Manga Bookmark

Track manga read-progress on asurascans.com (a.k.a. asuracomic.net), demonicscans.org, comix.to, and kagane.to from a phone (Bromite / mobile Chromium), synced to a self-hosted Go backend so bookmarks unify across all four sites and all devices.

Two parts:

• backend/ — tiny Go (net/http + Postgres via pure-Go pgx) sync service. 4 routes, static binary, distroless container.
• userscript/manga-bookmark.user.js — single Bromite-compatible userscript (no GM_* APIs) that injects an on-page bookmark UI and syncs via fetch().

Bromite userscript (isolated world, Shadow DOM UI, localStorage cache)
    -- fetch() HTTPS -->  reverse proxy (TLS + CORS)  -->  Go net/http  -->  Postgres (volume)
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                                                              | CDP over the tailnet
                                                              v
                                                    headless Chrome, on-demand,
                                                    on a separate machine
                                                    (chrome/, ADR-0006)

Kagane and novelfull sit behind a Cloudflare JavaScript challenge no TLS fingerprint clears, so the poller reaches those two through a real Chrome over CDP. That browser is not part of the API stack: it is its own compose unit on a second machine, spawned on the first connection and reaped when idle. The API needs it only to discover new chapters and to fetch a kagane cover once — covers are stored, so the library renders in full with the browser switched off.

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1. Backend

Config (env)

Var	Default	Notes
TOKEN_KEY	(required)	Secret every Reader's userscript credential is derived from (issue #24); only SHA-256 hashes of credentials are stored.
OWNER_DISCORD_ID	(required)	Discord user ID of the owner: seeded as the first Reader, owns every pre-registration bookmark, and is the only Reader who can revoke another's sessions.
ALLOWED_ORIGINS	Asura + Demonic + Comix + Kagane origins	Comma-separated CORS allowlist.
DATABASE_URL	(required)	Postgres connection URL, e.g. postgres://bookmarks:…@postgres:5432/bookmarks?sslmode=disable. Compose builds it from POSTGRES_PASSWORD.
COVER_DIR	(required)	Filesystem volume for immutable, content-addressed Cover bytes. Compose builds the image and mounts cover-data at this path; standalone runs may choose another writable durable path.
PORT	8080	Plain HTTP; TLS terminated by the proxy.
BROWSER_WS_URL	empty	CDP endpoint of the remote browser (ws://<tailnet IP>:9222), used to poll Kagane/Novelfull past their JS challenge and to fetch uncached Kagane covers. Must be an IP or localhost — Chrome's DevTools handler 500s any other Host header, MagicDNS names included. Unset disables both; stored covers still serve.
DISCORD_CLIENT_ID	(required)	Discord application credentials for the browser sign-in (ADR-0002).
DISCORD_CLIENT_SECRET	(required)	As above. Never logged, never echoed in an error.
DISCORD_GUILD_ID	(required)	The one guild whose membership gates sign-in, checked at login only. Membership is registration: any member becomes a Reader on first login.
DISCORD_REDIRECT_URI	(required)	Exact callback URL; Discord matches it verbatim against the registered redirect.
DISCORD_REQUIRED_ROLE	empty	Role snowflake a member must additionally hold. Empty means guild membership alone suffices.
DISCORD_API_BASE	https://discord.com/api/v10	Test seam — tests point it at a local stub so the real token exchange runs.
USERSCRIPT_PATH	/userscript/manga-bookmark.user.js	Bindmounted file served at /u/{token}/manga-bookmark.user.js.
NOVEL_USERSCRIPT_PATH	/userscript/novel-bookmark.user.js	Same, for the novel library.
LATEST_CHAPTER_POLL_ENABLED	1	0 turns the poller off entirely.
LATEST_CHAPTER_POLL_COOLDOWN	1h	Rest between checks of one plain-TLS series; floor 15m.
LATEST_CHAPTER_POLL_BROWSER_COOLDOWN	6h	Rest between checks of one browser-backed series; floor 15m.
LATEST_CHAPTER_POLL_INTERVAL	10m	How often the poller wakes. Cannot shorten either cooldown.
LATEST_CHAPTER_POLL_BATCH	14	Series per wake. Keep BATCH × STAGGER under INTERVAL.
LATEST_CHAPTER_POLL_STAGGER	20s	Delay between fetches in a batch — this is the outbound request rate.

Compose reads a few more from the same .env that the backend never sees: POSTGRES_PASSWORD (required — DATABASE_URL is built from it, and Postgres only applies it while postgres-data is empty), BOOKMARK_API_HOST and BOOKMARK_WEB_HOST (required by the prod override), and the optional PROXY_NETWORK / TRAEFIK_ENTRYPOINT / TRAEFIK_CERTRESOLVER. The browser unit has its own chrome/.env on its own machine — BROWSER_BIND_ADDR (required, the tailnet IP the CDP port is published on) and the optional BROWSER_TZ. Full commentary is in .env.example and chrome/.env.example; deployment order is DEPLOY.md.

