Version 3.2.3 (Released May 9, 2020)

MAL Updater OS X Users: To receive a new format license, upgrade to the latest version of MAL Updater OS X 2.4.x and open the about window. The license key will appear. Copy that and use it to register Hachidori

Hachidori requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later. Compatible with macOS Catalina.

New Features

Fixed stream detection for Funimation

Known Issues

There is an issue with Discord support when the user quits Discord and relaunches it with Discord Activities enabled, it crashes. Will transition Discord support to a XPC Service to separate it from the Hachidori process to prevent future crashes.

Version 3.2.2 (Released March 14, 2020)

This release fixes Funimation watch history stream detection from Edge Browser, adds Opera and Brave Browser stream detection support.

Hachidori requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later. Compatible with macOS Catalina.

New Features

Fixed Funimation Watch History stream detection for Chrome-based browsers
Added support for Brave Browser and Opera for stream detection. (Opera does not support sites that require HTML scraping or Javascript)

Version 3.2.1 (Released March 1, 2020)

This release fixes stream detection from Edge Browser and adds the ability to scrobble from the Funimation’s Watch History (located under user’s My Account).

Hachidori requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later. Compatible with macOS Catalina.

New Features

Add ability to scrobble from Funimation’s watch history

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Fixed stream detection from Edge Browser.

Version 3.2 (Released January 20, 2020)

The stable release of Hachidori 3.2 is now released with MyAnimeList support.

Hachidori requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later. Compatible with macOS Catalina.

New Features

Add stream detection support for Microsoft Edge for Mac
Transition from DiscordRPC to Discord SDK for Discord Activities (formerly Rich Presence)
Added MyAnimeList support
Added ability to view the scrobble log from General Preferences
Add support for Movist Pro and Macgo Blu-Ray Player Pro

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Change help URLs to point to the new knowledge base for our apps, which replaces the Github wiki. (https://help.malupdaterosx.moe)
Fix crashing issue with blank actual title.
Fixed stream detection (decode any HTML escaped titles)
Removed Yahoo View support since the service is discontinued
Added prompt when refreshing of token fails
Fix crash with GBPing
A label will now show indicating the account the token refresh has failed for
Updated Sparkle Framework
Updated Copyright Year
Improved Token Refreshing (Token refreshes as needed when user confirms a title or updates the currently scrobbled title’s status)

Version 3.1.10 (Released September 10, 2019)

Various improvements and fixes

Hachidori requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later. Compatible with macOS Catalina Beta.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Token Refreshing will now refresh expired tokens for all logged in accounts if MultiScrobble is enabled
Fix logged in user information refreshing for AniList

Version 3.1.9 (Released June 4, 2019)

Improved Crunchyroll detection.

Hachidori requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later. Compatible with macOS Catalina Beta.

New Features

Add stream detection support for Microsoft Edge for Mac

Bug fixes and Enhancements

Improved Crunchyroll detection

Version 3.1.8 (Released May 6, 2019)

This release contains some fixes,

Hachidori requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later. Compatible with macOS Mojave.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Stability fixes when user confirms a title in some instances

Version 3.1.7 (Released April 22, 2019)

This release contains some fixes,

Hachidori requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later. Compatible with macOS Mojave.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Stability fixes
Fix bug where the app crashes if it can’t run command to detect video.

Version 3.1.6 (Released April 15, 2019)

This release contains some fixes,

Hachidori requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later. Compatible with macOS Mojave.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Stability fixes
Updated Discord-RPC framework
Detect title type from the corrected title after correction/auto correction rules are applied.

Version 3.1.5 (Released April 9, 2019)

Stability fixes. Adds crash reporter dialog if a crash occurs, which will show when the program is relaunched.

Hachidori requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later. Compatible with macOS Mojave.

New Features

Added crash reporter dialog to allow users to enter steps to reproduce bug and include the log file.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Stability fixes

Version 3.1.4 (Released April 1, 2019)

Fixes VRV detection

Hachidori requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later. Compatible with macOS Mojave.

New Features

Added option in preferences to allow users to opt out of Crash Reporting and Statistics (donors only)

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Fix VRV stream detection

Version 3.1.3 (Released March 20, 2019)

Stability fixes and fixes AniList Authorization.

Hachidori requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later. Compatible with macOS Mojave.

New Features

A list of current patrons can be seen in the about dialog

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Stability fixes
Fixed AniList authorization (for those who haven’t logged in yet)

Version 3.1.2 (Released March 10, 2019)

Stability fixes and add logging.

Hachidori requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later. Compatible with macOS Mojave.

New Features

Add logging to help aid in debugging and resolving bugs or issues(Logs sre saved in the user’s Hachidori Application Support directory, e.g. /Users/kafuuchino/Library/Application Support/Hachidori/Hachidori.log)

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Added title id check so the program won’t crash if it attempts to scrobble a title with a null title id. It will simply report as a failed scrobble and write the title and episode of the failed title to the log file.
Replaced Fabric and Crashlytics to Microsoft AppCenter since Firebase won’t officially support macOS.

Version 3.1.1 (Released February 25, 2019)

Adds support for Patreon Licenses

Hachidori requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later. Compatible with macOS Mojave.

New Features

Add support for Patreon licenses.

Version 3.1 (Released February 3, 2019)

Adds MultiScrobble support for donors and adds various improvements.

Hachidori requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later. Compatible with macOS Mojave.

