Search and Audits

Search and Audits

Everything you scrape goes into one local index. From it you can search, audit plugins, and trace a missing asset or font to the exact nested composition path.

First, scrape projects with the AE Scraper and index the receipts:

mj index.add path=/work/receipts

Project audits

mj trace.asset format=missing
mj trace.asset target="logo.psd"
mj trace.asset format=font target="Brandon Grotesque"
mj audit.plugins target=S_Glow
mj audit.plugins

• trace.asset shows, for each project, every layer that uses the asset or font and the full nesting chain from a root comp down, for example Main > Mid > Inner. format=missing lists every missing asset. Add path=/the/project.aep to look at one project.
• audit.plugins target=<matchName> lists the unique projects that use that exact effect (case-sensitive). With no target it lists every effect matchName in the index with how many projects use it, which is the annual plugin audit.
• Only each project's newest indexed scrape counts. Projects that were never scraped are not covered.

The index and preset library

MographJailed keeps one local database in ~/Library/Application Support/MographJailed (set MJ_STORE_DIR to use another folder). It is created with owner-only permissions on the first command that writes to it, and must be on a local drive.

Indexing

mj index.add path=/work/receipts
mj index.search target="glow logo"
mj index.verify

• index.add reads scrape receipts, snapshot receipts, golden records and handoff manifests, from a file or a folder (searched recursively). Unchanged files are skipped. Other JSON is ignored.
• index.search matches words as prefixes, requires all of them, and ranks the best first. It finds comps, layers, effects, expressions, fonts, footage, snapshots, golden records, handoffs and presets. Punctuation and search operators in your words are ignored.
• index.verify checks the database, finds receipts that no longer exist on disk, and re-checks every stored preset against its hash.

Before anything is indexed, search and verify answer STORE_EMPTY and create nothing.

Presets

mj preset.add path=/work/presets/soft_glow.ffx label=soft_glow
mj preset.get label=soft_glow output=/work/out
mj preset.get label=soft_glow output=/work/out version=1

• Stores any file (up to 512 MB): .ffx, .aet, .mogrt, expressions, .c4d, Redshift materials.
• Each label keeps versions. Adding identical bytes again does not make a new version.
• preset.get checks the stored hash, then writes the original filename (or name-v1.ext if that exists). It never overwrites.