A Perl script to download mangas from popular manga websites
- MangaHere (english)
- TuMangaOnline (spanish)
- LerManga (portuguese)
You need a Perl interpreter installed in your computer to run this script. If you're using a UNIX-like operating system like Linux or Mac, you probably already have it by default. If you're on Windows, I recommend Strawberry Perl.
MangaRipper requires the WWW::Mechanize module to work. If you don't have it, you can install it through CPAN. Once you already installed a Perl interpreter just open your Terminal and type:
sudo cpan install WWW::Mechanize
Or if you're in Windows, just open the Command Prompt and type:
cpan install WWW::Mechanize
That's it. Now you only have to run MangaRipper.pl once you're set things up.
The only file you have to worry about is manga_list.txt. If you downloaded MangaRipper as clone from Github instead of one of the releases, the file name is manga_list.txt.sample. Just rename it to manga_list.txt and you're done.
In this file you'll paste the URLs to the manga series you wish to download. You may as well inform the chapters you wish to download. Basically an entry goes like this:
(MANGA_URL, START_CHAPTER, END_CHAPTER)
MANGA_URL is the link to the page where all the links to the chapters of the manga are listed. For example, in MangaHere it goes like http://www.mangahere.co/manga/<manga name>/ while TuMangaOnline is http://www.tumangaonline.com/listado-mangas/manga/<manga id>/<manga name>.
MANGA_URR and END_CHAPTER are optional, you can leave it blank (but you must not forget the comma). MangaRipper will try to download the chapters from the series starting from START_CHAPTER until END_CHAPTER. These values default to the first and last available chapters respectively in case you don't fill anything.
Once you run MangaRipper.pl, it will check this file and download all the entries you informed and save them to the subfolder folder downloads (don't worry, it will create one by itself if it doesn't exist). Inside the downloads folder each series will be divided in folders (each with the series names) and inside those folders are the folders for each chapter of the series.
If any error happens, say, it wasn't able to download a page, it will get logged in a file called log.txt. So before reading, you should check this file first (it automatically appears in the root folder if anything goes wrong).