New Features

Added MultiScrobble feature (donors only)
Torrent index is saved to the disk, allowing user to view torrents added in the past 90 days.
Search results can now be saved, allowing results to be saved on the disk. (Adding new auto-download rules will automatically save search results).
Add additional sources for torrent index in the Torrent Browser
Add option to switch to beta update channel (Beta updates are enabled when using a prerelease build)

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

When launching the Torrent Browser, it will now show a legal disclaimer message that the user must accept.
Last Scrobbled title will persist when the user changes services. If nothing is scrobbled to the switched service, it will show no scrobbled title information.
Remove any zeros that is before the actual episode number (e.g. 09 -> 9)
Fixed bug where Auto Correction entries are not being cleared or updated properly (e.g. inserting existing records when they still exist).

Version 3.0.9 (Released January 4, 2018)

This release fixes a bug where Hachidori detects a non-video file along with some title recognition improvements.

Hachidori requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later. Compatible with macOS Mojave.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Fix bug where a non-video file is detected as a video file. Now, Hachidori will only detect files with valid video file extensions (.avi,.mkv,.mp4,.ogm,.rm,.rmvb,.wmv,.divx,.mov,.flv,.mpg,.3g).
Improve season detection
Improve title recognition by adding an exact title comparison (without regular expressions) to the title recognition process.

Version 3.0.8 (Released October 29.2018)

Adds Elmedia Player and Elmedia Video Player Support.

Hachidori requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later. Compatible with macOS Mojave.

New Features

Add support for Elmedia Player and Elmedia Video Player for player detection support (Local video files only)

Version 3.0.7 (Released October 22, 2018)

Some bug fixes.

Hachidori requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later. Compatible with macOS Mojave.

Bug Fixes and Enhancement

Fix bug where update status dialog crashes.
Fix bug where the service menu items aren’t disabled when a scrobbling operation is in progress.

Version 3.0.6 (Released October 15, 2018)

Some bug fixes.

Hachidori requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later. Compatible with macOS Mojave Beta.

Bug Fixes and Enhancement

Fix crash when torrent index/search results is retrieved
Fix crash when the scrobbler attempts to search for a title id with no detected title. It will error out instead.
Fix crash when the last updated date is saved after updating Anime Relations/Auto Correction data.

Version 3.0.5 (Released September, 2, 2018)

Adds Sony Crackle and Adult Swim stream detection support.

Hachidori requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later. Compatible with macOS Mojave Beta.

New Features

Added support for Sony Crackle stream detection.
Added support for Adult Swim stream detection.

Version 3.0.4 (Released August 27, 2018)

This release improves stability.

Hachidori requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later. Compatible with macOS Mojave Beta.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Fix bug where the application crashes when a Kitsu user logs in and does not have a profile name set. Use the display name if available and use the profile name as an alternative.
Fix bug where the program crashes when the Preferences Window is opened to allow the user to login.

Version 3.0.3 (Released August 20, 2018)

This release adds HTTPS support for Plex Media Server, fixes detection and add Patreon support.

Hachidori requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later. Compatible with macOS Mojave Beta.

New Features

Patreon supporters can now sign in to unlock donor features if he or she is an active patron. (At the moment, it only supports one user/one Mac)
Add HTTPS support for Plex Media Server detection.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Fix detection of video files that contain UTF-8 characters.
Fix Plex Media Server preferences UI.

Version 3.0.2 (Released August 13, 2018)

This release improves Plex Media Server detection when media that is being played is transcoded. Hachidori will now use the Plex Agent’s metadata to retrieve the title, episode and season data. If this data is not available, it will fall back on the title.

Hachidori requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later. Compatible with macOS Mojave Beta.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Improve Plex Media Server Detection when a user is playing transcoded media.

Version 3.0.1 (Released August 3, 2018)

Adds Anime Digital Network stream detection support, improves macOS Mojave support, and adds App Notarization support

Hachidori requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later. Compatible with macOS Mojave Beta.

New Features

Anime Digital Network Stream Detection Support
App is now Notarized for macOS Mojave
Add usage description for Automation under macOS Mojave describing it’s uses for media detection

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Changed how stream detection works to work better under macOS Mojave while maintaining compatibility for older macOS versions.
Improve Funimation stream detection
Avoid stream detection from getting an exception of the DOM can’t be retrieved in Google Chrome.

Version 3.0 (Released July 30, 2018)

We have gone gold. This release adds AniList support and bunch of features from MAL Updater OS X

Hachidori requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later. Compatible with macOS Mojave Beta.

New Features

macOS Mojave Support
Add support for AniList
Add support for Anime Relations, replaces Auto Exceptions for zero episodes, split-cours and abnormal episode numberings.
Add Discord Rich Presence support
Add ability to tweet on scrobble
Add torrent browser and ability to download torrents automatically (Donors only)
Hachidori will now set start and end dates automatically
Asiancrush stream detection support
Allow MAL Updater OS X Donation Licenses to be accepted (New Format)

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Auto Exceptions renamed to Auto Title Correction
Improve Auto Title Correction for titles that have a season number
Improve Title Recognition
Replace most of the toolbar icons, most coming from Icons8
The prompt to ask a user to move Hachidori to the Applications folder is now back.
Fix crash when a user tries to correct a title.
Add support for new license format for donation licenses
Fix crash when a user haven’t set a profile name in Kitsu. Use the display name first instead.
Add support for logging into Kitsu using E-Mail addresses.
Attempt to fix Wakanim stream detection
Improve title recognition stability
Improve Plex Media Server detection.
Removed MAL Sync feature (Due to MAL API long downtime). MyAnimeList support will be added back if the API ever returns.
Add input validation for Status Update and check the status of an anime if it’s airing or completed before making the update.
Add end date to the additional information section, if available.

