Software – AniFetch
Okay, after much delay, it’s here.
AniFetch is a free software which notifies you when someone releases something that you’re specifically interested in, on most anime torrent sites. But in fact, you can use the program for a much wider variety of websites.
AniFetch
Key Features :
- Fetches newest and specific releases from popular anime torrent sites
- Can also fetch news from many other types of websites (as long as it has an RSS page)
- Up to 80% Memory usage reduction with the “Optimize memory Usage” Option, sometimes even higher
- Load / Save templates for quickly adding/editing websites
- Program icon can be hidden from taskbar and work in the background
- History window keeps track of the latest 70 notifications
- Instant access to the file from the news (if any)
- Low CPU usage
Future updates :
- Nothing planned yet.
Current version : 1.3.0.0 (30/11/2011)
Download link : AniFetch v1.3.0.0
MD5 : cb9eca2f4bea10f73f40123e6329a049
SHA1 : f5c96f9ba11e300475ae32721fc5c6ee5c60306d
Video Tutorial : Here
Password : neregate
Note : Some Anti-Virus softwares may wrongly flag AniFetch as a Trojan/Virus. This is because AniFetch is coded using AutoIt (which is often used for bot programs on games). However, here this is a false positive.
I went through a lot of testing, but nothing’s ever perfect. If you have any problem/suggestion/critic, feel free to post them here. Thanks 
Changelog :
Thanks to Knoobie and rhizzu for their ideas regarding this version, and everyone else for their feedback/bug reporting.
[Released] Version 1.3.0.0.
[Fixed] Numerous code improvements and other minor bug fixes.
[Fixed] “Subscript used with non-array variable” errors when a wrong Start/End tag was specified.
[Fixed] “AniFetch.exe” not found after an update, on 64 bits versions of Windows.
[Fixed] When the notification window was visible, buttons would not trigger until the window had dissapeared.
[Fixed] The notification sound would incorrectly play in some cases.
[Updated] Additionnal code when clicking on the “Get Source :” button. It should work better now (or so I hope).
[Updated] “(” and “)” symbols are now correctly parsed (omission) when reading the RSS source code.
[Updated] Helpfile “Anifetch.chm”.
[Added] Smart error detection regarding Start/End tags for the Title and Torrent sections. The program will tell you when they are not filled correctly.
[Added] Option to start AniFetch on Windows startup.
[Added] Option to choose where the notification window should appear (it properly takes the taskbar position into account as well).
[Added] Button to “pin” the notification window.
[Added] Button to immediately close the notification window.
[Added] Basic “regex-like” operators for the keyword section (+ and -).
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Thanks to Anon and rhizzu for their ideas regarding this version.
[Released] Version 1.2.0.0
[Updated] Some extra code for URLs which could, sometimes, not be processed properly because of some special characters.
[Added] Helpfile “AniFetch.chm” to help users in using AniFetch.
[Added] New “warn” icon in the tray area. This icon will appear if there is a new notification (only if “Show Notification Window” is unchecked, or if it is checked with the “Only when not in fullscreen” option set.
[Added] Option to hide the notification window, or to only display it when not in full screen (main window).
[Added] Buttons “Fetch Now”, “Minimize to tray” and “Open help file” (main window).
[Added] Buttons “Clear selection” and “Clear all” to clear one or all entries from the history (history window).
[Added] Tag “[:NEW:]” will be added for each new “unread” entry in the history (history window). This will only happen if the option “Show Notification Window” is unchecked, or if it is checked with the “Only when not in fullscreen” option set.
[Removed] UPX compression for AniFetch.exe and Updater.exe, resulting in bigger files, but less false positive detections from anti-viruses softwares.
[Fixed] Typo “Optionnal”
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[Released] Version 1.1.0.1
[Fixed] Conflict where the program would overwrite the “last save path” when using the “Load template” button instead of using the “last load path”.
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[Released] Version 1.1.0.0
[Fixed] Added some string normalizations to prevent some rare errors when fetching data.
