OBSOLETE

this is no more working, since it was supposed to work with sites that does not exists anymore. I only keep it as a sample for go CLI tools.

gomangareaderdl

This is a simple cli tool to mass download mangas from several providers, manage history of downloaded chapters, checks if new chapters availables and continue downloads from the last chapter.

It also provide a very, very simple GUI to view one chapter of a previously downloaded manga, but that doesn't replace a proper comics viewer, like http://comicsplusplus.com for example.

Why?

They are already a lot of cli tools for mass downloading mangas, so why another one?

I wanted to start on golang and this project seems to be a nice starting point!

And the result is actually not so bad. So why not share it, isn't it?

Features

• download all available chapters for a manga
• allow to easily download new chapters
• maintain an history of the downloaded mangas
• configurable
• nice and simple to use interface

Install

First, you must have a proper go workspace already set up in order to use this tool.

Then after that, it's as easy that:

$ git clone https://github.com/francoiscolombo/gomangareaderdl.git
$ cd gomangareaderdl
$ go get
$ go install gomangareaderdl.go

This should produce an executable in your ${GOPATH}/bin directory.

Usage

gomangareaderdl: CLI for manga mass download

Usage
 $ gomangareaderdl -<command> -manga <manga>

Commands list
 -fetch     Fetch manga to download
 -config    Set defaults
 -update    Update subscribed manga
 -list      List downloaded manga

Options, Sub-commands
 -fetch
  -manga       Set manga to download
  -chapter     Set start chapter to download
  -provider    Set download site (if not set, the default provider is used)
  -path        If used, allow to download manga to another path instead of the default one
  -force       Overwrite history
  -silent      Don't display download progress bar
 -config
  -output      Set default output path
  -provider    Set default provider
 -update
  -manga       Set manga to update (must have been loaded once before)
  -provider    Override download site
  -next        Set next chapter to download (rewrite history)

Example
 $ gomangareaderdl -fetch -provider mangareader.net -manga shingeki-no-kyojin -chapter 100 -path .
 => Download shingeki-no-kyojin chapter 100 and forward into cwd

How to use it?

Start by configuring the defaults

If you don't give some optional parameters, the defaults will be used, so it's a good idea to begin by setting up these defaults.

In order to do that, simply use the command config like this:

$ gomangareaderdl -config -output /data/mangas -provider mangareader.net

by issuing this command, you set the default path to /data/mangas and the default provider to mangareader.net

Fetch your favorite mangas

After all it's the main goal of this tool, isn't it?

$ gomangareaderdl -fetch -manga shingeki-no-kyojin

This command will start to download the manga shingeki-no-kyojin from the chapter 1, and generate cbz for every chapters in the default path /data/mangas/shingeki-no-kyojin.

But you can also use a command like this one:

$ gomangareaderdl -fetch -provider mangapanda.com -manga shingeki-no-kyojin -chapter 100 -path .

Here you override the default provider and use mangapanda.com instead, you start to download from the chapter 100 and you store your cbz in the directory ./shingeki-no-kyojin

After downloading the last available chapter, the cli stop. And he keeps in his history the later downloaded chapter. Which means that the next time you launch this command:

$ gomangareaderdl -fetch -manga shingeki-no-kyojin

it will restart from the last downloaded chapter. Nice, no?

See the history

Once you download a few mangas, you can check your history whith this simple command:

$ go run gomangareaderdl.go -list

Welcome on gomangareaderdl
--------------------------

version 0.5 (Hōō Genma Ken)
Loading settings from C:\Users\Francois/.gomangareader.json...
Successfully Opened settings.json
- Settings loaded.
  > Default output path is D:\Documents\mangas
  > Default provider is mangareader.net

- <List> command selected
+---------------------------------+--------------+-------------------+
|              NAME               | LAST CHAPTER |     PROVIDER      |
+---------------------------------+--------------+-------------------+
| btooom                          |          102 | mangareader.net   |
| > shingeki-no-kyojin            | <120>        | [mangareader.net] |
| onepunch-man                    |          162 | mangareader.net   |
| the-promised-neverland          |          146 | mangareader.net   |
+---------------------------------+--------------+-------------------+

If a new chapter is available, the manga will be display with a '>' before his name. So you can easily see what are the new mangas you need to download!

Rewrite your history

But maybe your last downloaded chapter was corrupted and you want to download it again, but from another provider?

No problems. Just use a command like this:

$ gomangareaderdl -update -manga btooom -provider mangapanda.com -next 98

And then your history will change, and you can now download your manga again.

Read a chapter of a previously downloaded manga

Once you donwload your manga, you can use a cbz reader like http://comicsplusplus.com to read it.

But maybe you don't want to download additional software? Well, good news for you because with the following command:

$ gomangareaderdl -view -manga the-promised-neverland -chapter 111

you can open a very simple GUI that allow you to read the chapter of your favorite manga.

Supported sites

Currently supported sites:

site	speed	note
mangareader.net	fast	fastest with mangapanda.com
mangapanda.com	fast	mangareader rehost
mangalife.us	not so fast	wide variety, best formatting for manhwa

How to build?

Simply use the following command:

$ goreleaser release --skip-publish

then you will have a dist directory containing the binaries.

please note that you need to have https://goreleaser.com/ installed in order to do that. :)