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@@ -1,33 +1,34 @@ # myal - My Anime Library -My Anime Library is a cli-tool written in C to manage an anime watchlist. +My Anime Library is a cli-tool written in C to manage an anime and manga list. I used to track which anime I have watched and what episode I'm on by writing in a text file, which got annoying after a while. -This is why I created a simple program to quickly search and change a -csv file. +This is why I created this tool to keep anime and manga organized in a sqlite3 +database. Is it a complete overkill to write this in C? Yes -Could this have been a simple bash script? Definitely - But why not? I wanted some practice with C, so if you see any glaring errors or -unsafe code feel free to point it out and roast me. - -This cli-tool works with csv files in the format - -name,episode,status +unsafe code feel free to point it out and roast me. -For example: +You need a database with tables `anime` and `manga`. Attached in this repo +is a setup script for the database. Simply execute +``` +sqlite3 <db-setup.sql +``` -Samurai Champloo,14,watching -Bakemonogatari,0,done -Steins; Gate,1,watching +This will create the following tables: +anime(ID integer pk, NAME text, EPISODE text, STATUS text) +manga(ID integer pk, NAME text, CHAPTER text, STATUS text) -and so on. If I'm done watching a series, the episode is set to '0'. +Chapters and episodes are stored as text, because sometimes the chapter isn't +just a number but rather in the form "Volume 6 Chapter 4", shortened to "V6CH4". +When I'm done with an anime or manga, I set the episode or chapter to 0 and set +the status to "done". -You need to set the filepath to your csv in the main.c, but everything else +You need to set the filepath to your db-file in the main.c, but everything else should work out of the box. The Makefile uses clang, because that's what I prefer, but you can change it to gcc in the second line. Or you could simply do ``` -gcc -o myal main.c -```
\ No newline at end of file +gcc -o myal main.c -lsqlite3 +``` |