Version 3.0-beta1 (Released July 23, 2018)

We have finally reached Beta. This release provide some fixes as we head to the final release within a few weeks.

Hachidori requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later.

New Features

The current service name will appear on the menu

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Show site name in the offline queue.
Fix offline queue capability for AniList
Add missing title synopsis in the Title Correction dialog
Remove HTML tags from the synopsis for AniList
Add end date to the additional information section, if available.

Version 3.0-alpha9 (Released July 18, 2018)

This release fixes a few bugs and allows MAL Updater OS X licenses (new format) to be accepted due to DeNA taking down the MAL API with no signs of returning.

Hachidori requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later.

New Features

Allow MAL Updater OS X Donation Licenses to be accepted

Bug Fixes

Fix bug when an AniList user corrects a newly added title with “Delete Title on Correction” enabled in the correction dialog
Improve Plex Media Server detection.
Removed MAL Sync feature (Due to MAL API long downtime). MyAnimeList support will be added back if the API ever returns.

Version 3.0-alpha8 (Released July 9, 2018)

Adds Asiancrush stream detection support and adds a message notifying users about the service menu.

Purchased a donation key for MAL Updater OS X and decided to switch to AniList or Kitsu? Until the MAL API returns, we will help you with the transition by giving out free Hachidori donation keys for those who donated to MAL Updater OS X. You can request one by sending an email to ateliershiori@moyit.pro with your FastSpring invoice

Hachidori requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later.

New Features

Asiancrush stream detection support
Add a message that shows after login telling the user about the Service menu.

Version 3.0-alpha7 (Released June 28, 2018)

This release adds the ability to automatically set start and end dates.

Hachidori requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later.

New Features

Hachidori will now set start and end dates automatically

Bug Fixes and Improvements

Improve title recognition for AniList
Add input validation for Status Update and check the status of an anime if it’s airing or completed before making the update.

Version 3.0-alpha6 (Released June 21, 2018)

Improves stability and attempts to fix Wakanim detection.

Hachidori requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Attempt to fix Wakanim stream detection
Code improvements
Improve title recognition stability
Temporarily remove MAL Sync

Version 3.0-alpha 5 (Released June 14, 2018)

This release fixes a crash when a user attempts to correct a title.

Hachidori requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later.

Add support for new license format for donation licenses
Improve Discord Rich Presence
Fix crash when a user haven’t set a profile name in Kitsu. Use the display name first instead.
Add support for logging into Kitsu using E-Mail addresses.

Known Issues

MAL Sync is broken due to API disablement. Also, not yet implemented for AniList.

Version 3.0-alpha 4 (Released June 11, 2018)

This release fixes a crash when a user attempts to correct a title.

Hachidori requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Fix crash when a user tries to correct a title.

Known Issues

MAL Sync is broken due to API disablement. Also, not yet implemented for AniList.

Version 3.0-alpha 3 (Released June 2, 2018)

This release finally fixes the private bug where Hachidori will set entries private when it’s not set. The private state now reads properly. Also, the title search cache is fixed for AniList users. It is recommended to clear the search cache to avoid conflicts. You can do this by clicking the “Clear Search Cache” button in General Preferences.

Hachidori requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Fixed Search Cache for AniList users
Fixed bug where Private status is being read incorrectly.
The prompt to ask a user to move Hachidori to the Applications folder is now back.

Known Issues

MAL Sync is broken due to API disablement. Also, not yet implemented for AniList.

Version 3.0-alpha 2 (Released May 30, 2018)

This release of Hachidori impoves AniList support and adds enhanced social networking features along with a Torrent Browsers for donors. Note that this release may have bugs.

Hachidori Donation Keys are now separate and MAL Updater OS X/MAL Library keys will not work. Anyone who donated prior to April 30, 2017 can use their existing keys. In addition, Hachidori keys will not work in MAL Updater OS X/MAL Library.

Hachidori requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later.

New Features

Add Discord Rich Presence support
Add ability to tweet on scrobble
Add torrent browser and ability to download torrents automatically (Donors only)

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Fixed updating of Status for Kitsu and AniList
View Title Information and Share items will show the correct URL according to the current service
Replace most of the toolbar icons, most coming from Icons8

From the previous release

New Features

Add support for AniList
Add support for Anime Relations, replaces Auto Exceptions for zero episodes, split-cours and abnormal episode numberings.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Auto Exceptions renamed to Auto Title Correction
Improve Auto Title Correction for titles that have a season number
Improve Title Recognition

Known Issues

MAL Sync is broken due to API disablement. Also, not yet implemented for AniList.

Version 2.2.3 (Released March 15, 2018)

Improves authentication with Kitsu. Hachidori will retrieve the user id based on your OAuth Token.

If you have trouble logging in, use your username slug instead. You can find this by going to your profile and looking at the URL in the address bar.

Hachidori 2.0 requires macOS 10.9 Mavericks or later. Mavericks support will be discontinued in 2.3.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Improve authentication by retrieving the user’s id using the OAuth token.

Version 2.2.2 (Released March 5, 2018)

Minor update fixing alternative title detection and other bugs.

Hachidori 2.0 requires macOS 10.9 Mavericks or later. Mavericks support will be discontinued in 2.3.

New Features

Add stream detection support for Yahoo View and Tubitv.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Fix Hidive stream detection
Improve Plex Web Stream Detection
Update Anitomy Framework
Fixed setting of reachability’s IP address/host name if the Plex Media Server/Plex Home Theater and Kodi/Unofficial MAL API URL is changed.

