Overview

A small program that, when ran as cron, will download the latest chapters from Mangadex and notify you through pushover once they are downloaded. Written in Python3.7 and inspired by frozenpandaman's mangadex-dl. It should also work under Windows.

Usage

It currently takes no arguments, just simply run it from the command line or a cron.

Config

Here is an example config file, the syntax is yaml and the config has to be saved as config.yaml

downloadpath: "/mnt/manga/"
check_last_items: 1
 
 naming:
  volumes: True

pushover:
  user: <user token>
  token: <application token>
  enabled: True
  
mangas:
   - id: 31004
     name: ijiranaide-nagatoro-san-comic-anthology
     cover: true
     check_last: true
     group:
      - "/a/nonymous"
      
   - id: 16193
     name: charlotte
     cover: true
     check_last: True
     group:
       - "/r/CharlotteAnime"
       - "Kana the Good Librarian"
    

Explanation of the settings

Setting	Description	Required
downloadpath	the path to download all the pages to.	Yes
check_last_items	How many of the last chapsters to check for availability.	Yes
naming:volumes	Set to true to save chapters in a folder of the volume they belong to.	Yes
pushover:user	Your pushover user token.	Yes (when using pushover)
pushover:token	Your pushover application token.	Yes (when using pushover)
pushover:enabled	Set to true to enable pushover.	Yes
manga:id	The id of the manga on Mangadex	Yes
manga:name	The name of the manga, used as download path	Yes
manga:cover	Enable this to also download the cover image	No
manga:check_last	Set to true if you want to only check the x amount of last chapters, set to false if you want to download all available chapters	False
manga:group	A list of scanlation groups to download	Yes

Shortcomings

• Currently there is no way to set what language you want, it's hard-coded to be set to English
• You have to tell it what group to download from, otherwise it won't work. In the future I want it to being able to fall back to whatever group once a new chapter is out.
• It doesn't really handle exceptions well yet.
• It doesn't actually have any delay between downloading pages and chapters, now this hasn't given me any problems at all, you have been warned.