Comic/manga/webtoon downloader and CBZ/EPUB/MOBI/PDF converter
Project description
mandown
Mandown is a comic downloader and a CBZ, EPUB, MOBI, and/or PDF converter. It also supports image post-processing to make them more readable on certain devices similarly to Kindle Comic Converter.
Features
- Download comics from supported sites
- Supports downloading a range of chapters
- Supports multithreaded downloading
- Process downloaded images
- Rotate or split double-page spreads
- Trim borders
- Resize images
- Convert downloaded comics to CBZ, EPUB, MOBI, or PDF
- Convert any other CBZ, EPUB, MOBI, or PDF comic to CBZ, EPUB, MOBI, or PDF
- A library to easily do all of this from other Python scripts
Usage
Run mandown --help
or see the docs for more information and examples.
mandown get <URL>
To convert the downloaded contents to CBZ/EPUB/MOBI/PDF, append the --convert
option. To apply image processing to the downloaded images, append the --process
option.
mandown get <URL> --convert epub --process rotate_double_pages
To download only a certain range of chapters, append the --start
and/or --end
options.
Note:
--start
and--end
are inclusive, i.e., using--start 2 --end 3
will download chapters 2 and 3.
To convert an existing folder or comic file without downloading anything (like a stripped-down version of https://github.com/ciromattia/kcc), use the convert
command.
mandown convert <FORMAT> <PATH_TO_COMIC>
To process an existing folder without downloading anything, use the process
command.
mandown process <PROCESS_OPERATIONS> <PATH_TO_FOLDER>
Where PROCESS_OPERATIONS
is an option found from running mandown process --help
.
Installation
Install the package from PyPI:
pip3 install mandown
Install the optional large dependencies for some features of Mandown:
# graphical interface (GUI)
pip3 install PySide6
Arch Linux users may also install the package from the AUR:
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/mandown-git.git
makepkg -si
Or, to build from source:
Mandown uses poetry for dependency management.
git clone https://github.com/potatoeggy/mandown.git
poetry install
poetry build
pip3 install dist/mandown*.whl
Supported sites
To request a new site, please file a new issue.
- https://mangasee123.com
- https://manganato.com
- https://webtoons.com
- https://mangadex.org
- https://mangakakalot.com
- https://manhuaes.com
- https://readcomiconline.li
Basic library usage
See the docs for more information and examples.
To just download the images:
import mandown
mandown.download("https://comic-site.com/the-best-comic")
To download and convert to EPUB:
import mandown
comic = mandown.query("https://comic-site.com/the-best-comic")
mandown.download(comic)
mandown.convert(comic, title=comic.metadata.title, to="epub")
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