In this tutorial, we will show you how to download manga using command lines. The program we will use for this task is Comic-dl. This tool allows us to download all pages of a specific chapter by running a simple command.
To download manga from different sites as a user, you only need the entry link and run a command. One of the advantages of the platform is its intelligent function: if an error occurs during the download process, the process restarts, but the utility skips the originally downloaded pages.
Getting started
The first thing you need to do to start downloading Japanese comics to your computer via command lines is to download the Comic-dl program. Once installation is complete, you will need to place the file “comic-dl” in the command prompt window. Then you just need the entry link.
comic-dl.exe -i mangaurl
Where it says “mangaurl”, you have to insert the URL of the entry, for example:
comic-dl.exe -i http://mangafox.me/........
At this point, the download process will start; it is slow but very effective.
The platform also allows you to download all chapters at the same time, but in our tests we received a server (response) error. So we recommend using per-chapter download.
Also, the environment does not have the option to configure an output location. The platform creates a new folder with the name of the chapter in the same location where the tool is run. In our tests, everything worked perfectly and we were able to download manga from the Web easily. And although it only supports three web platforms, we will find plenty of comics on them. If you only want to run the command and download manga, with this tutorial you can do it in a few steps.
Comic-dl is a free program that is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
