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c8d66db22e feat(direct_download): add OceanofPDF as a standalone search and download provider (#1485)
Closes #1149

## What this adds

OceanofPDF as a second Direct Download provider, alongside Anna's
Archive. Unlike Z-Library, LibGen and Welib, which only download files
Anna's Archive found, OceanofPDF searches and downloads on its own. It
works with or without an AA mirror configured; with both, one search
queries both and the results are merged.

It plugs into the provider registry from #1337, so search, record
routing and the download handler need no changes.

**Search:** WordPress `/?s=` search, "title author" first, then the bare
title if that finds nothing. One release per advertised format (`[PDF]
[EPUB]`), with title, author and cover. Shelfmark's supported-format
filter applies as usual.

**Download** follows the site's three hops:

1. The book page has one POST form per format, targeting
`Fetching_Resource.php`.
2. That returns an interstitial whose `<meta http-equiv="refresh">`
points at a signed, expiring file URL.
3. The file URL serves the book.

Pages go through `html_get_page` and its Cloudflare bypass. The form
POST replays the clearance the bypasser stored, and re-solves once if
challenged. Bypassers only replay GETs, so it can't be handed over
directly.

**Settings:**
- `OCEANOFPDF_MIRROR_URLS` under Mirrors. Only the first URL is used.
- An OceanofPDF toggle under Download Sources → Slow downloads. It's
locked until a mirror is set and while the Cloudflare bypass is off. Its
position in the list doesn't matter, and its description says so.
- A saved list from before this change has no OceanofPDF entry. The
settings page shows a missing option as off, so the provider treats it
as off too, keeping the page and the behaviour in agreement. New
installs default to on.

## Fixes found along the way

- **`challenge_marker` rejected real pages behind Cloudflare** (separate
commit, `fix(bypass)`). Cloudflare's bot-detection script injects
`/cdn-cgi/challenge-platform/scripts/jsd/main.js` into every page it
serves, after load. Bypassers return the rendered page, so a successful
FlareSolverr solve of any page under 64 KB came back carrying
`/cdn-cgi/challenge-platform` and was rejected as unsolved. The detector
now ignores that one script path. Real challenge pages load from
`/cdn-cgi/challenge-platform/h/…` and keep their other markers, so they
are still caught. This also affects any other Cloudflare-fronted host,
not just OceanofPDF. Happy to split it into its own PR if you prefer.
- **Brotli on a plain `requests` call.** Copying `DOWNLOAD_HEADERS` into
the form POST offered `br`. Cloudflare then answered in Brotli, which
`requests` can't decode without the optional `brotli` package. The POST
now leaves `Accept-Encoding` to `requests`. If a response still has no
file link, its status, encoding, title and challenge marker are logged.

## Testing

- **New tests:** 41 in `tests/direct_download/test_oceanofpdf.py` and 4
in `tests/bypass/test_cloudflare_beacon.py`. They cover search parsing,
format and language filtering, form selection, the interstitial, the
download flow (including a challenged POST, an HTML stub served as the
file, and cancellation), the toggle, and registry wiring. Fixtures
mirror the live site's markup.
- **Existing tests:** `tests/direct_download`, `tests/bypass`,
`tests/config`, `tests/core` and `tests/download` show no new failures
against `main`. Some tests in those folders can't run on Windows; those
fail identically on both.
- **Lint:** `ruff check` and `ruff format --check` are clean on every
changed file.
- **Live:** verified end to end on a v1.4.0 Docker deployment behind
FlareSolverr (external bypasser), with only an OceanofPDF mirror
configured: search, then the book page, the form POST and the completed
download.

## Known limits

- OceanofPDF doesn't label languages, so its results always pass a
language filter.
- PDFs only appear when `pdf` is in the supported formats.
- Each query reads the first results page only (roughly 7–10 books).
- Downloaded files carry OceanofPDF's own tags/watermark, as noted in
#1149. They aren't stripped.

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Co-authored-by: Adam Stone <196691089+ast0ne1@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: CaliBrain <calibrain@l4n.xyz>
2026-10-20 02:07:23 -04:00
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