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://bato.to
• https://comicfury.com
• https://*.thecomicseries.com
• https://natomanga.com
• https://webtoons.com
• https://mangadex.org
• https://readcomiconline.li
• https://www.kuaikanmanhua.com

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")