Note: There is an ongoing rewrite in the 1.0.0 branch (pull requests welcome!), which will break backwards-compatibility with the current version (0.x).
Once it's released, this version will be deprecated and all development and support will be dropped.

Manga-Downloader is a cross-platform Windows/Mac/Linux Python 2/3 script.

It can be automated via an external xml file, and can convert images for viewing on the Kindle.

Currently supports mangafox.com, mangareader.net, mangapanda.com and mangahere.com with a total of over 10,000 mangas. Downloads into .cbz format, can optionally download into .zip instead.

Python 2.6+, including 3.x

PIL if using Kindle conversion.

How to backport to:

• 2.5 - change the exception-handling code and use StringIO instead of io module
• 2.4 - removing parentheses after class declarations

manga.py [options] <manga name> <manga name> <etc.>

The script will offer a choice of 3 manga sites, it will default to the first upon pressing 'enter'.

After selecting a site, the script will output a list of all chapters of the series it has found on the site you selected.

When it prompts "Download which chapters?", type in the ones you want delimited by '-' and ','. You can also type 'all' if you did not specify --all before.

--version

show program's version number and exit

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

--all

Download all available chapters.

-d <download path>, --directory=<download path>

The destination download directory. Defaults to a directory named after the manga.

--overwrite

Overwrites previous copies of downloaded chapters.

-t <number>, --threads=<number>

Limits the number of chapter threads to the user specified value. Default value is 3.

--verbose

Verbose output.

-x <xmlfile path>, --xml=<xmlfile path>

Parses the .xml file and downloads all chapters newer than the last chapter downloaded for the listed mangas.

-z, --zip

Downloads using .zip compression. Omitting this option defaults to .cbz.

-c, --convertFiles

Converts the files that are downloaded to a Format/Size ratio acceptable to the device specified by the device parameter. The converted images are saved in the directory specified by the outputDirectory parameter.

--device

Specifies the target device for the image conversion.

--convertDirectory

Converts the image files stored in the directory specified by the inputDirectory parameter. Stores the images in the directory specified by the outputDirectory Parameter

--inputDirectory

The directory containing the images to convert when convertDirectory is specified.

--outputDirectory

The directory to store the converted Images. Omitting this option defaults to DOWNLOAD_PATH/Pictures.

manga.py -d "C:\Documents and Settings\admin\Documents\Manga\" -z Bleach

On a Windows machine, downloads 'Bleach' to C:\Documents and Settings\admin\Documents\Manga\, using .zip compression.

./manga.py --overwrite Bleach

On a Linux/Unix machine, downloads 'Bleach' to ./Bleach, using .cbz compression and overwriting previously downloaded chapters.

1,2,9-12

Downloads chapters 1, 2, and 9 through 12

all

Downloads all chapters

./manga.py -x example.xml

Parses example.xml to run the script.