tankobon is a manga downloader powered by web scraping.

Downloading manga from supported sources is as easy as pie:

$ tankobon add https://mangadex.org/title/a96676e5-8ae2-425e-b549-7f15dd34a6d8
Sucessfully added 'https://mangadex.org/title/b49fd121-19bf-4344-a8e1-d1be7ca04e08/sekai-saikyou-no-assassin-isekai-kizoku-ni-tensei-suru'! It's shorthash is <ffd84019>.

$ tankobon download ffd84019

# optionally, pack it into a PDF for e-readers.
$ tankobon pdfify -o manga.pdf

Features

• Add manga from a variety of sources, and periodically refresh them to get newer chapters
• Download chapters pages quickly and pack them into a PDF for portability
• Flexible configuration for tankobon’s behavior and sources
• multilingual support (only supported by mangadex source right now)

Quickstart

Install with pip install tankobon. tankobon can be used in one of three ways:

• cli (using the tankobon command)
• gui (requires the gui extra, install with pip install tankobon[gui])
• programmatically (check out the documentation for more info)

tankobon add <url>  # add a new manga
tankobon download <shothash>  # download a manga
tankobon list  # list all manga along with their shorthashes and urls
tankobon refresh <shorthash>  # refresh a manga (adds new chapters)
tankobon remove <shorthash>  # remove a manga

tankobon uses a unique shorthash to identify each manga, derived from it’s url.

Sources

tankobon currently supports the following websites:

• mangakakalot.com
• mangadex.org

Feel free to contribute a PR or open a feature request issue to add more sources.

Multilingual Support

You can set your preferred language to download MangaDex chapters for. First check the languages the manga supports:

$ tankobon info <shorthash> | grep languages -A10
...
languages: čeština, český jazyk (cs)
           English (en)
           Italiano (it)
           Русский (ru)
           Español (es)
           Português (pt)
           Bahasa Indonesia (id)
           język polski, polszczyzna (pl)
           Nederlands, Vlaams (nl)
           français, langue française (fr)

Next, set the language:

$ tankobon config lang <code>

where code is the two-letter ISO 639-1 id (i.e fr for français) beside the language’s native name.

As for the GUI, in the menu bar, click File -> Settings and change the language using the drop-down menu. Once the settings are closed, the manga currently being displayed will be reloaded to show the selected language.