Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main'

# Conflicts:
#	src/metadata/anilist.exe
#	src/views/views.routes.ts

server.js

@@ -73,6 +73,36 @@ function startCppScraper() {
     });
 }
 
+function startCppScraper() {
+    const exePath = path.join(__dirname, 'src', 'metadata', 'anilist.exe');
+    const dllPath = path.join(__dirname, 'src', 'metadata', 'binaries');
+
+    if (!fs.existsSync(exePath)) {
+        console.error(`❌ C++ Error: Could not find executable at: ${exePath}`);
+        console.error("   Did you compile it? (g++ src/metadata/anilist.cpp -o src/metadata/anilist.exe ...)");
+        return;
+    }
+
+    const env = { ...process.env };
+    env.PATH = `${dllPath};${env.PATH}`;
+ 
+    console.log("⚡ Starting WaifuBoard Scraper Engine (C++)...");
+
+    const scraper = spawn(exePath, [], {
+        stdio: 'inherit', 
+        cwd: __dirname,   
+        env: env        
+    });
+
+    scraper.on('error', (err) => {
+        console.error('❌ Failed to spawn C++ process:', err);
+    });
+
+    scraper.on('close', (code) => {
+        console.log(`✅ Scraper process finished with code ${code}`);
+    });
+}
+
 const start = async () => {
     try {
         initDatabase();