[Added] Template support. You can now load and save templates for both the “Add” and “Edit” websites windows. This will load/save all the input fields (8 of them) from/in a file (*.atpl). Program will remember the last directory you used to load or save the templates.
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[Released] Version 1.0.1.9
[Fixed] Added a variable verification which should prevent errors like “Subscript used with non-array variable” from appearing.
[Updated] Isolated the fetching function (inside the code) to allow better variable separation and initialization between each website.
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[Released] Version 1.0.1.7
[Added] Some extra variables re-initializations. It should (I hope) fix some rare errors when fetching websites.
[Updated] Program now connects to the new server for updates. It should be much more responsive and stable.
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[Released] Version 1.0.1.5
[Added] Warning messages if some of the required fields are left blank.
[Fixed] Program would not fetch a site correctly if the torrent tags fields were left blank (Thanks to Jumendez-sama for reporting this issue). Program will now behave correctly if you do not specify any torrent tags.
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[Released] Version 1.0.1.3
[Fixed] Fetch timer would incorrectly resume in a particular situation.
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[Released] Version 1.0.1.2
[Updated] Program’s encryption has been slightly changed. This should remove false positive detections from several anti-virus programs (please note that this does not change anything about the installer. It only applies to the program executables themselves).
[Added] “Edit” button to edit an existing website.
[Updated] The history list’s will now always show the latest fetched news on top of history, and the oldest ones at the bottom.
[Fixed] The history list’s vertical scrollbar will now properly show itself when reaching more than 10 websites in history.
[Fixed] Program would not fetch a website properly if Title or Torrent tags contained the ” symbol
[Fixed] Program would not get the right torrent link if it was located before the “Title tag” on a same line.
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[Released] Version 1.0.0.1
[Updated] History now saves up to 70 entries. This is to avoid overlapping, as the program reads through the history to avoid duplicate notifications about news you were already notified of.
[Fixed] The “Get Source :” button would not launch Wordpad properly if file path contained spaces
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[Released] Version 1.0.0.0
AniFetch v1.3.0.0
Warning :
This is a great idea. Definitely will give it a go once I get home and come back to provide my thoughts. Out of interest what license is this being released under?
It is my self-made license actually. Because I do not want people to redistribute it without my consent, the software does not fit in any of the common licenses people are aware of (GNU, CC, etc).
In any case, if people want to break the rules, they'll do it regardless of the type of license anyway. I'd have been much more thorough if it was for commercial use, but that's not the case here. It's just a small program I meant to share in a "friendly" way and not in a professional way.
Glad to see it's out; I'll see how well it works once something is released (unfortunately, finding the tags wasn't as easy as just finding "").
Also, what was that Touhou song that was playing near the end of the tutorial video? It sounded pretty good from what I could hear.
I may add auto-detection for the tags later, though it may be a bit complicated due to the wide variety of websites. If anyone needs advice on configuring AniFetch for a particular website, feel free to ask it here
I'll also add wildcards later, because right now, leaving the trigger field blank does not make the program trigger on every entry.
For the song, it's 緋色のクオリア from the QUALIA Album. It's a quite nice album actually.
thank
Getting a weird error here. Firstoff: it wasn't exactly working; I had set it to 30 min checks, but even an hour after an RSS feed updated, it didn't update. I thought that maybe by restarting the program, it would start working from then on, but when I tried to open it again, I kept getting this (even though I installed with the most current version):
http://i763.photobucket.com/albums/xx275/Jumpsuit…
I tried doing it when not seeding/converting, but it didn't get any different results. I don't know what's going on here.
Also, as a suggestion, maybe make an edit site button, so that if I had to change the tags a little, I wouldn't have to Remove the website and then Add it again to change some info.
If it doesn't fetch anything, there's a high chance that you made a mistake in the site configuration.
If I may ask, what was the site you were trying to fetch the news from? and what did you put in the website configuration fields? I did lots of testing but of course I have my habits too.
For the edit button, yes that's planned. May start working on it tomorrow.
