🧠 AutoSmug Album Scanner

https://www.smugmug.com/

Educational Tool for High-Scale No-API Album Scanning (IndexedDB Edition)

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📘 What is this?

This is a browser-based educational tool that demonstrates how to scan and index public albums on SmugMug without using the official API.

Unlike the original version, this version uses persistent IndexedDB storage to:

• Store all scanned user and album data
• Enable instant re-filtering without re-scanning
• Support long-running and resumable sessions

⚠️ For educational and research purposes only.

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⚙️ How to Run (Enable CORS-less Mode)

Because this tool fetches data directly from smugmug.com, you must disable CORS.

🕉 Chrome (recommended):

1. Close all Chrome windows.

2. Run this command:

   chrome.exe --disable-web-security --user-data-dir="C:/temp/chrome-smug"

   On macOS:

   open -na "Google Chrome" --args --disable-web-security --user-data-dir="/tmp/chrome-smug"

3. Open index.html via file:// or a local server (e.g. http-server)

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🚀 How to Use

Upper Section — Scanner Control:

• Start Scan: Begins scanning public users, generating queries (aaa, aab, ...).
• Scan Duration: Optional timer (in minutes) to auto-stop.
• Reset Scanned: Clears current memory (IndexedDB remains).
• Clear Everything: Resets all local state: DB, localStorage, and memory.
• Refresh Upload Dates: Updates only the latest upload date of existing users.
• Refresh All Data: Fully updates all albums and upload times of existing users.
• Real-time log output and session statistics displayed.

Lower Section — Album Filter View:

• Search input for filtering albums locally by keyword.
• Results are sorted by last upload date, newest first.
• Expand/Collapse all users.
• Live stats: users in DB, albums, and how many matched.

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🧠 How It Works

• Uses brute-force query generation (aaa, aab, …) to discover public users.
• Parses <pre>-encoded JSON blocks from HTML (SmugMug outputs structured data this way).
• Stores results in IndexedDB to avoid redundant queries.
• Albums and metadata (including DateTimeUploaded) are fetched per user.
• UI is split between background scanner and frontend explorer.

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📂 Persistence & Resume

• Scanned data persists in the browser via IndexedDB.
• You can stop, refresh, pause/resume, or restart at any time.
• Scanning resumes from the last query point automatically.
• Each "Refresh" operation can be paused/resumed mid-process.

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