Endpoints

Method	Path	Auth	Description
GET	/bookmarks	Bearer	All bookmarks of the acting Reader.
PUT	/bookmarks/{key}	Bearer	Upsert one series; returns the row as stored.
DELETE	/bookmarks/{key}	Bearer	Remove one.
GET	/healthz	none	200 ok.
GET	/u/{token}/manga-bookmark.user.js	credential in path	Serves the userscript with the requesting Reader's credential substituted in and an mtime-derived @version.

key is <site>:<series_id> — e.g. asura:trash-of-the-counts-family-f886a8af, demonic:Infinite-Level-Up-in-Murim, comix:12345, or kagane:3fa85f64-5717-4562-b3fc-2c963f66afa6. Sync is last-write-wins.

updated_at orders the bookmark list, so it moves only on real reading progress: the server applies its timestamp when the row is new or last_chapter_num changes, and otherwise keeps the stored one. Favouriting a series or recording a newly published chapter therefore leaves the order alone. Because the timestamp a client sends is only a candidate, PUT echoes the row as stored and clients adopt that rather than their own payload.

Develop / test

cd backend
go test ./...                          # unit + handler tests
CGO_ENABLED=0 go build                 # static binary

go test ./... requires Docker. The store talks to a real Postgres, so each test package starts a throwaway postgres:17-alpine container and gives every test its own database inside it (internal/pgtest). Nothing is stubbed and nothing reaches the network beyond the local Docker daemon.

Run the stack

cp .env.example .env
# edit .env: set TOKEN_KEY (openssl rand -hex 32) and
#            POSTGRES_PASSWORD (openssl rand -hex 24)

docker compose up -d --build           # binds 127.0.0.1:8080

That brings up two services — the API and Postgres. The browser is deliberately not one of them; without BROWSER_WS_URL the poller logs and skips kagane and novelfull, and everything else works. To run one locally, publish it on the Docker bridge gateway so the API container can name it by IP:

cd chrome
echo 'BROWSER_BIND_ADDR=172.17.0.1' > .env
docker compose up -d --build
# then in the repo's own .env:  BROWSER_WS_URL=ws://172.17.0.1:9222

Bind it to 127.0.0.1 instead if you only want to drive it from the host, e.g. SMOKE_BROWSER_WS_URL=ws://127.0.0.1:9222 go test -run TestSmokeKagane ./internal/latest. In production that address is the home machine's tailnet IP and nothing else — see DEPLOY.md §7 and ADR-0006.

Smoke test:

# The credential is per Reader and derived, so there is no token in .env to
# grep. Take yours from the Userscripts panel's install link after signing in,
# or read it out of an installed script's API_TOKEN constant.
TOKEN=<your Reader credential>
curl -s localhost:8080/healthz                                    # ok
curl -s localhost:8080/bookmarks                                  # 401
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" localhost:8080/bookmarks # []
curl -s -X PUT -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"title":"Test","last_chapter":"Chapter 1","last_chapter_num":1}' \
  localhost:8080/bookmarks/asura:test-1
curl -s -i -X OPTIONS -H 'Origin: https://asurascans.com' \
  -H 'Access-Control-Request-Method: PUT' \
  localhost:8080/bookmarks/asura:test-1 | grep -i access-control   # 204 + CORS headers

Deploy behind your reverse proxy

Route https://bookmark-api.<domain> → the service on :8080 (TLS at the proxy).

• Host proxy (nginx/Caddy on the host): the base compose already binds 127.0.0.1:8080; point the proxy proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;.

• Docker proxy (Traefik/nginx in a container on its own network): use the override, which drops the published port and joins the shared network:

  docker network create proxy            # once, if it doesn't exist
  docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.prod.yml up -d --build
  

  Set PROXY_NETWORK in .env if your network isn't named proxy.

Verify: https://bookmark-api.<domain>/healthz returns ok over valid TLS (no mixed-content), and an OPTIONS preflight from a real site origin returns the CORS headers.

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2. Userscript

Install

Sign in to the web UI and open the Userscripts panel: it offers one install link per library. Each link serves a script rendered with your own credential already inside it — you never see, type or copy a credential. The served script carries @downloadURL/@updateURL pointing at its credential-bearing path, so Violentmonkey keeps auto-updating it.

The bindmounted files carry __API_TOKEN__ placeholders; the backend substitutes the requesting Reader's credential at serve time, so no real credential is ever committed. Rotating the credential (same panel) invalidates every installed copy immediately — reinstall on all devices.