As for the error, it's a timeout message because the program failed to connect to the update server. Unfortunately it comes from the webhost and I can't really help it. When it happens you can try again after a minute, it should work again. I'll try to see if I can lower the timeout delay though, because I think it's a bit high right now.
Right now there's a security that prevents the user from using the program if it could not check for updates. I may remove it in the next version, though I'm not sure right now.
Well, I tried fetching it from the RSS feeds for the blogs of each site (ie: http://mazuisubs.com/rss.xml) and used the "title" scripts (ie: "title"Ore no Imouto ga konna ni kawaii wake ga nai 02"/title")
Tried using it again, though, to see if I did indeed mess up, but again, it's not starting up, so I'm guessing I'm blocked for whatever reason.
Yea I've checked that one. They have a really messy source code for the RSS page.
I've tried a custom setting and it seems I'm not getting what I expected (may be some array problem).
I'll try to see if I can release a patch later today.
(This is Jumendez-sama, just made a Gravatar account for the lulz, but anyway…)
I tried starting the program again today, except instead of the other error popping up, McAfee kindly dropped the bomb on me, telling me that the program had a trojan in it.
I trust you enough that I know you didn't mean this to be malicious, but apparently McAfee doesn't. :
Partially my fault for coding it in a language that some anti-virus natively Hate, with a big H. Probably wouldn't have happened if I coded it with a standard language
If you still want to use it, try to add the exe to your anti-virus exception list (if it has one). Some don't have one, so i can't guarantee anything :s
On another note, I managed to pin down the problem you told me about. I think the problem was a misconfiguration on your end, but in any case it wouldn't have worked because I found another error (coming from me this time). It was in fact an "exception" in the Trigger part that I didn't take into consideration. I'm almost done coding a fix. I should be able to add that + the "edit" option for tomorrow.
Well, about that, while looking at my Anti-Virus to see if I could grant the program permission, I found out that the program only was granted Out-Bound Permission. Probably the reason why I never received anything…
If you want to know, it's flagging something called "Artemis" in the file (idk if that's the coding language you were talking about, but…); I'm only saying this because I'm hoping that this was something unimportant that can be taken out easily because it doesn't seem McAfee isn't that customizable.
I'll see if emailing them the program will get it passed so an exception to it can be made; because that's apparently the best I can do to get it working again.
For Artemis, I have no idea. May come from the installer software I used.
I coded the program using AutoIt (you can google it). Most anti-virus don't like AutoIt because it can execute macros on a computer.
VirusTotal report
Emailing them the program sounds like a good idea. I actually never tried to do this so I dunno how much time it will take them to take it into consideration.
If I get too many people telling me about false positives, I'll consider re-coding the entirety of the program in a more standard language (Java probably), I lack Java knowledge for some functions I coded on AutoIt, but on the long term it may prove more efficient.
Good news:
I installed the new version of AniFetch and McAfee hasn't done anything about it.
Bad news:
-Tried closing the program and then starting again to see if I got that same error again, and I did
-I couldn't send the last version to McAfee because all my email accounts don't like the idea of someone sending an .exe file as an attachment, even if it's in a zip file…
Good news in response to bad news:
-I set AniFetch to run in Compatibility Mode for Windows XP SP3 (just for the lulz), and it actually worked. I don't know why or if it's actually ever going to auto-update from now on, but the point is it works, right?
Now, I just have to wait for stuff to come out (tomorrow) to see if it works, but thanks for the update!
Kinda strange, since VirusTotal says McAfee shouldn't even flag it as positive. Guess I'll never understand how these programs work.
I'm surprised about the compatibility mode too, since it should be unrelated.. but if this works, why not :p
Installer and program give a potentially unwanted program warning from eset nod32. It's probably just its sensitive heuristics but that's something to consider. Looks nice, though.
Yea, doesn't surprise me that much. The exe does have some potential hidden windows and connects to a web server for the updates.
