Devlog: Feb 20, 2025

Feb 20 2025

AnimeTracker

• I will try to fix the batch-write issue today (for epsiodes)
• I’m also noticing another issue, some shows will not get their broadcast dates written
  • This could be because some shows don’t start at ep 1, they start at episode 10 for example
  • Huh, this is NOT the issue as TVDB takes care of this. If I manually run the function to grab season episodes, everything works as expected…
  • I see the problem. If I give it the middle air date, then it returns nothing. If I give it the initial air date, then it returns something.
  • I think I will just have to implement a function where we go through all air dates until we retrieve something back
    • Doing this fixed the issue!
• Anime that were not being scrapped properly:
  • 163134 (ReZero S3)
  • 171038 (Nina the Starry Bride)
  • Now, these are being properly scrapped!
• To optimize the episode scraping, I will allow it to take in a content array (similar to batch-adding shows)
• I made the method to do this, so it should be furthur optimized (still haven’t tested this)
• I completely revamped getSeasonEpisodes method
• I’m noticing even if I don’t read/write to Firebase, it is still pretty slow
  • I know fetching the anime data is really fast
  • The read/writes to FB aren’t doing anything right now
  • It must be the TVDB script
  • In the TVDB script, I actually also call another method. This is also slowing everything down
• Plan to optimize TVDB script:
  • Don’t call other methods
  • Async calls
  • I also need to completely revamp getSeasons (again) to accommodate for this
    • In getSeasons, we simply pass in the whole episodesData array will all of our episode data
• TVDB script optimized! getNewlyAdded has been optimized! We went from 60s to roughly 4s! 15x improvement
  • We also just fixed the issue where animes were not scrapped properly again, resulting in a run time of 6s
  • 10x improvement from original!
• I now need to improve the getAiringSchedule method (compeltely re-do it) (it is also not working properly right now for some reason…)
• (Will do later)
• Worked on the Swift client, starting to make the new database class and made a tester for it too
  • It is working, but takes a while to load in everything, which is annoying (need to fix)