Downloads comics and manga from various websites and creates pdf or cbz files from them. Currently supports mangafox.me and mangahere.co (more coming up soon).
To install the comic scraper, simply type this into your terminal (sudo -EH might be necessary):
pip install comic-scraper
Clone a copy of the repository using the following command:
git clone https://github.com/AbstractGeek/comic-scraper.git
Open your terminal into the folder and type this into it (sudo might be necessary):
pip install .
The script is written in python. It requires the following packages:
- BeautifulSoup4
- requests
- futures (concurrent.futures)
- img2pdf
These can simply be installed by:
pip install -r requirements.txt
That's it. Use comic_scraper.py to download comics and manga.
Find your comic of interest in mangafox/mangahere. Copy the url of the comic page (https supported). For example, If I wanted to download kingdom manga, I need to copy this url: https://mangafox.me/manga/kingdom/
To download all the chapters of the comic, simply call the script and input the url.
comic-scraper https://mangafox.me/manga/kingdom/
If you want to set a custom location, add -l and input the location
comic-scraper -l ~/Comics/ https://mangafox.me/manga/kingdom/
If you want to download a select few chapters, add -c and input the chapter numbers. For example, if I want to download chapters 10-20, I use the following command
comic-scraper -l ~/Comics/ -c 10:20 https://mangafox.me/manga/kingdom/
Note: Only individual chapters or sequential chunks (start:stop) can currently be downloaded.
Download format can be specified too. The current default is pdf, but comics can be downloaded as cbz files using the following command.
comic-scraper -l ~/Comics/ -c 10:20 -f cbz https://mangafox.me/manga/kingdom/
Coming soon...