mdr

PC tool to replace the auto-update/download features of Tachiyomi extensions post v0.15.2. This serves as a tool to help collate content for PLEXing to self hosted content servers such as Kavita/Komga and is intended to be used with them.

Currently supports

• Operating Systems
  • Linux
  • Windows
• Sources
  • MangaDex
  • MangaHere (except those marked as 18+)
• Missing chapters checker uses MangaUpdates and is currently implemented for
  • MangaDex

Dependencies

• pip install selenium
  • Used to render JavaScript webpages
  • Used to navigate/parse HTML pages
  • Used to interact with JavaScript pages
• Gecko driver: Obtain the one for your architecture
  • https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases
• Firefox
  • Make sure this is installed and place wherever you wish

Usage

If you are using Windows make sure in constants.py the following are correctly set. Below is an example.

FIREFOX_BIN_PATH = "C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/firefox.exe"
GECKO_BIN_PATH = "./geckodriver.exe"

If you are using Linux make sure in constants.py the following are correctly set Below is an example.

GECKO_BIN_PATH = "/snap/bin/geckodriver"

This is currently a work in progress and can be buggy (specifically if MAX_THREADS is not 1 in main.py) due to webpage load times. APIs are not used when accessing MangaDex meaning that the page is loaded and parsed with Selenium instead. For examples of how to download a specific chapter/title, refer to test_handler_mangadex.py.

If you run into problems with timeouts causing exceptions please modify SLEEP_SEC in constant.py. This governs how long selenium waits before it decides to fail.

For trying to batch download run main.py. This requires a file (by default library_links.txt) located in the root directory. Feel free to change constants in main.py to modify behavior. It's format is like

https://mangadex.org/title/XXXX
https://mangadex.org/title/XXXX
https://mangadex.org/title/XXXX
https://mangadex.org/title/XXXX
https://mangahere.cc/manga/XXXX
https://mangahere.cc/manga/XXXX
https://mangahere.cc/manga/XXXX
https://mangahere.cc/manga/XXXX

Logging will be placed into the root folder this project is cloned to. By default, this is log.txt you can change this location in main.py.

Any missing chapters will be saved to a a file of root folder this project is cloned to. By default, this is missing.txt you can change this location in main.py.

If you have a .tachibk file, extract it and parse it with grab_urls.sh.

Files/Structure

• comic_info.py
  • Generates a ComicInfo.xml per chapter
• constants.py
  • Global constants used throuhout the project
• grab_urls.sh
  • Parses an unzipped tachibk file to extract certain source's links
    • Supported
      • MangaDex
      • MangaHere
• handler_mangadex.py
  • Handles MangaDex titles
• handler_mangahere.py
  • Handles MangaHere titles
• handler.py
  • General handler which all all other handlers inherit from
• main.py
  • Main wrapper
• test_handler_mangadex.py
  • Tests for handler_mangadex.py
• test_handler_mangahere.py
  • Tests for handler_mangahere.py
• title_metadata.py
  • Metadata for a title and its chapters used in the Handler
• utils.py
  • General utility functions
• webpage_utils.py
  • General scratch file

TODOs

• Add migration
• Remove timeouts for explicit waits?
  • MangaHere
• Add other sources
• More metadata
  • Status of publishing
  • Capture content type in MangaDex? (eg. Suggestive)
• Create a UI to handle everything with PySimpleGUI?
• Manual redownloading feature if a download fails