MangaDownloader [MD]

[nannix]

Update 02/01/2010

Hello my dear manga friends,

i'm developing a java application right now to get an easy and uncomplicated access to all the wonderful story's here at onemanga.com.

You can see which manga are avaible and download them to a folder of your choice, each chapter packed in a zip ready to read in an image viewer of your choice.

So far i finished most of the program and i would like to have some helpers who test the program and report about the bugs here (I only have a mac atm).

If you find some bug / unexpected behavior or don't know how to use the program please tell me about it and i will see that i fix it.

Please pay attention to the fact that this is an Beta.

Preview:


Links:

Windows
Win - 32bit
Win - 64bit

Mac
Mac - 32bit
Mac - 64bit

Linux
Linux - 32bit

Note:

On many systems with java installed you can just double-click on the MangaDownloader.jar to start it.
If not you should use your console to start it:
->open your console ->navigate to the folder where the .jar is
e.g.

cd Downloads\MangaDownloader-win32bit\

->type:

java -jar MangaDownloader.jar

This should do it for now.


Thanks:
Dear OM-Staff, i'm really grateful that you do such a wonderful job on running this site. Without you there wouldn't be this program and personally i think a lot less manga fans out there.

To put it simple: THANKS :eban:


Known problems:

Resolved
P: I click on "Download chapter(s)" but nothing happens?
E: The program is already working, just watch your download folder. On my todo-list is a visible presentation of the download process.

Resolved
P: There is a big empty space in the right bottom corner?
E: Look 2 lines up, this space is reserved for the progress representation

Resolved
P: I don't see any files in my download folder!
E: Most likely you didn't saved your changes in the preference window, just go to "About"->"Preferences" and change the setting one more time . However, if this is not the case please write in this thread about it, i will see to it.

Working on it
P: The language setting isn't working!
E: I'm currently working on this feature. Meanwhile i want to collect some bug reports from you about everything else that might happen, thats the reason why it's not working right now.

[kumorinohito]

Hey, I checked out your app. It didn't work on my Windows 7 x64 due to the swt.jar. I tried it on a 32-bit Windows XP and on a friend's mac... it worked fine and it looks nice. I suggest you make the source available (it is kind of hard to just trust executables put online, I decompiled it myself before I trusted running it) and I'd like to see a time delay put between downloads, just to be nice to the one manga servers. But your program is looking and working quite nice so far.

I made my own one manga downloader a while ago, which you can check out at http://onemangadownloader.relic19.net. If you'd like to test it, I'd appreciate your feedback. It's definitely not as pretty as yours, but it does what I wanted.

[ptsome110]

thanks for the post, i will check out the program after i get home

[nannix]

Just posted an update, it's a complete rewrite of the old version. Please try it and state your opinion here ^^

@kumorinohito
thanks i totally forgot the win 64 part ^^

[farplanedragon]

Been trying and out and it's working pretty good. A few comments and suggestions for you.

- When downloading, it doesn't show the names of what I'm downloading, it does create and name folders correctly. Ex.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...uragod/mdl.jpg

See how they all say "Name Not Available" this was for every chapter of the 2 I tried so far.

- The "Drag the chapters you want to the right..." Text above the chapter listings made no sense, especially because it doesn't seem like there's anywhere to drag them to.

- Whenever I close and restart the program, the "Create a folder for each series" option in the settings menu is always reset to "No" every other option stays how I saved them.

- It would be nice if completed downloaded automatically removed themselves from the download list, or if there was a small "X" button on each to remove them.

- Speaking of the list, looking again at the screenshot.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...uragod/mdl.jpg

Every download stops on the "Credits" page. The "Credits" pages are completely downloaded, that's just where the progress stops. It would be nice if it progressed to some kind of "Done" status, and was removable like I said above.

- It would nice to have a way to toggle between viewing the chapter lists and the downloading list. Right now, if I start some downloads, and then choose a manga, there doesn't seem to be any way to go back and look at the download list unless I download something again.

That's what I can think of off the top of my head. All in all, the program seems to work great and I hope you expand it, maybe in time allow it to work with other sites like MangaFox.

[nannix]

hi,

farplanedragon do you have maybe in mind on which chapters/manga he said "Name not avaible"? that would be very much appreciated ;-)

for the other things, i'm currently working out the bugs, so thanks for your report ^^

[farplanedragon]

The 2 I've download so far were the first 10 chapters of,

- Rosario+Vampire
- Hikaru No Go

[ProGoddess]

Nice work there!

[Teera]

Quick question, doesn't this put unneeded stress onto the servers? since its made to look at manga's one page at time, and not a download server :?

[nannix]

@farplanedragon thank you very much for the info ^^

@ProGoddess thx ;-)

@Teera in fact it puts less stress on the server, because it only download the first page of a chapter to get all necessary download info and then uses for the rest the real download servers. But since i doesn't know of an official listening of all manga with their pages i have to go the way around with the normal html pages ^^.

In summary: to download one manga chapter it grabs 3 pages (manga dir, manga info, first chapter page) and then downloads directly from the download server

PS: New version is coming this weekend.