Pairing

The apps talk to each other through their APIs, and each needs a key to get in. Pairing sets those keys up for you, so you never copy one between settings pages: one app asks, you approve in the other, and they exchange keys that allow only what each needs.

There are two links:

• monloader and monbooru. In monloader, Settings -> pairing -> connect to monbooru sends the request, and you approve it in monbooru under Settings -> Plugins. monloader can then add images and tags to monbooru and update them (it can’t delete any), and monbooru can ask monloader for lookups.
• monsender and monloader. In the extension’s options, connect to monloader sends the request, and you approve it in monloader under Settings -> pairing. The extension can then add URLs to monloader’s queue.

Plugins pair with monbooru the same way and show up in the same list.

Good to know#

• You approve a pairing once and it stays. Removing it on either side withdraws the keys on both.
• A request waits a few minutes for you to approve it, and doesn’t survive a restart of the app it’s waiting on. If it runs out, just connect again.
• If a link stops working, press reconnect in monloader (or connect to monloader again in the extension, after removing its old pairing in monloader) and approve the new request. The old pairing keeps working until you do.

Step by step: monloader pairing, monsender setup. For scripts of your own, see API and plugins and monloader’s API.