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NG Mobile discontinued

Posted by NeWaGe - September 3rd, 2020


Kodi has given me a huge run around with updating the addon, this is why tons of addons stopped being updated. Their addon team has basically scared away all the devs. So no more Newgrounds Kodi plugin.


The iOS and Android app UI has been an on-going learning process for me, same with when I initially distributed the app and all the rules Apple and Google have for their app store. Specifically with NSFW items.


Today I'm going to be discontinuing the project for a few reasons:


1) The cached database has reached 1 million tables. Which is too much to handle for my server. I would have to go with a flat DB like MongoDB and maybe split it between portals (movie, art and audio).


2) Not allowed to monetize the app.


3) Can't do any fun stuff like allow uploading of new content, post on forums or login to an NG account. This is only because the NG staff don't want me making post requests to their website.


The web scraping software I developed is archived at https://github.com/erfg12/newgrounds-scraper


If you plan on using this software, I recommend also developing a cache system to pull data from as querying the NG website too many times will trigger their anti-spam system.


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Scared away the devs?

The addon devs for Kodi, yes.