feat: server-side latest-chapter polling (#2)
Adds a background goroutine to the backend that re-checks each bookmarked series' newest published chapter on its own schedule, so `latest_chapter` stays fresh even when the manga sites are never opened in a browser.
This is a *second, parallel* signal, not a replacement: the userscript keeps its own `maybeCaptureLatestOnSeriesPage` / `backgroundRefreshLatest` logic, unchanged. `userscript/manga-bookmark.user.js` is byte-identical to `main`.
## How it works
One ticker goroutine in the same binary. Each wake it asks SQLite for bookmarks whose `latest_checked_at` has aged past a per-bookmark cooldown, fetches those series pages through a Chrome-fingerprinted HTTP client, extracts the max chapter number with a per-site regex, and writes it back through `Store.Get` + `Store.Upsert`. Every failure path logs and moves on.
Two independent clocks:
- **cooldown** — how long one bookmark rests between checks, enforced by the `WHERE` clause in `Store.DueForLatestCheck`, not by a timer.
- **interval** — how often the goroutine wakes and looks.
Shortening the interval therefore cannot shorten anyone's cooldown; it only makes the poller wake and find nothing due more often.
The row is stamped **before** the fetch, so an error, a timeout, or a shutdown mid-request still consumes the cooldown — a renamed or challenged series waits out a full cooldown instead of being retried every tick.
## Design decisions worth reviewing
**`latest_checked_at` is deliberately absent from the `Bookmark` struct and from `bookmarkColumns`.** `PUT /bookmarks/{key}` decodes a whole `Bookmark` and `Upsert` writes every column it knows about, so a userscript PUT — which has no idea this field exists — would write a zero and reset the cooldown, making the poller re-fetch that series on every tick for as long as the user kept reading it. Two tests guard this: `TestUpsertPreservesLatestCheckedAt` and `TestPutDoesNotClobberLatestCheckedAt`, the latter driving a real router PUT with a userscript-shaped body.
**`updated_at` never moves on a latest-chapter bump.** All chapter writes go through `Store.Get` + `Store.Upsert`, so the existing `CASE` keeps the stored timestamp when only `latest_chapter_num` changes and the bookmark list does not reorder. `TestRunOnceDoesNotReorderList` asserts both the timestamp and the `List()` head position.
**Fetches use `bogdanfinn/tls-client` with a Chrome profile.** Plain `net/http` was verified working against both sites on 2026-07-26, so this is not fixing an observed block — it is deliberate defence-in-depth against a future fingerprint-based one. The library is pure Go, so `CGO_ENABLED=0`, the static binary, and the distroless image are all unaffected. It does require the Go floor to move 1.23 → 1.24.
**`checkOne` validates before spending a request.** `series_url` is entirely client-supplied through `PUT /bookmarks/{key}`, so without a guard the poller would issue GETs from the server's own network position to any URL a token holder writes. The check requires a known site and an `https` URL with a non-empty host, and sits *after* the cooldown stamp so an unfetchable row is retried at cooldown pace rather than hot-looping.
## Config
Five new env vars, all with defaults sized for this deployment, all wired through `docker-compose.yml`:
| Variable | Default | Meaning |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `LATEST_CHAPTER_POLL_ENABLED` | `1` | Kill switch |
| `LATEST_CHAPTER_POLL_COOLDOWN` | `1h` | Per series, floored at `15m` |
| `LATEST_CHAPTER_POLL_INTERVAL` | `10m` | How often to wake |
| `LATEST_CHAPTER_POLL_BATCH` | `14` | Series per wake |
| `LATEST_CHAPTER_POLL_STAGGER` | `20s` | Delay between fetches in a batch |
`batch × (cooldown / interval)` = 84 series hold a true cooldown cadence at these defaults. Past that nothing breaks: the cadence stretches uniformly and the oldest-checked-first ordering keeps it fair. Bad values log and fall back rather than failing startup — the poller is an enhancement, and a typo in one of its knobs must not stop bookmark sync.
## Known limitation (accepted, documented)
The poller's `Store.Get` + `Store.Upsert` is not wrapped in a single transaction. If a userscript `PUT` commits in the sub-millisecond window between the two, the poller writes back its stale re-read — reverting that progress and, since the stored `last_chapter_num` now differs, tripping the `updated_at` `CASE` and reordering the list.
Accepted rather than fixed for a single-user deployment: the window is one SELECT wide, the poller only writes when a chapter number actually changed, and the next read self-heals it. The alternative — a transactional read-modify-write — means moving or duplicating the `updated_at` `CASE` that four tests and the whole list-ordering invariant depend on. Recorded in `CLAUDE.md` next to the poller's architecture bullet so it is not a silent trap.
