A shelf book can be requested as an ebook, an audiobook or both (one request per format), and each request is checked against its own library, source priority list and format guard. Ranking within a source prefers the most downloaded copy, then size, and one m4b is preferred to a set of chapter files unless it is much smaller than the other copies. Soulseek peers are ranked by free slot, queue length and speed.
Automatic downloads refuse multi-book packs, sequels and other works named in the title, study guides, abridged or dramatised versions, two-in-one titles, releases in a language the requester didn't ask for, and an archive for an audiobook request.
Matching folds accents on both sides, drops an alternate title for the search and the match, and reads small numbers the same in any form. AudiobookBay releases with no author in the listing title are judged on the authors credited on the detail page.
WordPress texturizes punctuation on output only, so a post stored as
"The
Stranger's Wife" renders as "The Stranger’s Wife". ABB's search matches
the
stored value and ANDs its terms, so one typographic character in the
query
empties the entire result set rather than merely ranking worse. Book
metadata
and mobile keyboards both hand us those characters.
Map curly quotes, dashes and ellipses to ASCII before a query goes out,
and on
both sides of the relevance comparison, since scraped titles carry the
rendered
forms. Release titles are still stored and displayed exactly as ABB
renders
them; only matching normalizes.
Also percent-encode the search query properly. The hand-rolled encoder
only
escaped double quotes and spaces, so a bare "&" started a new query
parameter
and silently truncated the search: "detective dan riley books 1 & 2
weatherley"
reached ABB as "detective dan riley books 1" and returned six
confident-looking
results without the requested book among them. "%" and "+" were mangled
too.
- Migrate download client handling from /prowlarr to /download. Moves
all torrent/usenet handling to app-level and gives ABB this
functionality.
- ABB Scraper now uses shared HTTP infrastructure instead of raw
requests, adding retry and proxy support
- Added author, age and bitrate info to ABB search results
- Added "best match" sorting option for releases
- Added size and bitrate sorting options for ABB
- Removed bundled default ABB hostname, must be configured by the user
- Added URL normalisation for ABB hostname
- Rearranged settings UI, moved download clients to its own section.
- More tests
## Summary
Adds AudiobookBay as a web-scraping release source for audiobook
torrents. Once enabled, a new tab shows up in the Find Releases modal.
## What's New
- **AudiobookBay source** – Search AudiobookBay for audiobook torrents
from the Shelfmark UI
- **Torrent downloads** – Extract magnet links from detail pages and add
them to the configured torrent client
- **Audiobook-only** – Source is limited to audiobooks
- **Download clients:** Currently uses the torrent client configured
under **Prowlarr > Download Clients**.
- Audiobook-specific categories (e.g. `QBITTORRENT_CATEGORY_AUDIOBOOK`)
are applied when set.
- **Settings → AudiobookBay**:
- Enable toggle
- Hostname
- Max pages to search (default 5)
- Rate limit delay in seconds (default 1)
## How It Works
1. User searches for an audiobook; AudiobookBay is queried if enabled.
2. Results show title, language, format, and size
3. User selects a release; the handler fetches the detail page and
extracts the magnet link.
4. Magnet link is sent to the configured torrent client.
## Testing
- Unit tests for source, handler, scraper, and utils
- Mocked HTTP requests and torrent client calls
- Coverage for search, relevance filtering, language mapping, size
parsing, and download flow
### Screenshots
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src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2e10a259-5c35-4065-980d-b59a1c961c9f"
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