Not my style to put any nasty things inside a program, though I have no real way to show my good will
Interesting software you’ve made. Planning to give it a try. By the way, what was the program you used at the start of the video? The one you used when you were about to open anifetch, on the bottom left corner of the screen?
The Installer you mean? Bytessence InstallMaker. It's used to create "professionnal-like" installers. Complete, and absolutely free with no ads
Or if you're talking about the several icons that showed when I hover my mouse on the edge of the screen : Objectdock.
Thank you.
license agreement
(VII) You agree to do 200 push-ups using only one finger every morning at 3am, local time.
LOL.. really?
is can you change that to 10 push-ups?
hehehehehe.. nice..
thanks.
^_^
Luckily for you, I striked this one :p
Suggestion:
It would be nice to be able to 'mute' the program (so it doesn't show notices) so that you aren't bothered when doing something such as playing a VN or game. Some 3D games will spaz out if something tries to 'intrude' on it when it's running. And to make it so that you don't miss it, it would be good to change the icon to a different color when muted, and then change to another different color if anything comes up so when the user is done doing whatever, he/she knows something was missed (maybe mark the history entries as 'unread' somehow too?). Also, if you implement this, it would be nice if there was an option to either mute everything or mute just the notification but not the sound.
Keep up the great work!
That's a pretty nice idea. Didn't think of that !
I'll include those changes in the next version then (less than 2 weeks I hope). Thanks for your feedback
Thanks for the response!
I've also been wanting to ask for a while. In the tutorial video, what's the music that plays at 2:30 and 10:00? I know 10:00 is a touhou remix but I can't quite put my finger on it.
For the music at 10:00, look at the 4th comment (starting from top).
And for the 2:30 one, it's "Fate" sang by KOKIA (opening theme of "Break Blade" anime). Awesome song
i love that song too!! just started viewing this page a li'l bit ago, and already found some stuff i like on here. actually quite a bit of stuff i like ^_^; well i'm also gonna use AniFetch too, 'cuz it seems like it'll make my life a whole lot easier in regards to finding good anime to watch. hope you keep up the good work on this site o/
Thanks
Enjoy your stay on NG.
i have a suggestion.
how about to add a new button that can manually fetch.?
sometimes when i am going to test other sites to fetch data,
i have to wait 60sec.
thanks for the updates,
your anifetch is getting better and better on every updates.
keep up the good works.
Noted. Will be added as well.
Thanks !
Good morning.
First of all I would like to say that your site is great. Second when I tried to download the Anifetch the antivirus blocked it and said that an auto script had a worm inside it.
Thank you.
Yes, some anti-virus detect this as a false positive, because AutoIt (the language used to code the tool) uses the UPX compressor, ans some anti-virus never liked it.
AutoIt is (unfortunately) well known for its macro programs, used in MMORPGS and the like to auto-farm stuff, etc. So it's receiving quite a bad treatment from anti-virus companies :/
As far as AniFetch is concerned, the only thing worth knowing is that it will try to contact the server to check for updates at start. No information is collected whatsoever.
Well, you only have my word regarding this, so I'd understand if you're skeptical about installing it
Thank you very much for the quick response. Have a nice summer!
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AniFetch Setup [v1.1.0.1].exe – 应用程序错误
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"0x7c930a73" 指令引用的 "0x00d2995a" 内存。该内存不能为 "written"。
要终止程序，请单击“确定”。
要调试程序，请单击“取消”。
what's wrong? xp sp3…
Try to redownload the file, it may be corrupted. Also, make sure you have administrator rights when trying to install the program.
If these do not work, try to set the compatibility of the .exe to windows 2000 or windows XP service pack 2, and try again. make sure you try both of them !
It may be your Locale (Chinese) which interferes with the program, but I doubt it.
The SHA1 is correct(and I have downloaded it twice),but when I run the program,it shows me this. I used to run it by using win 2000, but when it start setup,another error occurred… And now I can't run the program even although by using win 2000.The difference among using win 2000,NT or XP is "XXXXXXX指令"is different.I have the admin rights,antivir is OK.I try it on another computer,still error,win2000 also didn't work.