Version 2.2.1 (Released January 17, 2018)

Minor update fixing alternative title detection and improve Amazon Prime Video detection.

Hachidori 2.0 requires macOS 10.9 Mavericks or later. Mavericks support will be discontinued in 2.3.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Improve Amazon Prime Video detection
Improve title recognition of alternative titles.

Version 2.2 (Released January 5, 2018)

Adds Amazon Prime Video detection support (HTML5 Player only).

Hachidori 2.0 requires macOS 10.9 Mavericks or later. Mavericks support will be discontinued in 2.3.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Add Amazon Prime Video detection support (HTML5 Player only).

Version 2.1.1 (Released November 28, 2017)

Improves Plex Media Server detection and fixes various bugs.

“Open Stream and Update” feature is now removed, but streamlink detection still exists. To open streams with Streamlink, use iStreamLink

Hachidori 2.0 requires macOS 10.9 Mavericks or later. Mavericks support will be discontinued in 2.2.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Fix crashes when Plex Media Detection is turned on with a media file having more than one session
Fix crash when user views About dialog in macOS 10.11 or earlier.
Update API URLs and homepage urls

Version 2.1 (Released November 15, 2017)

Fixes Compatibility with macOS versions 10.9, 10.10, and 10.11.

“Open Stream and Update” feature is now removed, but streamlink detection still exists. To open streams with Streamlink, use iStreamLink

Hachidori 2.0 requires macOS 10.9 Mavericks or later. Mavericks support will be discontinued in 2.2.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Compatibility with macOS versions 10.9, 10.10, and 10.11

Version 2.0 (Released November 2, 2017)

Official release, adds Kitsu support and many more.

“Open Stream and Update” feature is now removed, but streamlink detection still exists. To open streams with Streamlink, use iStreamLink

Hachidori 2.0 requires macOS 10.9 Mavericks or later. Mavericks support will be discontinued in 2.1.

New Features

Hachidori now works with Kitsu.
Improved detection for Episode 0 specials
Donation reminder added when MAL Sync is enabled (since we have to host the Unofficial MAL API). This reminder can be removed with a donation key. The reminder will not show if this functionality is disabled.
IINA and VLCX player support
Ability to queue updates while offline
Netflix and Funimation stream detection now works in Google Chrome
Viewster stream detection officially works
Add option to show correction dialog when a title is not found
Kitsu’s new rating system is now fully implemented with simple rating support
NicePlayer detection and improved player detection.
Ability to now ignore mplayer based players on a player basis (MPlayer OSX Extended, SMPlayerX, MPlayerX, etc)
Support for mplayer2 detection
Hidive and VRV.co stream detection support
Add detection from Crunchyroll’s watch history for stream detection.
Plex Media Server/Plex Theater detection support

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Perform login on the client side using the official APIs to verify the user’s credentials. (MAL Sync)
Check user’s MAL credentials every 24 hours before performing MAL Sync
Improve title recognition for stream detection
Improved title recognition
Title cache now stores the detected season from a title.
Add a fallback if there is no poster image for a given title.
Fix VLC detection
MAL Sync now performs the sync asynchronously instead of freezing after scrobble.
Hachidori now resets it’s state when an account is removed (reset last scrobbled title and now playing)
Changed Regular Expressions Library to CocoaOniguruma
Fix bug where opening the preferences window causes the program to freeze if an AFP share is offline while checking if Hachidori in the startup items.
Fix title recognition with titles that contains colons that are corrected or had an auto exception rule applied
Fix crunchyroll detection so it won’t detect non-anime pages
Fix bug where a program crashes when Auto Exceptions is updated
Stream detection helper program will no longer crash when it can’t receive information about a tab and will continue to check other tabs and browsers.
Kodi JSON RPC detection is checked if the host running Kodi or Plex Home Theater is running.
Auto Exception improvements and the URL containing that data moved to a new location.
Fixed Anime Exceptions for Anime Movies
Change all references of Hummingbird to Kitsu
Hachidori test case now compatible with Kitsu. Updated test data.
Improved title recognition with Kitsu
Updated Anitomy framework
MyAnimeList Sync now works with Kitsu. Fixed keychain issue with MyAnimeList Sync

Version 2.0 Release Candidate 2 (Released October 9, 2017)

Almost there to a final release. This release improves title recognition, especially for stream detection in regards to seasons.

“Open Stream and Update” feature is now removed, but streamlink detection still exists. To open streams with Streamlink, use iStreamLink

Hachidori 2.0 requires macOS 10.9 Mavericks or later. Mavericks support will be discontinued in late Fall 2017.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Improve title recognition for stream detection
Title cache now stores the detected season from a title.
Add a fallback if there is no poster image for a given title.

Version 2.0 Release Candidate 1 (Released October 4, 2017)

Almost there to a final release. This release fixes more bugs including one that causes a crash if a series have no total episodes count. Adds IP support for Plex Media Server detection.

“Open Stream and Update” feature is now removed, but streamlink detection still exists. To open streams with Streamlink, use iStreamLink

Hachidori 2.0 requires macOS 10.9 Mavericks or later. Mavericks support will be discontinued in late Fall 2017.

New Features

Add IP support for Plex Media Server Detection

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Fix crash where updating Auto Exceptions definitions crash due to invalid output from server
Fix crash where an user attempts to update a title with no total episodes count
Various code improvements

Version 2.0 Beta 14 (Released August 28, 2017)

Allows stream detection from the crunchyroll watch history.

