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+import io.github.keiyoushi.gradle.api.ContentWarning
+
+plugins {
+    alias(ns.plugins.extension)
+}
+
+keiyoushi {
+    name = "MTL Arabic"
+    versionCode = 1
+    contentWarning = ContentWarning.SAFE
+
+    source {
+        lang = "ar"
+        baseUrl = "https://mtlarabic.com"
+    }
+
+    deeplink {
+        host("mtlarabic.com")
+        path("/..*")
+    }
+}
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diff --git a/src/ar/mtlarabic/src/eu/kanade/tachiyomi/extension/ar/mtlarabic/Dto.kt b/src/ar/mtlarabic/src/eu/kanade/tachiyomi/extension/ar/mtlarabic/Dto.kt
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+package eu.kanade.tachiyomi.novelextension.ar.mtlarabic
+
+import eu.kanade.tachiyomi.source.model.SChapter
+import eu.kanade.tachiyomi.source.model.SManga
+import keiyoushi.utils.parseAs
+import keiyoushi.utils.tryParse
+import kotlinx.serialization.Serializable
+import kotlinx.serialization.json.Json
+import okhttp3.Response
+import kotlin.time.Instant
+
+/** [SManga.url] holds the numeric novel id behind this prefix. */
+const val ID_PREFIX = "id-"
+
+/** The only place the site serves real JSON; everything else is HTML with an island in it. */
+val islandJson = Json { ignoreUnknownKeys = true }
+
+@Serializable
+class ListingResponse(
+    val items: List<ListingItem> = emptyList(),
+    val pagination: ListingPagination = ListingPagination(),
+)
+
+@Serializable
+class ListingPagination(
+    val currentPage: Int = 1,
+    val totalPages: Int = 1,
+    val pageSize: Int = 12,
+)
+
+@Serializable
+class ListingItem(
+    val id: Int = 0,
+    val name: String = "",
+    val type: String = "",
+    val status: String = "",
+    /** A bare file name; the site serves covers from /images/novels/. */
+    val image: String = "",
+) {
+    fun toSManga(baseUrl: String) = SManga.create().apply {
+        // The numeric id is stored rather than the slug: slugs are Arabic and contain
+        // characters that have to be percent-encoded, and hand-encoding them is where this
+        // goes wrong. The id round-trips through any url and needs no encoding.
+        url = ID_PREFIX + id
+        title = name
+        thumbnail_url = coverUrl(baseUrl, image)
+        genre = type
+        status = mangaStatus(this@ListingItem.status)
+    }
+}
+
+@Serializable
+class NovelDetails(
+    val id: Int = 0,
+    val slug: String = "",
+    val name: String = "",
+    val originalName: String = "",
+    val description: String = "",
+    val type: String = "",
+    val status: String = "",
+    val image: String = "",
+    val totalChapters: Int = 0,
+)
+
+@Serializable
+class ChaptersResponse(
+    val chapters: List<ChapterDto> = emptyList(),
+    val pagination: ChapterPagination = ChapterPagination(),
+)
+
+@Serializable
+class ChapterPagination(
+    val totalChapters: Int = 0,
+    val totalPages: Int = 1,
+    val currentPage: Int = 1,
+)
+
+@Serializable
+class ChapterDto(
+    val number: Int = 0,
+    val title: String = "",
+    val approvalDate: String = "",
+) {
+    fun toSChapter(novelSlug: String) = SChapter.create().apply {
+        url = "/$novelSlug/$number"
+        name = title.ifBlank { "الفصل $number" }
+        chapter_number = number.toFloat()
+        date_upload = Instant.tryParse(approvalDate)
+    }
+}
+
+/** The reader's JSON island, which carries the chapter body as plain text. */
+@Serializable
+class ChapterPage(
+    val content: String = "",
+)
+
+fun coverUrl(baseUrl: String, fileName: String): String {
+    if (fileName.isEmpty()) return ""
+    if (fileName.startsWith("http")) return fileName
+    // The listing and the detail page both send a bare file name, never a path: the cover lives at
+    // /images/novels/<name>. It has to be an absolute url -- a leading-slash path is not a valid
+    // thumbnail_url and renders as an empty cover.
+    return baseUrl + "/images/novels/$fileName"
+}
+
+/** The site writes exactly these two status literals and nothing else. */
+fun mangaStatus(raw: String): Int = when (raw) {
+    "مستمرة" -> SManga.ONGOING
+    "مكتملة" -> SManga.COMPLETED
+    else -> SManga.UNKNOWN
+}
+
+/**
+ * `/novels`, `/novel-details` and the reader all answer with a full HTML page whose payload is a
+ * JSON island in a `<script type="application/json">` tag. Parsing the response body directly
+ * hands the JSON decoder a document that starts with `<!DOCTYPE html>`.