Quite weird.. Normally it's native in windows, but make sure that your computer is able to Unzip files (7-zip, winrar, etc), because the installer is an executable archive, and it uses the ZIP compression.
If this still doesn't work, wait for the next version (I'll release it this weekend normally). I'll use a more recent version of the Installer, which may fix your problem.
Really thanks for answering this question.I envy you can compile the program you want.I also learn computer progaraming,and I can just make small win32 program by c# so far.. Maybe when I graduate from college ,I can compile small software I need. ：）
college doesn't rly help with programming (beside imposing stupid projects to write), you just have to sit, read and code to gain experience in what you want to do
I agree, but that's only true as far as college is concerned
When you continue your studies (still depends on the school), you have way more hours and consistent projects.
I remember doing a 7 weeks long project (5 days a week, all day) for my school some years ago. It's really nice to gain experience.
But true, nothing beats self practice.
I have the chance to make/do? project with teachers next term, but I worried that as a fresh man in coding,all that I can do is really limited, what can I do, there is no difference whether I join the project.Although the aim we join the project is to learn, I think it's not good to do nothing when others are …Maybe the best way for me to learn programing is internet.
Thank you.Tell the truth,I also want to sit down and learn something about computer program,but when I'm in front of the computer,I always spending time on other thing like:find pictures,download songs,OST,gg reader… The only thing I do about study is learn the basic Operation of emacs and gvim.（edit txt only by keyboard is difficult but also interesting） I really should spend less time on anime…
In my case, the only way to sit and read, or code some plugin is "You want to do something with this plugin, and its very neccesary". so i can spend all time on coding program/plugin if its a plugin i need indeed. Then, find your purpose.
I dont know anything about coding – but I ve got a motto for you.
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"Code or die."
Definitely a burner and you need to code
Kinda like my learningstyle – I always freaking wait to the last second and even later and start learning then – if I would stop, I would literally die from the exams.
This time was close though, I barely survived, lol.
I dont think so =]]. I just wanna told "cant do or learn something without purpose".
In fact, Many and many plugin you cant code, only have ideas, so you had to die many and many time =]]
And if i cant, i should buy it, or ask someone to code this, no need to die =]] It's very different from your study, no one can learn for you
It't difficult for me to compile a useful program.(the only one I have thought is text encryption)I agree that"cant do or learn something without purpose".In order to comply a software which can help me to batch download pictures，I will learn more;)
Pretty nice programm, thanks 4 your hard work.!
But is it possibly to add some regular expression in the trigger keyword list? It would be very nice and useful.
Yes, this should be possible
If you have a list of operators in mind, I'm all ears.
this implementation would be perfect. xD
Huhu, regex patterns >_< that would be overkill I think. What's more, many people do not know how to use regex. I'm aiming to make the program "user-friendly" so I'd probably stick with operators like +, - and the like, for inclusion, exclusion, etc
Yeah, unfortunately :/. Then I think something like the Google-search-engine? with "Text", +, – or so?
Yup, exactly
One Bug, or may be i did it wrong. After paste the url in the input field of Add new website screen, i recieve an alert "Wrong Output". Screenshot here http://i.imgur.com/Kb2lJ.png.
Next window is the source code file, which format .txt.
This happened when you clicked on the get source button, right?
Looks like the program failed to make a copy of Unicode.ini to out.txt :/
Do you have any writing restrictions for files in your computer?
Also, what Windows version do you use? And is it 32bits or 64bits?
Thanks
I use window XP pack 2, 32 bits and it doesnt have any restrictions. Hope you'll fix it soon.
Works fine for me, weird :/
I'll test the program on a virtual OS to match yours and I'll let you know of the results.
WOW..!
this is a BIG improvement..
thanks ZANA, you make us all proud of you..
another great awesome software update you have here.
anyway. i have another request..
hmmmm, its not all that big… but it is very useful to other..
can you add start anifetch on system start-up.?
start-up on system tray.
option that the user have a choice to lunch automatically in start-up..
and thanks for the credit…. i really appreciate all of your works..
another BIG THUMBS UP for zana..!
