No Windows console found. Are you running cmd.exe?

[swanknight]

I'm trying to create a GUI for lncrawl (using .NET 5) but I cam across an odd issue, when I try to run lncrawl from my UI I keep getting an error: "No Windows console found. Are you running cmd.exe?"

These are the parameters I used for my test:

lncrawl -s https://novelfull.com/i-alone-level-up.html -o "D:\" --all -f --format epub --single

[dipu-bd]

Try like this:

using System.Diagnostics;

Process process = new Process();
ProcessStartInfo startInfo = new ProcessStartInfo();
startInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
startInfo.FileName = "cmd.exe";
startInfo.Arguments = "/C lncrawl -s https://novelfull.com/i-alone-level-up.html -o "D:\" --all -f --format epub --single";
process.StartInfo = startInfo;
process.Start();

[swanknight]

Try like this:

using System.Diagnostics;

Process process = new Process();
ProcessStartInfo startInfo = new ProcessStartInfo();
startInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
startInfo.FileName = "cmd.exe";
startInfo.Arguments = "/C lncrawl -s https://novelfull.com/i-alone-level-up.html -o "D:\" --all -f --format epub --single";
process.StartInfo = startInfo;
process.Start();

It doesn't work. I need to redirect the output to my UI (RichTextox) and it doesn't work if I try to use "cmd".
I've made plenty of GUI applications before but I never needed to run "cmd", so something is odd with lncrawl.

[dipu-bd]

Add --suppress argument. it will stop prompting any command line inputs. e.g.: lncrawl -s https://novelfull.com/i-alone-level-up.html -o "D:\" --all -f --format epub --single --suppress

[swanknight]

--suppress

That did fix the error but for some reason, it's not creating the epub file. I can see that it created the json folder and downloaded the content but nothing happens in the end. This is the output I get in my "console":

================================================================================
                         [#] Lightnovel Crawler v2.28.11 
                  https://github.com/dipu-bd/lightnovel-crawler 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 ! Input is suppressed
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Namespace(add_source_url=False, all=True, bot=None, chapters=None, crawler=[], extra={}, filename=None, filename_only=False, first=None, force=True, ignore=False, last=None, list_sources=False, log=None, login=None, multi=False, novel_page='https://novelfull.com/i-alone-level-up.html', output_formats=['epub'], output_path='D:\\', page=None, query=None, range=None, shard_count=1, shard_id=0, single=True, suppress=True, volumes=None)

-> Press  Ctrl + C  to exit

Retrieving novel info...
https://novelfull.com/i-alone-level-up.html
NOVEL: I Alone Level-Up
3 volumes and 270 chapters found

[dipu-bd]

it is showing output_formats=['epub'] as argument. that means the problem is somewhere else. try running it again with -lll option. it will print more details log

[swanknight]

Adding -lll doesn't seem to display anything new, and it doesn't download anything after adding it.
Also, it's strange that even though that without -lll it does download the chapters and creates the json folder, I see no progress in the log.

================================================================================
                         [#] Lightnovel Crawler v2.28.11 
                  https://github.com/dipu-bd/lightnovel-crawler 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                          << LOG LEVEL: DEBUG
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 ! Input is suppressed
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Namespace(add_source_url=False, all=True, bot=None, chapters=None, crawler=[], extra={}, filename=None, filename_only=False, first=None, force=True, ignore=False, last=None, list_sources=False, log=3, login=None, multi=False, novel_page='https://novelfull.com/i-alone-level-up.html', output_formats=['epub'], output_path='D:\\', page=None, query=None, range=None, shard_count=1, shard_id=0, single=True, suppress=True, volumes=None)

-> Press  Ctrl + C  to exit

Retrieving novel info...
https://novelfull.com/i-alone-level-up.html
NOVEL: I Alone Level-Up
3 volumes and 270 chapters found

[dipu-bd]

Without any error log, I don't know how to solve the issue.

There was an old issue for command line encoding. #927 #882 #892

Check if this is the cause.

[swanknight]

Without any error log, I don't know how to solve the issue.

There was an old issue for command line encoding. #927 #882 #892

Check if this is the cause.

Unfortunately the -lll doesn't display anything and as I said, it even refuses to even download when used.
The strange thing is when I ran lncrawl separately through cmd using the exact same parameters it's working fine.

Update: funny thing, when I used i instead of f it worked...sometimes. Yep, using the exact same parameters it worked sometimes and failed sometimes. This is too bizzare.

[dipu-bd]

Any update on this? Can you check the latest version?