+ *
+ * The reader page carries two islands, so the first one is taken: the chapter body lives in the
+ * earlier tag, and the later one is the novel's chapter index, which has no `content` field.
+ */
+private val ISLAND = Regex("""<script[^>]*type=["']application/json["'][^>]*>([\s\S]*?)</script>""", RegexOption.IGNORE_CASE)
+
+/** Pulls the first island out of an HTML page, for use as a `String.parseAs` transform. */
+fun extractIsland(html: String): String = ISLAND.find(html)?.groupValues?.get(1)
+    ?: throw IllegalStateException("No JSON island in the page")
+
+/** Parses a response body that is an HTML page with the JSON embedded in a script tag. */
+inline fun <reified T> Response.parseAsIsland(json: Json = islandJson): T = parseAs(json) { extractIsland(it) }
diff --git a/src/ar/mtlarabic/src/eu/kanade/tachiyomi/extension/ar/mtlarabic/MtlArabic.kt b/src/ar/mtlarabic/src/eu/kanade/tachiyomi/extension/ar/mtlarabic/MtlArabic.kt
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+package eu.kanade.tachiyomi.novelextension.ar.mtlarabic
+
+import eu.kanade.tachiyomi.source.NovelSource
+import eu.kanade.tachiyomi.source.model.Filter
+import eu.kanade.tachiyomi.source.model.FilterList
+import eu.kanade.tachiyomi.source.model.MangasPage
+import eu.kanade.tachiyomi.source.model.Page
+import eu.kanade.tachiyomi.source.model.SChapter
+import eu.kanade.tachiyomi.source.model.SManga
+import eu.kanade.tachiyomi.source.model.SMangaUpdate
+import keiyoushi.annotation.Source
+import keiyoushi.network.get
+import keiyoushi.source.KeiSource
+import keiyoushi.utils.parseAs
+import kotlinx.serialization.json.JsonElement
+import okhttp3.HttpUrl
+import okhttp3.HttpUrl.Companion.toHttpUrl
+
+private const val SORT_BY_LATEST = "latest_update"
+private const val SORT_BY_CHAPTERS = "-num_chapters"
+
+/**
+ * مكتبة الخيال (mtlarabic.com) — an Arabic web-novel library.
+ *
+ * A server-rendered Node app. `/novels`, `/novel-details` and the reader answer `text/html` with
+ * their data in a `<script type="application/json">` island, so those are read through
+ * [parseAsIsland] rather than parsed as bare JSON.
+ *
+ * The chapter list is the exception: the site serves `/api/novels/{id}/chapters` as real JSON,
+ * and that is the only endpoint that paginates past the first 100 chapters.
+ */
+@Source
+abstract class MtlArabic :
+    KeiSource(),
+    NovelSource {
+
+    override val supportsLatest = true
+
+    private companion object {
+        /** The chapter endpoint's own page size; the site hardcodes 100. */
+        const val CHAPTERS_PER_PAGE = 100
+    }
+
+    // ==================== Catalogue ====================
+
+    // There is no popularity metric on the site, so "popular" is the longest novels: the listing
+    // sorted by chapter count, which is a standing signal of a novel people stayed with.
+    override suspend fun getPopularManga(page: Int): MangasPage = getNovelsPage(
+        listingUrl(page, SORT_BY_CHAPTERS),
+    )
+
+    override suspend fun getLatestUpdates(page: Int): MangasPage = getNovelsPage(
+        listingUrl(page, SORT_BY_LATEST),
+    )
+
+    override suspend fun getSearchMangaList(page: Int, query: String, filters: FilterList): MangasPage {
+        // The sort filter owns `sort` outright, so the base url is built without one — a second
+        // addQueryParameter("sort", …) on the same builder would be silently dropped.
+        var builder = "$baseUrl/novels".toHttpUrl().newBuilder()
+            .addQueryParameter("page", page.toString())
+            .addQueryParameter("q", query)
+
+        filters.forEach { filter ->
+            when (filter) {
+                is GenreFilter -> builder = builder.addQueryParameter("category", filter.selected())
+                is SortFilter -> builder = builder.addQueryParameter("sort", filter.selected())
+                else -> {}
+            }
+        }
+
+        return getNovelsPage(builder.build())
+    }
+
+    private fun listingUrl(page: Int, sort: String = SORT_BY_LATEST): HttpUrl = "$baseUrl/novels".toHttpUrl().newBuilder()
+        .addQueryParameter("page", page.toString())
+        .addQueryParameter("sort", sort)
+        .build()
+
+    private suspend fun getNovelsPage(url: HttpUrl): MangasPage {
+        val listing = client.get(url).parseAsIsland<ListingResponse>()
+        val pagination = listing.pagination
+        return MangasPage(
+            listing.items.map { it.toSManga(baseUrl) },
+            pagination.currentPage < pagination.totalPages,
+        )
+    }
+
+    // ==================== Details ====================
+
+    private fun parseDetails(details: NovelDetails) = SManga.create().apply {
+        url = ID_PREFIX + details.id
+        title = details.name
+        thumbnail_url = coverUrl(baseUrl, details.image)
+        description = details.description
+        // The site files the Chinese original title here; it is the only name besides the
+        // Arabic one, and the library has no author field of its own.