Hachidori 2.0 requires macOS 10.9 Mavericks or later. Mavericks support will be discontinued in late Fall 2017.

New Features

Add detection from Crunchyroll’s watch history for stream detection.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Fix bug where the detected episode equals to total episodes does not set the title as complete.

Version 2.0 Beta 13 (Released July 20, 2017)

Detection fixes for Streamlink and a new preference pane for Plex Media Server detection (no longer in Advanced Preferences).

Hachidori 2.0 requires macOS 10.9 Mavericks or later. Mavericks support will be discontinued in late Fall 2017.

New Features

Plex Media Server settings moved to a separate preferences pane.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Fix streamlink installer for python and streamlink installation
Improve streamlink detection when arguments are used in the command line
Donation Licenses changes.

Version 2.0 Beta 12 (Released July 9, 2017)

NOTICE: This update is required in order to use MAL Sync due to changes with MAL API.

Now that Hummingbird is now Kitsu, I had to make changes to make Hachidori work with Kitsu. This is an beta build and it should work for the most part. In the Beta phase, I will be adding more features as the Kitsu API rolls out. Please report any bugs.

The framework that handles OAuth authentication has changed, thus you need to login again.

Hachidori 2.0 requires macOS 10.9 Mavericks or later. Mavericks support will be discontinued in late Fall 2017.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Perform login on the client side using the official APIs to verify the user’s credentials.
Check user’s MAL credentials every 24 hours before performing MAL Sync
UI fixes for Plex Media Server preferences

Version 2.0 Beta 11 (Released July 8, 2017)

Adds Plex Media Server/Plex Media Player support and fixes some bug.

The framework that handles OAuth authentication has changed, thus you need to login again.

Hachidori 2.0 requires macOS 10.9 Mavericks or later. Mavericks support will be discontinued in late Fall 2017.

New Features

Plex Media Server/Plex Theater detection support (experimental)

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Fix crash when a user tries to login.
Fix correction of OVA and Specials with no episode number

Version 2.0 Beta 10 (Released June 25, 2017)

Adds stream detection support for VRV.co (Crunchyroll) and Hidive.

The framework that handles OAuth authentication has changed, thus you need to login again.

Hachidori 2.0 requires macOS 10.9 Mavericks or later. Mavericks support will be discontinued in late Fall 2017.

New Features

Hidive and VRV.co stream detection support

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Various improvements

Version 2.0 Beta 9 (Released June 2, 2017)

Adds support for Kitsu’s new scoring system, improves detection and other fixes.

The framework that handles OAuth authentication has changed, thus you need to login again.

Hachidori 2.0 requires macOS 10.9 Mavericks or later. Mavericks support will be discontinued in late Fall 2017.

New Features

Kitsu’s new rating system is now fully implemented with simple rating support
NicePlayer detection and improved player detection.
Ability to now ignore mplayer based players on a player basis (MPlayer OSX Extended, SMPlayerX, MPlayerX, etc)
Support for mplayer2 detection

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Hachidori now resets it’s state when an account is removed (reset last scrobbled title and now playing)
Improved title recognition
MAL Sync now performs the sync asynchronously instead of freezing after scrobble.

Version 2.0 Beta 8 (Released April 30, 2017)

Minor bugfix build fixing any crashes discovered and improves recognition.

The framework that handles OAuth authentication has changed, thus you need to login again.

Hachidori 2.0 requires macOS 10.9 Mavericks or later

New Features

Add option to show correction dialog when a title is not found

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Fix various crashes
Fix detection for Streamlinkdetect where escaped html characters are not unescaped.
Changed Regular Expressions Library to CocoaOniguruma
Fix bug where opening the preferences window causes the program to freeze if an AFP share is offline while checking if Hachidori in the startup items.
Fix title recognition with titles that contains colons that are corrected or had an auto exception rule applied
Fix crunchyroll detection so it won’t detect non-anime pages

Version 2.0 Beta 6 (Released April 4, 2017)

Minor bugfix build fixing any crashes discovered.

The framework that handles OAuth authentication has changed, thus you need to login again.

Hachidori 2.0 requires macOS 10.9 Mavericks or later

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Fix Open Stream and Update Feature if a custom player is specified in the streamlink config
Fix bug where a program crashes when Auto Exceptions is updated
Stream detection helper program will no longer crash when it can’t receive information about a tab and will continue to check other tabs and browsers.

Version 2.0 Beta 5 (Released April 1, 2017)

Minor bugfix build fixing any crashes with exceptions and add detection of open streamlink streams that are not opened by Hachidori

The framework that handles OAuth authentication has changed, thus you need to login again.

Hachidori 2.0 requires macOS 10.9 Mavericks or later

New Features

Added automated installer for streamlink
Detection of streamlink streams that are currently open.

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Fix crashing bug where auto exceptions and manual exceptions cause the program to crash
Fix the correction dialog if a user selects a title with no total episodes
Open stream dialog should select the best stream quality by default

Version 2.0 Beta 4 (Released March 25, 2017)

The framework that handles OAuth authentication has changed, thus you need to login again.

Hachidori 2.0 requires macOS 10.9 Mavericks or later

New Features

Add Streamlink support, allowing the user to open a stream and update their list at the same time
Netflix and Funimation stream detection now works in Google Chrome
Viewster stream detection officially works

Fixes and Enhancements

Updated frameworks
Fixed the View on Kitsu and Sharing options
Fixed a crash on macOS 10.9 Mavericks when Hachidori is built with Xcode 8 on Sierra

Version 2.0 Beta 3 (Released March 17th, 2017)

Additional fixes, VLCX and IINA player support and Offline Queue support.

