode selection.
- Episode loading for the selected result.
- Queueing downloads with editable library name, season, episode range, quality, and target folder.
- A paged SQLite-backed download queue with retry, cancel, remove, retry-failed, and clear-finished actions.
- A paged SQLite-backed watchlist with summary cards, per-show refresh, bulk refresh, source links, and thumbnail tools.
- Local thumbnail caching plus manual thumbnail upload when automatic cover lookup fails.
- Project-local runtime state under `.ani-cli-web/`.
## Search Page
The main page at `/` is where you search and queue downloads.
Workflow:
1. Search by anime title or keyword.
2. Pick a result to load available episodes.
3. Adjust library name, season, episode range, quality, and download folder.
4. Add the selected show either to the watchlist or directly to the queue.
The page also includes:
- A Defaults panel for the saved download folder, mode, and quality.
- A dependency status panel so you can see which required tools are available.
- A live queue view that refreshes automatically.
## Download Queue
The queue is stored in SQLite and shown 10 jobs at a time.
Queue actions currently available:
- `Retry` for finished or failed jobs.
- `Cancel` for pending or running jobs.
- `Remove` for completed or failed jobs.
- `Retry failed` for all failed jobs.
- `Remove finished` for completed jobs.
Downloads are staged inside the project-local app state first. After `ani-cli` finishes, files are moved into a Plex/Jellyfin-friendly layout:
```text
ANI_CLI_DOWNLOAD_DIR/anime_name/Season 01/anime_name - S01E01.mp4
```
## Watchlist
The watchlist stores one row per show in SQLite and keeps separate `sub` and `dub` episode counts.
You can add entries in two ways:
1. From the Search page with `Add to watchlist`.
2. Manually on `/watchlist` with a title and AllAnime `show_id`.
Watchlist features:
1. `Refresh` updates one tracked show.
2. `Refresh All` updates the entire watchlist.
3. `Open` jumps back to the Search page with the title pre-filled.
4. Clicking the anime title opens the AllManga source page at `bangumi/<show_id>` in a new tab.
5. `Remove` deletes the watchlist entry and clears its cached poster file.
6. Poster cards use a compact multi-column grid with pagination at 30 cards per page.
7. Summary cards show tracked shows plus total `sub` and `dub` episode counts.
### Thumbnail Behavior
Watchlist thumbnails use the local `/api/watchlist/thumb/...` route, not direct remote image URLs.
Current thumbnail behavior:
- Cached thumbnails render from the local project cache when available.
- The page adds a fresh nonce to thumbnail URLs to avoid stale browser-cached misses.
- Missing visible covers are warmed up in small batches instead of one request per card all at once.
- AnimeSchedule is tried first for cover lookup.
- If a season-labeled title fails as-is, lookup retries with simplified base-title queries.
- AniDB is used as a fallback when AnimeSchedule does not resolve a cover.
- Failed fetch attempts no longer refresh the retry window, so a bad lookup does not get stuck in an immediate repeat-404 state.
Per-card thumbnail tools:
1. `Reload` forces a fresh redownload attempt for that show's poster.
2. `Upload` appears when no thumbnail is currently available and lets you assign a local image manually.
3. Hovering the poster tile or card shows the current thumbnail source hint.
Manual uploads are saved into the same local thumbnail cache used by automatic cover downloads.
## Runtime State
All runtime state is stored under:
```text
ani-cli-web/.ani-cli-web/
```
That folder currently holds:
- `config.json`
- `queue.sqlite3`
- legacy `queue.json` migration input when present
- legacy `watchlist.json` migration input when present
- `thumbnails/`
- AniDB title cache data
- staging files for active downloads
Legacy files from `~/.config/ani-cli-web/` and `~/.local/state/ani-cli-web/` are migrated into the project-local folder automatically on startup.
## Configuration
Environment variables:
- `ANI_CLI_BIN`: path or command name for `ani-cli`; defaults to `ani-cli` from `PATH`.
- `ANI_CLI_DOWNLOAD_DIR`: initial default download folder.
- `ANI_CLI_MODE`: initial mode, `sub` or `dub`.
- `ANI_CLI_QUALITY`: initial quality such as `best`, `1080`, or `720`.
- `ANI_CLI_WEB_HOST`: server host, default `127.0.0.1`.
- `ANI_CLI_WEB_PORT`: server port, default `8421`.
- `ANI_CLI_WEB_DEBUG`: enable debug logging when set to `1`, `true`, `yes`, or `on`.
Saved defaults from the UI are written into the project-local `config.json`.
## Notes
- Watchlist and queue data are stored in the same project-local SQLite database.
- Runtime folders such as `.ani-cli-web/`, `downloads/`, and Python bytecode cache directories at any depth are ignored by git.