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finished myAnimeList support!
now, every episode you watch on ani-cli will be instantly synced to myAnimeList (or your anime list provider of choice after i add more!). this works for animes, but also movies (where since they are only 1 episode it will mark them as completed.). same goes for animes, if you watch the last episode of a season it will automatically tag it as “completed” on your profile.
the app also now checks on startup for the sync provider status, showing what account you are logged into on startup
and changed the login flow so now first time you open the app it will ask you which provider you want to use, it will set it up, and then you can forget about it, it’ll be set up for good, making it a one time set-up hassle free experience! you can also choose to use the app without a sync provider, where then the app won’t annoy you at all. and you can if you wish, always change that choice using the ‘–sync-setup’ boot argument!
i think thats about it for now but thats already pretty good for now

welcome! this project is my own idea and fork of the ani-cli software, but compatible with different anime syncing libraries such as myAnimeList and/or AniList (i’ll maybe add later but idk i only use myanimelist). for now, i’ve managed to create the app on the myAnimeList API, add a oauth login flow on ani-cli to login to mal, and a check sync status function that runs on each startup of ani-cli showing the current login status and refreshing the token. i’ve also added a feature that i thought should be cool on ani-cli despite not being linked to the project, you can now use the ‘replay’ startup argument to directly restart ani-cli with the next episode of the last played anime (essentially contuining where you left off..)!
i might add support later on for other libraries but mal and al were the biggest ones i thought of so i’ll focus on them for now!

final devlog!!
i’m probably gonna go ship! (and go to bed, as it is midnight here).
i’ve finished making the readme, and tailoring the last stuff i wanted to do! the readme puts a real emphasis on the project’s ideas and story, but also on the open source contribution part with a guidance on how to edit country information from the JSON side with a detail of what variable does what, and guidance on doing a pull request. i hope everyone who eventually uses this enjoys it and finds reliable data across the site! (and sorry in advance if it’s not!!!)
and i also credited all the due APIs and tools i used, such as lucide icons or even the exchangerate API.

ANOTHER ONE
this time i added the last feature i truely wanted to add which is breaking down the actual calculation, because the calculation isn’t that hard to explain in itself, so now if you click the estimate you can see a little breakdown of how the estimate has been calculated! you do have to keep in mind that the handling fees are not insanely precise but should give you a rough estimate tho.
and for this well this was pretty easy to make since in the JS we were already calculating both the vat, duty, and handling so i just converted these to the actual correct currency and displayed those with a click event listener!

WOOHOO THE BACKEND IS FINALLY ALIVE!!!!
i think i’ve done the hardest part of the project so far, actually finding out how to calculate the custom fees! (this include the handling fee from the courier, the possible duty rates if it exceeds the certain local thresholds, and the VAT of the country).
the way I’ve did this is thanks to the JSON list of countries I found earlier, i made another JSON list with every single country on my list (that has obtainable data), and in this list i compiled the VAT rate, the duty rates and thresholds, and the local handling fees. all of the information about the rates has been found thanks to Google Gemini, because finding exchange rates for like 194 countries wouldn’t have been coding and would have just been a waste of time. the data is quite pretty precise tho!
after that, the data is loaded into the browser and after all calculations, we come up to the conclusion of “total = VAT + duty fees (if applicable) + handling fees.”. this variable is then converted into the user’s country’s currency, and badaam done!

sorry for the long devlog, but a lot of stuff to say!
i also removed the origin country (which originally contained selectors for UK/US since stuff on flavortown can be shipped from UK), but turns out it does no difference, so I ended up removing it altogether.
and also did a couple of quick UI edits there and there, and yay!!!!

another devlog!
i just finished to do all the front end, which means all the actual interface the end user will see. the remaining stuff to do will be the backend, which will be all the math rules per country for calculation of the fees and duty. i’m pretty happy of how i got the country selector to work, i managed to do it thanks to a github gist, here the one by @keeguon made 14 years ago, with the list of countries in JSON. then, I put all this in a tag and made it cleaner using the ‘choices’ JS library, to have a search field, and i would say i’m pretty happy of the end result!
i hope making the actual backend won’t be too hard, and another devlog soon I hope!

first devlog!
i almost finished the main static interface of the tool, based on a very dark-ish color palette. The point will be to make a very sober and simple looking tool to calculate customs, something that’s in theory a bit more difficult to do. (so altogether: simple ui => to do hard stuff ig)
the project will eventually allow people to calculate their customs for any country, and for any package they are recieving via hackclub, so i hope this will turn out good!
(the app will be entirely revolving around HTML, CSS, and JS, no fancy frameworks or stuff like that)

FINALLY SHIPPING!!!

finished all the READMEs and frontends and website and stuff
and also made the global earth map, kinda like how it is on hackclub mail’s website it represents all the mail sent globally via hackclub worldwide! with status like mailed, recieved, etc… (https://mail.hackclub.com/map).
you can zoom with the ctrl + scroll wheel to get more readable screen real estate and see more information btw!! (and exit with escape, ctrl-c, q, whataver your liking is)

so yeah, now shippign thjis project! and if you have anything to report or suggestions pls either drop them on github or in the comments

first devlog!!! (sorry, i completely forgot to make devlogs and make the project on flavortown so thats why theres so little devlogs)

made all the main app excluding the global earth view. so this is like hack club mail app where you can list your incoming mail and packages and see their statuses, IDs, all that all the information but right from a terminal app. its also noticebly way faster than having to go thru it on the website.

it saves the API key locally and does requests via the hack club mail API! (you need to get a hack club mail api key from mail.hackclub.com’s website)
idk what else to say but yes 5h devlog
and also i started working on the HTML/README at that time for the static pages when i was writing this devlog so yeah but now they are fully done