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WebCache documentation

The WebCache service is responsible for caching metadata related to web resources such as remote HTML pages and images. The WebCache API is used by the Image and WebPage services to keep track of imported resources.

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Cache Metadata​

The caches managed by the service include the following metadata:

{
  "name": "caches/2063273174265991175",
  "scheme": "https",
  "uri": "www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=2767",
  "mimeType": "text/html",
  "statusCode": 200,
  "redirectUri": "",
  "resource": "//webpage.animeapis.com/sites/mangaupdates-com/pages/6955217954586836992",
  "revisionId": "aabe9ddd1f2eb50c",
  "revisionCreateTime": "2022-08-07T13:17:59.868241Z"
}

The caches are stored to check whether a page has already been indexed or an image has already been imported, this is useful to reduce the latency and the workload on the remote servers, as well as ensuring that a cached resource is stored in Animeshon and always available for consumption.

Revisions and History​

The revision of a page uniquely identifies a resource as a point-in-time snapshot. This means that a resource likely has multiple revisions stored at different times, multiple revisions of the same resource define its chronological history.

Example: the previous cache can be retrieved using the name caches/2063273174265991175@aabe9ddd1f2eb50c. Requesting only caches/2063273174265991175 without specifing the revision will always return the latest known revision. Listing caches filtered by uri will result in a list of all known revisions of the remote resource idenfitied by the specified URI.