GTK+3 Interface for myanimelist.net
myanimelist has an API available again, so I will be creating a new "mal-gtk." For now this is an inoperable work-in-progress. My current work is to make a simple CLI tool 'mal-cli' to query the API.
- C++20
- GTK4 interface
- Flatpak releases
- Local data store in sqlite
- Support user profiles (Switch between accounts, or different tabs for different accounts)
C++20 compiler, like gcc 10 or clang 10. gtkmm3 libsecret libxml2 libcurl meson ninja ...and a org.freedesktop.secrets provider such as gnome-keyring-daemon.
# mkdir build
# cd build
# meson ..
# ninja
# ./src/mal-gtk # run the program
# sudo ninja install # required.
'ninja install' is required due to needing to install and register the .desktop file. If you don't want to install to /usr/local (and thus require sudo) just use meson configure to set the appropriate prefix and the datadir to ~/.local/share
The desktop file defines the x-scheme-handler/net.talinet.malgtk, this is needed so when you authenticate to myanimelist.net in your browser, the browser can return the OAuth authentication code back to the app.
- Set a preferred name (Space Brothers instead of Uchuu Kyoudai)
- Add custom series that aren't in MAL (Akiba Ranger, Game of Thrones)
- User-guided conflict resolution when local cache is different than MAL
- Countdown to next airing
- A .desktop file and icon
- anidb.net backend (Longer term goal)
- Get a .rpm and .deb in Debian/Fedora
- Make builds available for Mac/Windows
- Updating episode count by monitoring your media player
- Torrent / Tracker integration (Use flexget)
- Twitter/Facebook/Twipo integration
- Interface for MAL.net forums/messages
- Realtime chat with people watching the same episode
- Sorting/Renaming files on your hard disk
These are the GUI MAL updaters I know about. There's a ton of CLI-only clients out there, but that's not the same thing.
- Taiga - Mac/Windows Only, but pretty cool. FOSS.
- Toshocat - Mac/Windows. FOSS.
- MALU - Windows only bloatware.
- Trackma - Python, Gtk2. It has a cool curses interface, and connects to more than just MAL. FOSS.
IRC --- I'm usually alone in #malgtk on Rizon. I may not respond immediately, but please feel free to leave a comment.