Install on Bromite (mobile)

Bromite runs Chromium's native userscript engine (no Tampermonkey needed):

1. Bromite → Settings → User scripts → enable user scripts (allow the permission prompt).
2. Open the install link from the web UI — Bromite detects the .user.js and offers to install it.
3. Confirm the install; the @match list covers both sites.
4. Open a series on either site — a 📑 button appears bottom-right.

Exact menu wording varies by Bromite build; if "User scripts" is absent, update Bromite or use a build with userscript support.

Desktop iteration (optional)

The script is GM_*-free, so it also runs in Tampermonkey/Violentmonkey on desktop for faster testing — install the same file unchanged.

Use

• Bookmark: on a series or chapter page, open the panel → + Bookmark this.
• Auto-progress: opening a chapter of a bookmarked series records it when the chapter number ≥ the stored one (re-reading older chapters never regresses progress; unparseable numbers set the current chapter).
• Manual override: panel → Edit on any row forces a specific chapter.
• Continue: jumps to the last-read chapter (or the series page).
• Latest chapter: rows read Read: … · Latest: … once the newest published chapter is known and it is ahead of your progress. See below for how that is found.
• Favourites: the ☆ on any row toggles it; the ★ Favourites tab narrows the list. Favourited series still appear under All. The flag syncs, so it follows you across devices; the chosen tab does not persist.
• Archive: the Archive button on any row parks a series — it drops out of All and ★ Favourites and moves to the Archived tab. The server keeps checking it for new chapters, so it is worth coming back to. Archiving does not touch read progress, and reading an archived series leaves it archived.
• Finished: series you have completed live in a Finished tab in the web UI only. It is set there and nowhere else — the API rejects the value — and finished series are hidden from every userscript tab and are no longer polled for new chapters.
• Bookmarks made on Asura appear when the panel is opened on Demonic, and vice versa — the backend is the shared store.

Neither favouriting nor learning a new chapter reorders the list — only reading progress does.

Offline / backend down: changes are cached in localStorage and retried on the next successful load (last-write-wins).

How "latest chapter" is found

Only a series page lists every chapter (a reader page links just its neighbours), and the backend cannot fetch either site — Cloudflare blocks server-side requests, and neither site offers an API or feed to poll. So the userscript does the looking, from your own browser session:

• Opening a bookmarked series page records its newest chapter directly.
• Otherwise it fetches series pages in the background — same-origin only, so browsing Asura refreshes Asura bookmarks and Demonic refreshes Demonic. One series per navigation, and at most one check per series every 4 hours (LATEST_CHECK_BATCH / LATEST_CHECK_THROTTLE_MS). Failures are silent and simply retried after the window.

Freshness is tracked per device in localStorage under bmgr:manga:lastchecked and is deliberately not synced, since each device checks on its own.

This means a bookmark is as current as its last check — not the moment a chapter drops. Nothing can be instant here: neither site offers push, feeds, or an API.

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Adapter reference (verified live 2026-07-24)

The site adapters key everything off URL regex, with title from og:title (or the page's own heading where a site ships none). No adapter reads a cover: the backend acquires, stores and serves every Cover from its own origin (ADR-0007). Confirmed against live pages via Playwright:

Site	Series URL	Chapter URL	series_id
Asura (asurascans.com)	/comics/<slug-hash>	/comics/<slug-hash>/chapter/<n>	<slug-hash>
Demonic (demonicscans.org)	/manga/<slug>	/title/<slug>/chapter/<n>/<page> (chaptered.php?manga=<id>&chapter=<n> 301s here)	<slug>
Comix (comix.to)	/title/<id>-<slug>	/title/<id>-<slug>/<uploadId>-chapter-<n>	<id>
Kagane (kagane.to)	/series/<uuid>	/series/<uuid>/reader/<bookUuid>	<uuid>

Notes:

• asuracomic.net deep links are dead (re-checked 2026-07-25). They 301 to the asurascans.com root, discarding the path, at the edge — before the userscript gets a document — so nothing client-side can rescue them. Reach series through asurascans.com. The host stays matched in case the redirect starts preserving paths again.
• Asura og:title carries a Chapter N - Read Online \| Asura Scans suffix that the adapter strips; Demonic chapter og:title is <Title> Chapter N.
• Demonic's <slug> is identical on /manga/… and the canonical /title/… reader, so a bookmark set from the series page and the auto-update from the reader resolve to the same key.
• Asura showed no Next.js markers on the live site, so navigation uses a framework-agnostic watcher (history patch + polling) rather than a Next-only hook — works for client-routed and full-reload sites alike.

If either site changes its URL shape, update the regex in the matching adapter in userscript/manga-bookmark.user.js and re-verify.