The framework that handles OAuth authentication has changed, thus you need to login again.

Hachidori 2.0 requires macOS 10.9 Mavericks or later

New Features

IINA and VLCX player support
Ability to queue updates while offline

Fixes and Enhancements

Access Tokens will automatically refresh when they expire
Modal alert boxes will now show as sheet windows
Improved Plex Stream Detection
Code immprovements and updated frameworks
Kodi JSON RPC detection is checked if the host running Kodi or Plex Home Theater is running.

Version 2.0 Beta 2 (Released January 10th, 2017)

Made improvements to Auto Exceptions with improved detection for Episode 0 titles.

Hachidori 2.0 requires macOS 10.9 Mavericks or later

New Features

Improved detection for Episode 0 specials
Donation reminder added when MAL Sync is enabled (since we have to host the Unofficial MAL API). This reminder can be removed with a donation key. The reminder will not show if this functionality is disabled.

Fixes and Enhancements

Auto Exception improvements and the URL containing that data moved to a new location.

Version 2.0 Beta 1 (Released December 22nd, 2016)

Hachidori 2.0 requires macOS 10.9 Mavericks or later

The changelog reflects all the changes since the last stable build.

New Features

Hachidori now works with Kitsu.
Hachidori is now localizable.

Fixes and Enhancements

Fixed Anime Exceptions for Anime Movies
Change all references of Hummingbird to Kitsu
Hachidori test case now compatible with Kitsu. Updated test data.
Improved title recognition with Kitsu
Updated Anitomy framework
MyAnimeList Sync now works with Kitsu. Fixed keychain issue with MyAnimeList Sync

Known Issues

Episode 0 titles do not detect properly.

Version 2.0 Alpha 3 (Released December 16th, 2016)

Now that Hummingbird is now Kitsu, I had to make changes to make Hachidori work with Kitsu. This is an alpha build for testing purposes and there may be bugs or features that do not work. Please report any bugs.

You need to upgrade to this build so you can cotinue to use Hachidori with Kitsu.

Hachidori 2.0 requires macOS 10.9 Mavericks or later

New Features

Hachidori works with Kitsu

Fixes and Enhancements

Fixed Anime Exceptions for Anime Movies
Updated Anitomy
Improved Title Recognition

Known Issues

MAL Sync does not work since the Kitsu API does not bring back the MyAnimeList title ID. Further implementation may be needed to make this work again.
Search Cache must be cleared in Preferences before scrobbling. Hachidori now uses ids instead of slugs.
Recognition of Episode 0 titles do not work. I need to come up with another solution

Version 1.1.9.1 (Released November 2nd, 2016)

Bug fix build to fix stream detection

Note: Future versions of Hachidori will be distributed in signed disk images due to changes in macOS Sierra which will affect the Sparkle Updater.

Fixes and Enhancements

Fix Viz stream detection

Version 1.1.9 (Released August 27th, 2016)

Bug fix build

Note: Future versions of Hachidori will be distributed in disk images due to changes in macOS Sierra which will affect the Sparkle Updater.

Fixes and Enhancements

Add proper detection support for chaptered MKV files
Fixed Crunchyroll detection
Saving credentials to Keychain (logging in) now works on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion)
Move Application dialog will no longer show up in macOS Sierra due to changes with Gatekeeper.
Update Appcast URL to new location

Version 1.1.8 (Released June 30, 2016)

This release fixes some bugs and adds MyAnimeList Sync.

New Features

Add MyAnimeList Sync
MyAnimeList Stream Detection Support

Fixes and Enhancements

Fixed the Delete on Correction for title correction. That option suddenly disappeared for some reason.
Use JSON for form data for the authentication API opposed to url encoded form data as it may cause problems with passwords containing specific special characters.
Add Google Chrome Canary and Chromium Stream Detection Support

Version 1.1.7.4 (Released April 16, 2016)

Minor release build that fixes one bug and add support for more players.

New Features

Added support for Beamer and Squire.

Fixes and Enhancements

Fix Reauthorize Button in the Login Preferences

Version 1.1.7.3 (Released April 2, 2016)

This is a minor release that adds stream detection support for Safari Technology Preview and updates the Anitomy and Sparkle frameworks.

New Features

Add stream detection support for Safari Technology Preview

Fixes and Enhancements

Update Anitomy and Sparkle to latest versions
Appcast now uses HTTPS
Status icon is now aligned properly

Version 1.1.7.2 (Released January 9, 2016)

This is a minor bug fix build that fixes an issue with stream detection potentially crashing Hachidori

Fixes and Enhancements

Fix potential crash if detect stream happens to crash.

Version 1.1.7.1 (Released November 11, 2015)

This release provides a minor fix to users who are on El Capitan and can’t check for updates due to App Transport Security changes on the new OS. If you use Yosemite or earlier, you should probably install this update in case if you upgrade to El Capitan.

Fixes and Enhancements

Sparkle Updater (Software Updates) now work under El Capitan

Version 1.1.7 (Released October 23, 2015)

This release adds Funimation supportstream detection support (in all browsers except Chrome) and add security by moving the user authentication information to the login keychain (which is encrypted), which is associated with the account you use to log into OS X.

Note that this release is Developer ID signed.

New Features

User authentication information is now stored in the Keychain
Funimation stream detection support (in all browsers except Chrome)

Fixes and Enhancements

Hachidori is comparable with OS X El Capitan 10.11
Updated Anitomy library
Hachidori will now automatically generate a new token when the one stored in the Keychain is not valid with the user’s authentication information stored in the Keychain

Version 1.1.6 (Released August 29, 2015)

This release is finally Developer ID signed. Therefore, it’s no longer necessary to bypass Gatekeeper to run the application.