## Testing
- Full suite green, including `-race`; `go vet` clean; `CGO_ENABLED=0` static build and `docker compose build` both pass on the bumped `golang:1.24-alpine`.
- No test touches the network: the `fetcher` interface exists so tests inject a fake, and no test imports `tls-client` or reaches either manga site.
- Extraction is fixture-driven against markup trimmed from real pages (2026-07-26), including a Cloudflare challenge page, cross-series chapter links, decimal chapters, and both raw `&` and `&` forms.
- Poller tests cover the no-reorder invariant, cooldown enforcement across passes, batch limiting, one bad series not stalling a batch, downward correction on a retracted chapter, cancelled contexts, and all four failure shapes still consuming the cooldown.
- Migration from a pre-column database has its own test — `newTestStore` takes the `CREATE TABLE` path, so the `ALTER TABLE` path would otherwise be untested.
- **Live smoke test:** real server, real fetch of asurascans.com. Log showed `latest is now Chapter 181` and `due=1 checked=1`; `GET /bookmarks` returned `latest_chapter_num: 181` with `updated_at` byte-identical to the PUT that created the row — the no-reorder invariant confirmed against a live site, not just a fake.
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Reviewed-on: #2
Co-authored-by: Sulthan Zaki <sultankiki05@gmail.com>
Co-committed-by: Sulthan Zaki <sultankiki05@gmail.com>
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@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS bookmarks (
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favorite INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
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latest_chapter TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
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latest_chapter_num REAL,
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latest_checked_at INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
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updated_at INTEGER NOT NULL
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);`
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@@ -68,6 +69,10 @@ var addedColumns = []struct{ name, ddl string }{
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{"favorite", `ALTER TABLE bookmarks ADD COLUMN favorite INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0`},
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{"latest_chapter", `ALTER TABLE bookmarks ADD COLUMN latest_chapter TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT ''`},
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{"latest_chapter_num", `ALTER TABLE bookmarks ADD COLUMN latest_chapter_num REAL`},
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// When the server last looked at this series, unix ms; 0 means never, and
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// sorts first so a new bookmark is picked up on the next tick with no
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// special case. Deliberately NOT in bookmarkColumns — see MarkLatestChecked.
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{"latest_checked_at", `ALTER TABLE bookmarks ADD COLUMN latest_checked_at INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0`},
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}
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const bookmarkColumns = `key, site, series_id, title, series_url, cover,
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@@ -277,3 +282,54 @@ func (s *Store) Delete(key string) error {
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}
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return nil
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}
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// DueForLatestCheck returns bookmarks whose server-side latest-chapter check has
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// aged past cutoffMs, least-recently-checked first, at most limit of them.
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//
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// Oldest-first is what keeps the poller fair when the backlog outgrows its
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// throughput: the most neglected series is always next, so a large collection
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// refreshes uniformly slower rather than leaving a tail that never refreshes at
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// all. The userscript sorts its own queue the same way (L453).
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//
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// Bookmarks with no series_url are skipped — there is nothing to fetch, which
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// is the same filter the userscript applies at L452.
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func (s *Store) DueForLatestCheck(cutoffMs int64, limit int) ([]Bookmark, error) {
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rows, err := s.db.Query(`SELECT `+bookmarkColumns+`
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FROM bookmarks
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WHERE series_url IS NOT NULL AND series_url <> ''
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AND latest_checked_at <= ?
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ORDER BY latest_checked_at ASC
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LIMIT ?`, cutoffMs, limit)
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if err != nil {
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return nil, fmt.Errorf("query due bookmarks: %w", err)
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}
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defer rows.Close()
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out := []Bookmark{}
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for rows.Next() {
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b, err := scanBookmark(rows.Scan)
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if err != nil {
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return nil, fmt.Errorf("scan due bookmark: %w", err)
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}
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out = append(out, b)
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}
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return out, rows.Err()
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}
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// MarkLatestChecked records that the server looked at key at ts, whatever the
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// look turned up. Marking a missing key is not an error: the row may have been
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// deleted while a fetch was in flight.
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//
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// This is the one write that does not go through Upsert, and the column is kept
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// out of bookmarkColumns on purpose. PUT /bookmarks/{key} decodes a whole
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// Bookmark from the client and Upsert writes every column it knows about, so a
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// userscript PUT — which has no idea this field exists — would write a zero and
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// reset the cooldown, making the poller re-fetch that series every tick for as
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// long as the user kept reading it.
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func (s *Store) MarkLatestChecked(key string, ts int64) error {
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if _, err := s.db.Exec(
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`UPDATE bookmarks SET latest_checked_at = ? WHERE key = ?`, ts, key); err != nil {
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return fmt.Errorf("mark checked %q: %w", key, err)
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}
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return nil
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}
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