falocalrepo-database 3.6.1

Database functionality for falocalrepo.

FALocalRepo-Database

Database functionality for falocalrepo.

Tables

To store its information, the database uses four tables: SETTINGS, USERS, SUBMISSIONS and JOURNALS.

Settings

The settings table contains settings for the program and statistics of the database.

• USRN number of users in the USERS table
• SUBN number of submissions in the SUBMISSIONS table
• HISTORY list of executed commands in the format [["<time1>", "<command1>"], ..., ["<timeN>", "<commandN>"]] (UNIX time in seconds)
• COOKIES cookies for the scraper, stored in JSON format
• FILESFOLDER location of downloaded submission files
• VERSION database version, this can differ from the program version

Users

The users table contains a list of all the users that have been download with the program, the folders that have been downloaded and the submissions found in each of those.

Each entry contains the following fields:

• USERNAME The URL username of the user (no underscores or spaces)
• FOLDERS the folders downloaded for that specific user.
• GALLERY
• SCRAPS
• FAVORITES
• MENTIONS this is a legacy entry used by the program up to version 2.11.2 (was named EXTRAS)
• JOURNALS

Submissions

The submissions table contains the metadata of the submissions downloaded by the program and information on their files

• ID the id of the submission
• AUTHOR the username of the author (uploader) in full format
• TITLE
• UDATE upload date in the format YYYY-MM-DD
• DESCRIPTION description in html format
• TAGS keywords sorted alphanumerically and comma-separated
• CATEGORY
• SPECIES
• GENDER
• RATING
• FILELINK the remote URL of the submission file
• FILEEXT the extensions of the downloaded file. Can be empty if the file contained errors and could not be recognised upon download
• FILESAVED 1 if the file was successfully downloaded and saved, 0 if there was an error during download

Journals

The journals table contains the metadata of the journals downloaded by the program.

• ID the id of the journal
• AUTHOR the username of the author (uploader) in full format
• TITLE
• UDATE upload date in the format YYYY-MM-DD
• CONTENT content in html format

Submission Files

The save_submission functions saves the submission metadata in the database and stores the files.

Submission files are saved in a tiered tree structure based on their submission ID. ID's are zero-padded to 10 digits and then broken up in 5 segments of 2 digits; each of this segments represents a folder tha will be created in the tree.

For example, a submission 1457893 will be padded to 0001457893 and divided into 00, 01, 45, 78, 93. The submission file will then be saved as 00/01/45/78/93/submission.file with the correct extension extracted from the file itself - FurAffinity links do not always contain the right extension and often confuse jpg and png.

Upgrading Database

The update_database function allows to upgrade the database to the current version.

Note: Versions before 2.7.0 are not supported by falocalrepo-database version 3.0.0 and above. To update from those to the new version use falocalrepo version 2.11.2 to update the database to version 2.7.0

2.7.x → 3.0.0

Information from the database are copied over to the new version, but otherwise remain unaltered save for a few changed column names in the SUBMISSIONS and USERS tables.

Files are moved to the new structure and the old files folder is deleted. Only submissions files are kept starting from version 3.0.0

3.0.x → 3.1.0

EXTRAS field in USERS table is changed to MENTIONS, and extras and Extras folders are renamed to mentions and mentions_all respectively.

3.1.x → 3.2.0

Add JOURNALS table and JOURNALS field in USERS table.

3.2.x → 3.3.0

Remove LASTSTART and LASTUPDATE entries and add HISTORY entry in SETTINGS table.

3.3.x, 3.4.x, 3.5.x → 3.6.0

Changes in database functions, simply update VERSION.