mangabaka-seeder/docs/specs/003-tapas.md

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003 — Tapas source

A second source (spec 001 §4.1): covers of a Tapas series, comics and novels. Design approved by the user in chat on 2026-10-15 ("Comics and novels"). Everything else — inspection, dedupe, Wayback history, hosting, download, history — is the existing pipeline.

1. Verified facts (2026-10-15)

Checked against Villains Are Destined to Die (comic, id 186414) and its novel (id 266599), a mature series (id 286112) and Wayback captures since 2020-10. Fixtures in test/fixtures/tapas/ and test/fixtures/wayback/tapas-*.

• Series page: https://tapas.io/series/<slug>/info (its own canonical URL). /series/<slug> serves the episode reader (canonical /episode/<id>). /series/<id>/info redirects to the slug form. Slugs may contain capitals and underscores (/series/RU_Screwed).
• Series id: on the info page pageMeta : { id: <id>, type: 'series_id' }; on the reader seriesId: <id>.
• Comic or novel: the stats row links /static-landing/genre?category=COMIC or …=NOVEL. og:type is comicpanda:webcomic_series for both.
• Title: the cover image's alt in .thumb-wrapper; og:title is "Read