Bad News -- pixiv Blockage

Update:
The block has been lifted, and does not seem to have been intentionally placed. It's hard to say what happened, as we have been indexing their site without issue since 2009, but their willingness to work with us to get the problem resolved was awesome. We really appreciate it.

Our thanks go out to everyone who helped us bring this issue to their attention so quickly, and to the wonderful people at pixiv. May their site continue to thrive~


Well, I hate to say it, but pixiv seems to have blocked the update server... I could just change IPs, the block is very specific, but that's not the point. We can only hope they will come to their senses and allow such a useful service to continue indexing their site...


It seems incredibly short sighted for them to block a service which makes their site significantly more accessible to the community, especially so soon after they expanded internationally... I've sent them a few messages in different ways, so we'll see if they feel like replying.


If you find the pixiv index useful, re-blog this, re-tweet the relevant messages on the SauceNAO twitter feed, e-mail them, and/or do what ever you can to GET THEIR ATTENTION.


Spread the word. If they can't hear us, nothing will change.

pixiv -- Automated Updates

As announced on the twitter account, pixiv index updates were fully automated a few days ago. Assuming the updater performs reliably, and pixiv doesn't make any more sweeping changes, (wishful thinking) this automation will save quite a bit of time -- and provide a much more useful and relevant index... (two birds with one stone? ;P)

The current setup deploys a new set roughly every four to five hours, and seems to be working relatively well so far. Since there were no serious issues with the deployment, the frequency may be tweaked somewhat, but updating too often could put unnecessary strain on the various resources involved. We'll just have to see how it goes~


If anyone has any _reasonable_ ideas on how the various other indexes could be automated, (or 'outsourced' ;P) I'd love to hear them. Properly maintaining the currently deployed indexes would take an enormous amount of time, so invariably more important things come up and push even much needed updates aside...

Image Search Options for Chrome

The Image Search Options Firefox Extension has now been 'ported' to chrome! I use ported very loosely, as this was effectively a complete rewrite, and the two share absolutely no code... Somewhat annoying... >_<

This extension is more in line with v1.x of the Firefox extension, it does not yet have anywhere near the same level of extensibility as v2.x, and due to the huge limitations placed on chrome extensions when compared to the complete access provided by Firefox, it may never get there. I'm fairly new to chrome extensions so we'll just see how it goes.

Image Search Options for Chrome

H-Anime Index Updated

Figured it was about time to bring this index current again, overall not too much new stuff in the first half of the year... There were some great ones, but hopefully frequency will pick up again over the summer.

I also tweaked the indexing method, so the content that was already in there should be more searchable than ever. The new method will be applied to the anime index next, and an update to that should be coming soon.

Pixiv and Twitter~

the pixiv index has been updated, and now includes upto ID 18530324, there were a few other updates earlier this week, but I never got around to posting about them...


In the future, the relatively minor and repetitive updates like these will probably only be posted on the SauceNAO twitter feed. Major news and important updates will still be discussed here.

Pixiv Update

Index now includes all IDs up to and including 17502758~

'Normal' Anime Index!

Finally releasing the first cut of the Anime index! It's nowhere near comprehensive at this point, I'm just releasing it as is because I really need to get a feel for how it performs in the real world. It'll undoubtedly have some issues in its first few months, just as the H-Anime index did, but with a bit of tweaking it should be a great addition to the overall mix.

The Anime index as it stands covers a pretty random assortment of around a thousand series. It's still very much a work in progress at this point, and will be rapidly expanded over the coming months. (Popular recent series are probably next) Hope you like it~