feat: Ability to change sources website about revanced-manager HOT 2 OPEN

Makes sense!
However, each website has its own API, so Manager would need to be API agnostic.
In the future, we can think of a way to make this possible somehow. Not a priority for now, though...
Thank you!!

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Makes sense! However, each website has its own API, so Manager would need to be API agnostic. In the future, we can think of a way to make this possible somehow. Not a priority for now, though... Thank you!!

A possibility would be for the API to source data directly from Git. I thought about it for the current implementation, but there's a couple complications for that approach:

1. We would have to hold a copy of each git repository from which we source data (space constraints)
2. The transformed data would need to be cached for each one of those sources, resulting in a gigantic cache (memory constraints)
3. Considering that right now we're hitting over 250K reqs/day, those costly operations would pile up in execution time (CPU constraints)

Another possibility would be to force repositories to implement and follow some standards like adding a CONTRIBUTORS file from which we can source the data for the /contributors endpoint or maintaining the patches.json file up to date with their changes so we can pull data for the /patches endpoint from there.

At the end of the day, none of those solutions are good enough given the circumstances. If you have any idea or suggestion on how can we treat this problem, please share with us.

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