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Giffer

Giffer is an automatic gif download bot and is highly customizable. It's core functionality only consists of being able to start different adapters and downloading gifs that were found by these adapters. It also saves some meta information and makes sure that the same gifs are not downloaded multiple times.

API

start()

Start up the whole engine!

stop()

Shut down the whole engine.

Events

Giffer emits only one event:

gif

When a gif was downloaded. As a parameter you get the filename.

Writing plugins

Writing plugins is pretty straight forward. It offers hooks on some methods and your plugin can register on either pre or post events on these methods.

These are methods that can be hooked into:

handleGif

This is the first method that is being called when an adapter emits a new gif event. Checks if the gif was already downloaded and - if not - saves the data into the database.

download

Does what it says. Actually downloads the gif into the predefined folder.

emitGif

This is the method that emits the gif event after everything has been done properly.