I made a manga server

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Osayidan wrote on 2014-10-03 21:43

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I often have to go to different sources to read all my manga, and I also don't trust those sources to be online forever, so I made my own manga reading server.

What it does is scan a specified folder, and in that folder is organized each title, and in those folders each chapter, followed by each page for that chapter. This just creates a navigation/viewing interface for the folder.

There's a lot of manga reading apps out there, but they're all applications you either install or have to otherwise run. I wanted it in a browser.

To go along with this I use DomDom Soft's manga downloader app, which runs on my data server and neatly downloads/organizes the titles I tell it to into my manga folder. It can even run on a schedule to download weekly/monthly releases.

As long as the naming and folder structure is respected there's nothing to do, 100% automated with the manga downloader.

The only cosmetic thing I need to do manually is create custom cover images to display for each manga, since I'm very picky about that and want to go choose them myself on google images.

I'm not releasing this yet, since it's version 1.0 and I haven't started using it for real yet. Once I've used it for a while and corrected any bugs that might come up I'll release it, but you will need to be able to host your own apache + php server, preferably on a windows system so it can also run a manga downloader.
Elleanior wrote on 2014-10-04 03:01

That's fairly neat, Osay!

Will it be open to Doujins?

:llama_nomnom:
Osayidan wrote on 2014-10-04 04:21

any images that are organized in a proper structure, like so:

[CODE]
MangaServerFolder
|
| -> files needed by manga server app
| -> Mangas folder
| ----> Series A
|----------> 001
|-------------> 001.jpg
|-------------> 002.jpg
|-------------> 003.jpg
|----------> 002
|-------------> 001.jpg
|-------------> 002.jpg
|-------------> 003.jpg
| ----> Series B
|----------> 001
|-------------> 001.jpg
|-------------> 002.jpg
|-------------> 003.jpg
|----------> 002
|-------------> 001.jpg
|-------------> 002.jpg
|-------------> 003.jpg
[/CODE]

Doesn't even have to be manga, or even comics of any kind, though the design interface is meant for manga and the logic behind the naming structure is for manga.