Cardboard Box | Anime, Manga, Novels & AI

Live Site - If my server is running that is.

Features:

• Anime
  • Search for anime from: VRV, HIDIVE, Crunchyroll, and Funimation in one place
  • Sort all anime into lists
  • Share lists with friends or the public
  • Search for anime via the discord bot
• Manga
  • Read Manga from:
    • MangaDex.org
    • mangakakalot.tv
  • Keep track of your progress while reading
  • Customize the manga reading experience with different views and even a blue-light filter for late night binges
  • Read manga via the discord bot
• Light Novels
  • Read Light Novels from:
    • lightnovelpub.com
    • re-library.com
    • scribblehub.com
  • Generate ebooks (epubs) from any of the novels
• AI Image Generation
  • Text to image generation
  • Image to image generation
• Mobile App (PWA)
• Discord Bot
  • Everything uses slash commands!
  • Search for your favourite anime - /anime
  • Search and read your favourite manga - /manga
  • Generate images from a text prompt (AI txt2img) - /ai
  • Search for your favourite holy book! - /holybook
• Full Open Graph link preview support

Tech Stack

• Backend: asp.net core 6.0 (C#)
• Frontend: Angular 14.0 (TypeScript, SCSS, HTML)
• Database: postgres & mongodb
• Discord Bot: Discord.net & CardboardBox.Discord (C#)
• CI / CD: Github workflows, docker & nginx

Hosting your own instance

In order to host your own instance of cardboardbox-anime you will need to have docker installed. Then you can follow these instructions:

1. Download docker-compose.yml
2. Download deploy.sh
3. Create a .env file and fill out the following variables:
   • MONGO_CON_URL=mongodb://<user>:<password>@<host> - Your hosted instance of MongoDB (this is not in the docker compose)
   • POSTGRES_HOST=<database> - The database name you want to use for the postgres database
   • POSTGRES_USER=<username> - The username you want to use for the postgres database
   • POSTGRES_PASS=<password> - The password you want to use for the postgres database
   • OAUTH_APP_ID=<app-id> - You can get this by heading over to Cardboard OAuth, logging in and clicking Admin Panel
   • OAUTH_SECRET=<app-secret> - You'll get it with your APP-ID
   • OAUTH_KEY=<app-key> - You'll get it with your APP-ID
   • DISCORD_KEY=<discord-key> - You can get this from the Discord Developer Panel
   • DISCORD_APPID=<discord-app-id> - Not actually needed right now (but maybe later)
   • DISCORD_TOKEN=<discord-token> - You get it with your discord-key
   • DISCORD_AI_URL=<url> - URL to your instance of the stable-diffusion API
4. Run the ./deploy.sh script

Notes:

• You need the API and the databases in order to run the bot.
• You need to setup your own copy of the stable-diffusion API to get AI image generation to work.
  • I will not provide the necessary configuration, models, and embeddings for stable-diffusion. You can find them in the parent repo's documentation.

Contributing

Go ahead and submit a PR with anything you want added, I'll review when I get the notification. I tend to just commit directly to main myself as I'm the sole developer on this project at the moment.

Contact Me

You can reach me on discord Cardboard#0001 or you can join my server. My discord server is mostly my testing grounds for the bot and other things, so it's not really setup all that well.