Hydrus-friendly Image and DB export format

[DonaldTsang]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

Using Imgbrd-Grabber to download mainstream *boorus faster and Hydrus for niche websites, general image management and IPFS capabilities

Describe the solution you'd like

The creation of a new export file structure/format using Zip or others to package all images downloaded from Grabber along with the DB (which can be compressed into a smaller archive) and send it to Hydrus

Describe alternatives you've considered

Simple file path with formatted structure for image and DB location for easy drag-and-drop into Hydrus (that can be coordinated into a new feature in Hydrus for intermediate data transport)

Additional context

• Needs metadata information, including web link, image format, size, dimensions
• Needs to maintain all tags and meta-categories e.g. reference/copyright, artist, character

[Bionus]

AFAIK Hydrus supports the "text file beside the image" format, so you can just use an separate tag file, with a ".txt" suffix and contents set to something like (there's a bunch of issues describing it in more details, such as issue #1001 or #588):

rating:%rating%
%all:includenamespace,excludenamespace=general,unsafe,spaces,separator=\n%

Or do you really need the ZIP/DB part?

[DonaldTsang]

@Bionus which one has a better design pattern? Because I do have ideas on transportation formats for Hydrus desktop to communicate with other software or other Hydrus desktops.

Text file beside the image

Pro: less archaic, easier to manipulate and control without knowledge on SQL
Con: Tags are not packed together to reduce size when compressed
Con: There is no error correction to protect from file corruption or errors

Database/Folder format

Pro: Everything is in a Database so compression can save tag file size
Pro: Archive files could have error correction when transporting
Con: Compressing images may not save space at all (see CBZ or CB7)
Con: Requires prior knowledge to manipulate SQL, even for conversion
Con: It may or may not save time for transferring compressed image files

[DonaldTsang]

@Bionus right now I am a bit confused with the downloaded image files and I wondered where the tags have went.

[DonaldTsang]

@Bionus after testing around with Imgbrd-Grabber, I would like to say that it would be nice to have txt exports as out-of-the-box default.

rating:%rating%
%all:includenamespace,excludenamespace=general,unsafe,spaces,separator=\n%

Where does this script go in Imgbrd-Grabber?

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