I suppose I can do that. In the meantime, you can do this to have the same effect.
I'm looking forward to it.
The new version is much better,although the setup is interrupt by an error,(the uninst files doesn't exist ),but finally I can run the program.I can add,edit rss.but when I try to fetch data.An error occurred .http://min.us/meFPwOA (run the program for several minutes and do nothing ,the error still occurred).Maybe that's only because my install installation was interrupt…It seems that we're using two different operating system ,at least the character spacing is different.
The encoding of data.log isn't suitable for Chinese and Japanese??
The help file is really helpful and good-looking.，filter rules are good.
I have experienced this software,really good software.
Can you recommend some torrent site except nyaa?
Jumendez-Sama had the same problem as you. I thought I fixed it, but it looks like it's still here.
This might be linked to local characters, although everything should be handled in UTF-8 :/
Would you mind saving the template of your website (the one which caused the crash) and send it to me? That'd help me.
(PS : soz for late reply, Akismet flagged your comment as spam. took me some time to notice it)
i hope zana won't mind
if you are looking for torrent site with it's own tracker for new anime there's nothing better then nyaa (or any real alternative)
if you are looking for sth older then bakabt.com (although you need to wait for a week after registration for full account activation)
but if you just want to look for sth then tokyotosho.info (it's a database with links to torrents from nyaa and other trackers – some groups host their torrents on their privite trackers instead of nyaa)
beside that i don't think there's anything worth looking for (maybe irc, but there's less and less bots nowadays and it's not so popular anymore)
IRC is more popular than you think
And XDCC is much faster than torrents (at least, if you're here when it is freshly released).
XDCC is more anonymous than torrents too, but that's another story.
(yay, my 666th comment !)
i'm not saying that it's not popular, but it's a fact that there's less ppl there now and not every group have their bots
as for transfer speed sure it's nice when you hit some bot with 1gb/s upload (not that i can use it with my 25mb/s ;d), and privacy is also great, but it's a fact that it became rly hard to find many anime on irc latly, when they are easy accesible on nyaa or baka
Groups do not need to have their bots hopefully. Some bots archive pretty much everything (even had my releases on xdcc bots for a while).
Also, it is true that IRC can't find you every series, but that's only because torrents are more popular (ask a group of people about torrents and xdcc, im sure70% of them won't know what xdcc is).
Although, with all our Internet privacy being removed little by little (and it's likely to worsen because of some ww @laws that are pending right now), xdcc could become the future of anime downloading in a few years
I get nothing from search engine about irc and xdcc XD..
25mb/s … Amazing, I only use 2m/s… Well, after all, foreign
Thanks alot for sending me your AniF folder. I got your problem.
In the "End Tag" field of the "Title Tag" area (in your website configuration), you forgot to add a / before "title". That's what caused the error. Just add a / and it'll work.
I'll try to think of something to prevent that kind of error in the future.
囧。。。My fault. .It can work now，thank you
Wow, your website is really incredible – I love your incredibly slick design! Major, major props to its creator.
Also, I’d like to thank you guys for all of your hard work (what with the anime charts, software releases, and more)… it looks like I’m gonna be hanging out around here quite a bit, now.
On a different, perhaps more relevant note, I’ve been having some trouble with this program, though – I seem to be getting some subscript array error (something around the lines of “Subscript used with non-array variable”). Furthermore, I would really appreciate the ability to select which corner the notification box appears in!
And while I’m at it, I can’t seem to be able to be able to drop any files on your other program, the NG Hash Calculator.
Finally, is there some way I may go about registering on this website, so that my settings are saved (i.e. remembering that ‘mature content’ is okay with me, and skipping that initial enter/exit splash page)?
Thanks for your time and consideration.
Hellow BackStab28.
