GagBook

Submitted by Alex on Thu, 2019/05/30 - 15:16

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GagBook is an unofficial client for the 9GAG.com website that allows you to easily browse the content with a simple, smooth and native user interface.

GagBook brings the fun to your device. It is light, fast and easy to use. It is so easy to kill time by viewing funny memes and videos from 9GAG.com. Just try it and you will love it.

This GagBook fork uses the undisclosed official 9GAG.com API as data source. Finally you are able to spend your time browsing the content again after GagBook was not working due to a website change back in December 2017.

Features

Simple, smooth and native Sailfish Silica UI
View posts in different sections, e.g. Hot, Trending, Fresh
Account login (with email only) and voting support
View comments of each post
Save image and video files

Currently not working/implemented:

The user login is not fully implemented yet and will expire every 90 days without warning (Beware: Currently NSFW/NFK content is shown nevertheless)
Delete/Add sections is currently disabled/not implemented
Comments: Embedded GIFs are only played once, this will be fixed later
Sometimes the download-bar stalls and does not finish, a workaround is to disable and re-enable your data connection. Please let me know if you notice a pattern or find a way to reproduce this.

Development:

I will maintain GagBook by fixing bugs and implementing new features.

Plans for the next update(s):
- Finalise Comments implementation
- Implement proper account login with corresponding features
- Implement full Sections support
- Rewrite Gags implementation
- Localisation support
Bugs: Please report bugs, issues and your idea of improvement on GitHub or in the comments below.
Source Code: The source code is available on GitHub - https://github.com/Alex217/GagBook

Donations:

If you like my work and want to support it, you may want to buy me a beer or two. :)

PayPal link

Screenshots:

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Application versions:

Attachment	Size	Date
harbour-gagbook-1.4.2-2.armv7hl.rpm	113.25 KB	30/05/2019 - 15:16
harbour-gagbook-1.4.2-2.i486.rpm	127.69 KB	30/05/2019 - 15:16

Changelog:

1.4.2-1 • 22/5/2019

Fix the loading of posts (The 'Reached end of the list'-message won't be shown erroneously anymore. Furthermore there won't be recurring posts anymore.)

1.4.1-1 • 27/1/2019

Fix the voting

1.4.0-1 • 25/1/2019

Implement full comments support
Update the sections
Change the comments icon
Switch to an appropriate icon for the open-link-button
Switch to a native video play icon
Center the buttons in the toolbar beneath of each gag
Improve the banner of long images to match the native SFOS look and feel
Remove QtWebKitWidgets dependency and switch to a QGuiApplication instance
Drop the deprecated Qt-Json submodule
Drop Symbian and MeeGo support
Drop Qt 4 support
Refactoring

1.3.3-1 • 5/4/2018

Fix loading top three comments (loads mobile website)
Save downloaded files to '/home/nemo/Downloads/GagBook'
Save the mp4-video instead of the image on a manual download
Increase maximal image height for better image quality
Fix download icons resetting its state
Cache long images
Rename the cache folder
Improve the info banner readability
Show corresponding error message if there are no further posts available (e.g. in 'Fresh' section)

1.3.2-1 • 19/3/2018

Fix the access to the 9GAG sections

1.3.1-1 • 9/3/2018

Enable the access to all 42 9GAG sections
Fix crashing on a bad network connection, on network errors and on an expired session
Add an automatic re-login on an expired session before fetching further posts
Add an easily extendable data model for the 9GAG sections
Reset deprecated config files and add all 42 9GAG sections on first app session

1.3.0-1 • 25/2/2018

Implement a library to access the undisclosed official 9GAG API
Switch to the newly implemented data source
Speed up the app and reduce data and resource consumption due to the new API source
Reduce the amount of memory allocations by extending the object lifetime
Update the AboutPage

Comments

cvp

Thu, 2019/05/23 - 08:23

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Is it possible to add a Video bar to fast forward or backward ?

Alex

Tue, 2019/05/28 - 15:22

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@cvp Well it would be possible. Do you have a good idea how to show/hide such video controls?

direc85

Wed, 2019/04/03 - 22:26

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Yay! Thanks!

Just a small correction: login works with user name, too. Well, I only tried my username and it worked.

Kelmi

Mon, 2018/12/17 - 01:42

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I missed feature/option to capture also title of 9gag post. I mean when I want download and save some picture or video, it only saves the picture and video but not title..

So for now I need to take screenshot.. Would be nice to have feature to pick also title of post.

Alex

Thu, 2019/01/24 - 15:18

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Hey @Kelmi,

just an update: Unfortunately this feature won't be supported yet because of the following issues:

First I planned to implement this by writing the title into the file's metadata (EXIF data) but there is no uniform Qt API to do this for images and videos (it's just possible for images atm). Then I implemented this by writing the title into the filename but this caused issues on SFOS to the extent that files with a long name couldn't be opened.

Anyway you may want to use some workarounds: The current filename contains the id of the post so you are able to open the original post in a browser. Another way would be to login to your Account in GagBook and upvote the posts. This posts will be shown in your Account. Later I also plan to implement the feature to show this liked posts inside GagBook.

Alex

Mon, 2018/12/17 - 08:31

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Hey @Kelmi,
thanks for your suggestion.
I will look into this for the next update I am currently working on. :)

gaelic

Mon, 2018/03/19 - 18:31

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Since today the parse errors are.here again :(

Alex

Mon, 2018/03/19 - 22:04

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Thanks for letting me know.

This issue is fixed with v. 1.3.2 now. :)

TamarindoJuice

Mon, 2018/03/19 - 22:11

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What a lovely meegon avatar :)

lutinotmalin

Mon, 2018/02/26 - 17:41

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Very good 9gag client, smooth and clear, love it ! Any plans about translations ? Would be great if that app could be translated via Transifex or similar ;-) Cheers !