# AsuraScans Monitoring – Overview

## 1. Order of events

1. **Fetch comic URL:** Use `requests.get(baseurl)` to retrieve the current comic page URL. The URL may change frequently, so avoid hardcoding the chapter page URL.
2. **Parse website:** Use `BeautifulSoup` to parse the HTML and extract the chapter information.
3. **Extract chapter data:** The chapter information is stored inside the HTML element's `props` attribute as JSON.

   ```python
   soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, "html.parser")

   element = soup.select_one("[props*='chapters']")
   props = json.loads(element.get("props"))
   ```

4. **Check for updates:** Compare the latest chapter against the last known chapter stored in the database.
5. **Create notification:** If a new chapter is found, extract its title, URL and timestamp.
6. **Send notification:** Convert the chapter information into the notification payload (`title`, `body`, `link`, `timestamp`) and send it to the `backend-api` using a POST request.
7. **Update database:** After successfully sending the notification, update the stored latest chapter information to prevent duplicate notifications.

## 2. Dependencies

- **requests:** Fetch the comic website and send HTTP POST requests to the `backend-api`.
- **beautifulsoup4:** Parse the website HTML and extract chapter information.
- **Database driver:** Connect to and query the database.
- **json:** Parse the chapter data stored in the HTML `props` attribute (included in Python's standard library).
- **datetime:** Convert chapter timestamps if necessary (included in Python's standard library).