+        author = details.originalName
+        genre = details.type
+        status = mangaStatus(details.status)
+    }
+
+    private suspend fun fetchDetails(id: Int): NovelDetails = client.get(detailsUrl(id)).parseAsIsland<NovelDetails>()
+
+    private fun detailsUrl(id: Int) = "$baseUrl/novel-details?id=$id"
+
+    private fun detailsUrl(manga: SManga) = detailsUrl(manga.novelId())
+
+    override fun getMangaUrl(manga: SManga): String = detailsUrl(manga)
+
+    override suspend fun getMangaByUrl(url: HttpUrl): SManga? {
+        // The novel lives at /{slug} as well, and the slug is Arabic, so an id in the query is
+        // the only unambiguous marker. /novel-details?id= is what that link resolves to.
+        val id = url.queryParameter("id")?.toIntOrNull() ?: return null
+        return parseDetails(fetchDetails(id))
+    }
+
+    // ==================== Chapters ====================
+
+    override suspend fun fetchMangaUpdate(
+        manga: SManga,
+        chapters: List<SChapter>,
+        fetchDetails: Boolean,
+        fetchChapters: Boolean,
+    ): SMangaUpdate {
+        // One detail request serves both halves: it carries the metadata and, through
+        // totalChapters, how many chapter pages there are to walk.
+        val details = fetchDetails(manga.novelId())
+
+        return SMangaUpdate(
+            if (fetchDetails) parseDetails(details) else manga,
+            if (fetchChapters) fetchChapterList(details) else chapters,
+        )
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The detail page embeds only the first 100 chapters and ignores `?page=`, so anything past
+     * that is walked through the endpoint the site's own pager uses.
+     */
+    private suspend fun fetchChapterList(details: NovelDetails): List<SChapter> {
+        val firstPage = fetchChapterPage(details.id, 1)
+        val chapters = mutableListOf<SChapter>()
+
+        firstPage.chapters.mapTo(chapters) { it.toSChapter(details.slug) }
+        for (page in 2..firstPage.pagination.totalPages.coerceAtLeast(1)) {
+            fetchChapterPage(details.id, page).chapters.mapTo(chapters) { it.toSChapter(details.slug) }
+        }
+
+        return chapters.sortedByDescending { it.chapter_number }
+    }
+
+    // The one endpoint that answers with bare JSON, so no island extraction here.
+    private suspend fun fetchChapterPage(id: Int, page: Int): ChaptersResponse = client.get(
+        "$baseUrl/api/novels/$id/chapters?page=$page&limit=$CHAPTERS_PER_PAGE&sort=asc",
+    ).parseAs<ChaptersResponse>(islandJson)
+
+    // ==================== Reader ====================
+
+    override suspend fun getPageList(chapter: SChapter): List<Page> = listOf(Page(0, chapter.url))
+
+    override suspend fun fetchPageText(page: Page): String {
+        val chapter = client.get(baseUrl + page.url).parseAsIsland<ChapterPage>()
+        // The reader island stores the body as plain text rather than markup, one paragraph per
+        // line, with the lines separated by blank lines. The blanks are the site's own spacing and
+        // are dropped here so they don't compound with the separator below.
+        return chapter.content
+            .lineSequence()
+            .map { it.trim() }
+            .filter { it.isNotEmpty() }
+            .joinToString("\n\n")
+    }
+
+    // ==================== Filters ====================
+
+    override fun getFilterList(data: JsonElement?): FilterList = FilterList(
+        GenreFilter(),
+        SortFilter(),
+    )
+
+    private fun SManga.novelId(): Int = url.removePrefix(ID_PREFIX).toInt()
+
+    /** The site's own category select, plus the "all" entry it sends as an empty value. */
+    private class GenreFilter :
+        Filter.Select<String>(
+            "التصنيف",
+            arrayOf("الكل", "تاريخي", "حضري", "خيال", "خيال علمي", "رياضي"),
+        ) {
+        fun selected() = if (state == 0) "" else values[state]
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The site renders exactly these two sorts, and nothing else: any other value is accepted in
+     * the query string and then quietly ignored, leaving the default listing back.
+     */
+    private class SortFilter :
+        Filter.Select<String>(
+            "الترتيب",
+            arrayOf("آخر تحديث", "عدد الفصول - من أعلى لأقل"),
+        ) {
+        fun selected() = if (state == 0) SORT_BY_LATEST else SORT_BY_CHAPTERS
+    }
+}