Addons

monbooru is the main application: it owns your images and their tags, on your disk, in one SQLite file per gallery. By design it makes no network requests of its own, so your collection and your browsing stay entirely local. You can run it alone forever: nothing in monbooru depends on the other apps being present.

The addons exist so monbooru can stay offline while you still get online features. You add them when you want them:

monloader connects to the internet on monbooru’s behalf. When you want something from the web - download a post from a booru site, look up where an image came from, pull tags for a file you already have - monbooru asks monloader, and monloader does the online part. It downloads with gallery-dl, translates each site’s metadata into monbooru’s tags and ratings, and pushes the result into a gallery. Features in monbooru that need it (lookups, refreshing sources) stay hidden until a monloader is connected.

monsender adds a send button to your browser, once monloader is in place. You are looking at a page; you press the toolbar button; the page lands in monloader’s queue and, once downloaded and mapped, appears in monbooru with its tags.

In one line: monbooru holds, monloader loads, monsender sends.

The apps connect by pairing: each link is approved once in the receiving app’s settings, and the apps exchange scoped API tokens on their own. The quick start walks through adding both addons to a running monbooru.