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?