Thanks for your kind words
The site is actually run by Uncle Zana (ie: me :p), your one-man army for anything from posts to design changes, although nothing extraordinary.
I’ve been aware of this subscript error, and I “finally” know where it comes from (I’ve been trying to figure it out for quite some time now). This’ll happen when the program cannot find the “closing tag” used for one of the fields you filled. Make sure you correctly fill both the starting and ending tags. If you have trouble configuring it, I’d gladly help you configure it for a website in particular, until I release a fix for this.
The notification box’s change of position is possible. I’ll add it to my TODO list for the next release. I forgot to take the taskbar position into account, so this’ll be like killing two birds with one stone.
For NG Hash Calculator, it uses Java, so make sure you have a recent version of Java installed on your computer. AniFetch uses AutoIt, which doesn’t require anything aside from a Windows OS.
As for your settings, there is no registration yet. I plan on coding a custom member area myself when I get the time (and the motivation
). Although no worries, your mature content settings as well as the initial splash are stored in cookies using some homemade JavaScript, so you won’t have to click again next time you visit (unless you disabled cookies).
Zana, thanks for the prompt and informative response!
Okay, I’ll go through my tags and ensure that there weren’t any errors. Curiously enough, AniFetch doesn’t have any problems with two of a given group’s releases (Commie Subs, to be specific), but cannot seem to correctly parse a third release (hence the subscript error). The ending tags are all the same: (without the extra spaces, which I had to get it to show up)
Ah, well. I’m sure I can fix this after more thoroughly looking into their RSS feed.
I forgot to mention another issue I’ve been having with AniFetch in my first post. Whenever I run AniFetch from the Start Menu (as configured by the installer), the updater launches first (and does its stuff), finds no updates, and – presumably – tries to launch AniFetch. However, it fails to do so and crashes with the following error:
Windows cannot find ‘AniFetch.exe’. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again.
If I try running AniFetch a second time from the very same Start Menu link, the updater does *not* run, and AniFetch launches successfully. Strange.
Finally, I do, indeed, have a recent version of Java (I have both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions installed, which may be causing some issues for the Hash Calculator – but the Java documentation claims that they should not interfere with one another whatsoever) – specifically, I use Version 6, Update 29, which seems to be the latest version.
Thank you for your time.
And while I hate to double post (I cannot seem to edit my previous post), I would like to note that I run into the splash page every time I visit the site (though the mature content settings seem to be sticking).
Comment editing is currently broken (I hope to repair it :/ ), so don’t mind it
You have welcome page located at “neregate.com” this one is always here for people who go specifically to this URL (ie “neregate.com”). I made it like that for people with slow connections in case they land on the site by error (the main blog page is quite heavy to load).
The URL “neregate.com/blog”, however, also shows a “mature content material” warning that you have to accept, but it should be only once, as it sets a cookie valid for several months.
Check that you do have a cookie for this domain named “wpmc_warning” set to 1.
If you were talking about the “neregate.com” splash, just always use the “neregate.com/blog” URL instead
Yes, it doesn’t launch a second time because a config value is changed to make the program run directly instead of the Updater (which has a separate exe).
May I ask you what is the full path of your AniFetch directory? I’m suspecting that the installation path may contain some characters AniFetch cannot read. That, or maybe your anti-virus is interfering with AniFetch (some of them do not Like programs created with AutoIt and wrongly flag them as positive).
Also, what is your operating system? And is it 32 or 64 bits? May have something to do with the 64 bits, although I need to confirm that (it’s been compiled for 32bits, but should work fine in a 64bits environment).
For Java, this is really strange. Works without problems on my machine with an old version of Windows installed. I’ll recreate the scenario once I get some info regarding your OS version (if you don’t mind
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Ah, I see – the /blog URL works just fine. Thanks for the tip.
I use Windows 7 Ultimate, 64-bit. Perhaps you forgot to account for the fact that 32-bit programs install at “C:\Program Files (x86)\” as opposed to simply “C:\Program Files\”?