New Features

Viewster Support (Beta)
Applescripting Support
Application is now Developer ID signed

Bug Fixes and Improvements

Removed AnimeSols support since the company is defunct
Fixed potential crashing issues with Plex/Kodi support
Fixed bug where a show is still being marked as rewatch when it’s reverted.

Version 1.1.5 (Released May 24, 2015)

New Features

Rewatch tracking has been added and enabled by default.
Ability to ignore titles from certain sources

Enhancements and bugfixes

Updated Anitomy and use the Anime type element to filter anime types (movie, special, OVA, etc)
Use Anitomy to check for invalid anime types (PV, opening, ending, etc)
Adding a new Anime exception rule/importing will no longer cause the list of exception rules to disappear
Fix bug where the “Find Unrecognized Title” menu item won’t hide after a title is corrected
Improve detection of movies and specials without episode numbers

Version 1.1.4.1 (Released March 31, 2015)

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Add option to recognize title from the file name with the Kodi/Plex Theater RPC API (required if you are using a Plex Agent)

Version 1.1.4 (Released March 30, 2015)

##New Features

Added Kodi/Plex Theater JSON RPC API Detection support as an Advanced Option
Show on Hummingbird Button replaces Perferences Toolbar Icon in the status window

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Updated Anitomy Library
Improved Crunchyroll detection for certain URLs
Colons are removed from titles when title recognition (finding the title ID) is performed
Detection for Episode 0 specials has been added

1.1.3 (March 5th, 2015)

New Features

Added Anime Sols and Wakanim Stream detection support

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Updated Anitomy Library
Improved Netflix Detection under Yosemite for Macs that support the HTML5 Player
Improved Title Recognition
Improved Auto Exceptions (it should accept all detected titles while ignoring case)

1.1.2 (February 14th, 2015)

New Features

You can now correct a title without adding an exception rule

Bug Fixes and Improvements

Ability to use auto exception rules that apply to all fansub and stream releases
Stream detection can now properly detect seasons
All the toolbar icons are now Retina ready
Improved Netflix Detection
Improved scoring of two matches when recognizing the title on Hummingbird
Fixed disable vibrancy option under Yosemite
Fixed a bug where update status toolbar icon does not enable when the title already exist on the list and is pending confirmation
Various source code and memory usage improvements

Bug Fixes and Improvements

1.1.1 (February 8th, 2015)

Bug Fixes

Fixed a rare crash due to the HTTP request class using objects that are not thread safe
Series with 0 total episodes can now be updated due to episode check being fixed
Fixed the “Find Unrecognized Title” feature

1.1 (February 7th, 2015)

New Features

Auto Exceptions has been added to deal with fansub group releases who continue to number their episodes (e.g. Aldnoah Zero). Also, socially driven.
Add ability to set offsets and thresholds to Anime Exceptions.
Now you can find the correct title that Hachidori was unable to find.
Added support for Netflix – Only works in Safari, Omniweb, Roccat Browser and Webkit.
Added support for Plex Media Server (locally and through plex.tv/web/app)

Bug Fixes and Improvements

Season recognition has been improved (also uses Anitomy’s Season Element)
Scrobbler activity can now be seen in Console.app
Detection from Movist is now supported
Confirmation of New Titles is now enabled by default
Hachidori will report back the title that it couldn’t find instead of saying “Can’t find title. Retrying in 5 mins.”
Show synopsis will appear when you select a title from the list when searching a title for title correction
OmniWeb 5 and 6 and Roccat Browser is now supported for stream detection with support for sites that require scraping.
Kodi (formerly XBMC) Support with videos on local file system or played over a network share (no UPnP or web video)
Status window shows the video file Hachidori detected from (mplayer, VLC, etc)
Added options to download new updates automatically and change frequency in Software Updates preferences.
Updated Anitomy library
Recognition engine has been improved and the accuracy is now 100% with the current unit test data
Crunchyroll detection has been improved
Fixed some bugs relating to the correction feature when confirmation of new titles/updates is enabled
Fix bug where Update Status menu item enables when a new title is unconfirmed
Fixed bug where Anime Exceptions list couldn’t be exported due to correct titles using UTF-8 characters

1.0.1 (January 10th, 2015)

Bug Fixes and Improvements

Fixes bug where season is checked when the title is pulled from the Anime Exception List, causing an incorrect detection
Fixes an issue with the Confirm Update menu item disappearing when update confirmation is turned on and user is playing the same show and episode

1.0 Final (December 30th, 2014)

New Features

Global Hotkey to Confirm an Update has been added
Added ability to start Hachidori after startup
Unit Tests has been added (requires build from source code) – Accuracy with the provided test data is currently 96%
Added option to Reauthorize account and generate a new token
Streaming support for Anime News Network, AnimeLab and Viz has been added

Bug Fixes and Improvements

Fixed bug where Hachidori reports being offline when the token is invalid
Fix bug where the title shows up as null after it’s confirmed
Indicate that an update is pending instead of showing as “last scrobbled” when confirm update/new title feature is enabled
Anime Exception Feature now uses the actual title to search for ID instead of using the stored ID for future compatibility with other Anime library managing services
Use new recognition engine and check alternate title preference options were removed and enabled by default.
Recognition engine improvements and now ONAs are properly recognized
Various fixes and improvements
Added support for more video file format extensions

1.0 Beta 3 (December 10th, 2014)

New Features

Global Hotkeys are now customizable in General Preferences
Hotkeys to show status window and toggle automatic scrobbling has been added
Option to confirm updates or new titles before they are applied to the library has been added

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Actual show title is for the last scrobbled title now shown in the Hachidori’s menu, notifications and tooltip instead of the detected title. Detected title can still be seen in the status window.
Scrobbler now checks the detected episode count against the total episodes, if any.
Fixed the correction feature with the corrected title not being added to the exceptions list if there there shows on the list already.
Redesigned Login Preferences Pane
Reduced Memory Usage and program size from switching to native HTTP request APIs.
Fixed bug where episodes in the Anime Information sections show up as null if there is no total episodes count. Now, a series with no total episodes count will show up as unknown.

