Tapastic-Comic-Downloader

This is a downloader to download and update whole comics from https://tapas.io/. (Not official!)

Attention:

This script could be illegal in certain cases, please first read the terms of service on https://tapas.io/ !

Usage:

1. Installing Python3 and needed modules:

• Can be installed on Debian and Ubuntu and other Linux distribution that use 'apt' like this:

# apt install python3 python3-dev python3-pip libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev zlib1g-dev
# pip3 install -r requirenments.txt
# pip3 install -r requirenments_novels.txt  # If novels are expected to be downloaded

• On Arch/Antergos:

# pacman -S python python-pip
# pip install -r requirenments.txt
# pip install -r requirenments_novels.txt  # If novels are expected to be downloaded

• On Wndows
  • Install python from python.org
  • Open cmd
  • Navigate to repo location (needs to be downloaded)
  • Install needed modules:

    pip install -r requirenments.txt
    pip install -r requirenments_novels.txt  # If novels are expected to be downloaded
    

  • Execute the script

    python tapas-dl.py [-h/--help] [-f/--force] [-v/--verbose] URL/name [URL/name ...]
    

    More exact usage in the next section
  • (thx @ ONSKJ for help with Windows)

• If someone got it running on another OS, please let me know!

2. Get input link

• Go to the comic you want to download (any page)
• Rightclick on the comic name in the upper left corner and select "Copy linkaddress" (Or similar) or just use the name behind series in the url.
• Examples: https://tapas.io/series/Erma, RavenWolf, ...

3. Start the download

• Usage of tapas-dl.py:

$ tapas-dl.py [-h/--help] [-f/--force] [-v/--verbose] URL/name [URL/name ...]

• The script will create an folder with the name and urlName (name [urlName]) of the comic in the current shell location (like git) and download all images of the comic into it.
• If the script finds an folder with the name of the comic, it will only update, this can be disabled with -f/--force.
• To get the verbose output use -v/--verbose.

Extra:

If someone wants to quickly understand the code, here is the pseudo code of the pure download part:

1. Get comic start page (Example: https://tapas.io/series/Erma)
2. Extract all pageIds of the comic from the _data JS object from the start page
3. Get image urls by extracting them out of https://tapas.io/episode/view/<pageId> (Example: https://tapas.io/episode/view/255222)
4. Download the images