The full path is as follows:
“C:\Program Files (x86)\AniFetch”
I can also guarantee that my antivirus is not interfering with AniFetch, given that I still get the error when it has been completely disabled.
Thanks for your continued support.
Nah, I use dynamic paths, so it should work regardless of the architecture.
Would you mind listing all the files that you have in your AniFetch directory? (and subfolders eventually). I think I may have an idea of the problem.
We seem to have hit the maximum number of embedded replies, so I’m responding to this one instead.
And sure thing! Here you go:
==== Start AniFetch Directory Listing ====
/AniFetch
—>AniFetch.chm
—>AniFetch.dll
—>AniFetch.exe
—>Config.ini
—>data.log
—>GetSource.bat
—>Unicode.ini
—>Uninst0.dat
—>Uninst0.exe
—>Updater.dll
—>Updater.exe
—>/Templates
——->Commie.atpl
——->Doki.atpl
——->GG.atpl
——->HorribleSubs.atpl
——->SGKK.atpl
——->Taka.atpl
——->UTW.atpl
==== End AniFetch Directory Listing ====
I think my comments are getting flagged as spam due to the way I tried to list the directory structure – I tried posting it twice, and it failed to show up twice.
I think they still exist, though, and just need to be approved by an admin, so I’ll wait a little bit before trying again.
And, of course, the moment I post this, my comment pops up. Hopefully the second one doesn’t, too, because that would just be embarrassing.
Akismet went berserk, sorry :p
Thanks for your time. Unlike what I thought, this is not a permission problem (permission to write new files into the directory, that is). Does look like an x64 problem, though I’ll have to look at it thoroughly.
Guess I’ll have to push an update soon, with other people’s suggestions and yours
Will see what I can do on a short term.
Great, thanks!
I’m looking forward to it.
Had a look at the problem, at it seems linked to a shell execution error at the end of my updater, caused by x64 operating systems only.
I’ll try a fix in the next release, first in x86 only. If the problem continues on x64 systems, I’ll make an x64 release as well.
Thanks for your patience
hi i have a little problem after the install wizard i highlight the option to run the program after the install wizard closes but nothing happens and i dont even have an icon to run the program can anyone help me please
Are you running on vista or seven? If so, you may need to run the installer as administrator.
Also, check that the program is in your program list : Start > All programs > AniFetch.
If it’s not here, try to look for it in your C:/Program Files/AniFetch folder (if it exists).
Every computer behaves differently, which is quite a headache
im running seven, i re-installed it running it as administrator and still doesnt create the anifetch.exe file, it does create the folder on C:/Program Files(x86) heres a screen shoot
http://oi44.tinypic.com/2h3s8wy.jpg
Ah, I see that both exe files are missing. Then it’s probably your anti-virus.
As I explained in red above, I coded the software using AutoIt, which has a bad reputation with some anti-virus companies because it’s been used to make bots and the like for games.
Here you may need to temporary turn off anti-virus during the install process, and add Anifetch.exe and Updater.exe to the exception list. Sorry for the trouble :/
dont worry im glad you didnt took long at all to reply ill see what i can do but if you have any tips on how to do that i would be really happy im not really smart when it comes to things like these
Your anti-virus should have an icon in your system tray (bottom right side of your screen).
Open the configuration panel of your anti-virus from here, and try to look for “scan exclusions” or something like that. It differs for each anti-virus, but it’s roughly the same method.
It does not work (((Do not understand the characters ((((
[한샛-Raws]
I reproduced the problem too. Seems that any Asian characters are not detected by the program, even though the source retrieving is handled properly. Strange, as it was working before :/
I have other fixes to do, so I’ll try to release a new version next week.
Thanks for letting me know
Very efficiently written information. It will be beneficial to everyone who usess it, including myself. Keep doing what you are doing looking forward to more posts.
I just download and installed the programm and it works fine, but today, when i started my machine (first time after installing) the autorun just started the “Updater.exe”, all the time, it just opend and closed it…
After I run the program as administrator it worked fine, someone knows that problem too?