1.0 Beta 2 (November 25th, 2014)

New Features

Share options are now accessible from the main Hachidori status item Menu

Fixes and Enhancements

Last updated title and episode is moved to the main status item menu
Fixed Episode correction
Change the API URLs to use the official Hummingbird API URLs instead of Mashape
Fixed issue where alternate title tagline will show when a title does not have any

1.0 Beta 1 (November 24th, 2014)

New Features

Anime Exceptions List and ability to correct incorrectly detected Anime Titles. Anime exception lists are exportable/importable
Ignore Directories and Filenames. File Name Ignore list can use Regular Expressions supported by Oniguruma
Detection Engine uses open source Anitomy Parser Library by default to parse title and episode from video file
You can correct episode number using the update status feature (Do not use it when auto scrobbling is turned on)
Yosemite UI Features (Vibrancy and new unified titlebar) are supported and can be disabled
Additional information (alternate title, rating, finished airing date) about the updated title is now shown in the status window.
Stream Detection now supports Webkit
New toolbar icons

Fixes and Enhancements

Dialog will show instead of a notification when user opens the program the first time to allow easy access to Preferences so that he/she can login.
Season detection is now fixed
Alternate title is now considered when finding the associated slug for a title and is enabled by default
Fixed memory leak when performing an update
Removed unnecessary languages and documents with associated frameworks (Sparkle and Ogrekit) resulting in smaller program size.
Fixed the Hachidori status menu Icon when the menu is open
Notification will no longer appear if Auto Scrobble at startup is enabled

1.0 Alpha 3 (November 13th, 2014)

New Features

SPlayer Support
Search Cache (quickens the Scrobbling process by storing previously updated title IDs with detected titles, can be disabled)

Improvements and Bug Fixes

Fixed crash when the user have the menu open while the program is performing an update
Quicktime Player support fixed
If the title only has one word, it’s considered as the title id
Season is properly recognized by the program
Recognition Engine improvement and fixes
Interface fixes and additional checks added before a user can log off.

1.0 Alpha 2 (October 30th, 2014)

New Features:

Stream Support for Crunchyroll and Daisuki (Safari and Chrome only)
Last Scrobbled Title viewable from Hachidori Menu. Also, Edit Status is accessible from the menu.
Hummingbird Specific Support with Ratings, Status, Notes and Privacy Support
Setting to set newly scrobbled titles with private privacy setting
On-Demand Scrobbling Global Hotkey (cmd+shift+U)
Recognition Engine Fixes
Reduced Program Size (Now, the program takes 4.7 MB instead of 6 MB)

1.0 Alpha 1 (October 24th, 2014)

Initial Release

Hachidori Change Log

Version 3.2.3 (Released May 9, 2020)

New Features

Known Issues

Version 3.2.2 (Released March 14, 2020)

New Features

Version 3.2.1 (Released March 1, 2020)

New Features

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Version 3.2 (Released January 20, 2020)

New Features

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Version 3.1.10 (Released September 10, 2019)

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Version 3.1.9 (Released June 4, 2019)

New Features

Bug fixes and Enhancements

Version 3.1.8 (Released May 6, 2019)

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Version 3.1.7 (Released April 22, 2019)

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Version 3.1.6 (Released April 15, 2019)

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Version 3.1.5 (Released April 9, 2019)

New Features

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Version 3.1.4 (Released April 1, 2019)

New Features

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Version 3.1.3 (Released March 20, 2019)

New Features

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Version 3.1.2 (Released March 10, 2019)

New Features

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Version 3.1.1 (Released February 25, 2019)

New Features

Version 3.1 (Released February 3, 2019)

New Features

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Version 3.0.9 (Released January 4, 2018)

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Version 3.0.8 (Released October 29.2018)

New Features

Version 3.0.7 (Released October 22, 2018)

Bug Fixes and Enhancement

Version 3.0.6 (Released October 15, 2018)

Bug Fixes and Enhancement

Version 3.0.5 (Released September, 2, 2018)

New Features

Version 3.0.4 (Released August 27, 2018)

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Version 3.0.3 (Released August 20, 2018)

New Features

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Version 3.0.2 (Released August 13, 2018)

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Version 3.0.1 (Released August 3, 2018)

New Features

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Version 3.0 (Released July 30, 2018)

New Features

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Version 3.0-beta1 (Released July 23, 2018)

New Features

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Version 3.0-alpha9 (Released July 18, 2018)

New Features

Bug Fixes

Version 3.0-alpha8 (Released July 9, 2018)

New Features

Version 3.0-alpha7 (Released June 28, 2018)

New Features

Bug Fixes and Improvements

Version 3.0-alpha6 (Released June 21, 2018)

Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Version 3.0-alpha 5 (Released June 14, 2018)

Known Issues

Version 3.0-alpha 4 (Released June 11, 2018)

Bug Fixes and Enhancements