Manga Reverse Image Lookup Service

[Atifus]

Website down or did you shift it again? (Has been down for a while for me)

 

[cardboard_mf]

Yeah, it's been down for a while because I got a DMCA notification and my ISP just straight killed internet because apparently I'm not allowed to host anything on my network and it's the only ISP in the area.
I'm working on migrating to a cloud platform but it ain't cheap. I might built a stand alone site for reverse image search to avoid getting DMCA'd again.
In the mean time, there is a discord bot that has access to it (I think it's in the original post) so that still works.

 

[cardboard_mf]

Website down or did you shift it again? (Has been down for a while for me)

I got a stripped down version of the reverse image search working: https://mangabox.app
That should avoid me getting any more DMCAs

 

[Atifus]

I see
Thank you for hosting it again 🙏

 

[cardboard_mf]

So I looked into adding the yandex image search API but the pricing seems a bit ridiculous: https://yandex.cloud/en/docs/search-api/pricing
I also cannot find the "non Russia" pricing for the API but that might just be my lack of sleep talking, but $2 per 1,000 requests is a bit much when Google's is a couple of cents per 5,000 requests. So I won't be adding Yandex for right now.
If there are any other sources I should add, feel free to let me know.

 

[cardboard_mf]

Ok, There is now a new stand-alone discord bot that just handles reverse image searching.
GitHub: Here
Discord Invite Link: Here
There are various ways to interact with the bot and get that sweet sweet sauce:

• React to a message with some predefined emojis (default: 🍝, 🔍, and 🔎)
• Mention the bot while providing the image or image link
• Mention the bot while replying to a message with an image or image link
• Use the /manga-search command with the image link
• Use the /manga-search-private command with the image link (this will only send the result to you)

There is also a command you can use to find information about the bot: /about
Thoughts on adding this to the MangaDex discord server?

 

[brian6932]

I got a stripped down version of the reverse image search working: https://mangabox.app
That should avoid me getting any more DMCAs

I wasn't able to get any results in the response for the page using this site, might be due to a fallback to saucenao, but even then, saucenao's official page listed the chapter, but mangabox didn't.

 

[cardboard_mf]

I wasn't able to get any results in the response for the page using this site, might be due to a fallback to saucenao, but even then, saucenao's official page listed the chapter, but mangabox didn't.

Could you send a link to the page you looked up that exists on saucenao but not MB, please? I'll do some debugging and see what's causing it to not show up (as far as I can see from the logs, the SN fallback is still working).

 

[cardboard_mf]

Website and bot are down, I’m in the middle of moving and American Telecommunication services are the bane of my existence. I should be able to get it all setup within the next few days. Apologies for the inconvenience.

 

[cardboard_mf]

Bot is back online. The website will take a few more days; still need to finish setting up the office and the other servers and all that jazz. Will post again when that is done.

 

[cardboard_mf]

Website is now back online! https://mangabox.app