📖 Manga-tui 🖥️
Terminal manga reader and downloader
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2b693bd3-ec30-4d6e-bcc4-6cf457a860b1
## Table of contents
- [Features](#features)
- [Installation](#installation)
- [Image rendering](#image-rendering)
- [Usage](#usage)
- [Configuration](#configuration)
- [Motivation](#motivation)
- [Credits](#credits)
## Features
- Advanced search (with filters)
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c1e21aa1-8a51-4c47-baea-9f56dcd0d6a4
- Read manga in your terminal (Wezterm, iTerm2, or Kitty, any terminal that has support for graphics protocol)
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/70f321ff-13d1-4c4b-9c37-604271456ab2
- Reading history is stored locally (with no login required)
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/47e88e89-f73c-4575-9645-2abb80ca7d63
- Download manga (available formats: cbz, epub and raw images)
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ba785668-7cf1-4367-93f9-6e6e1f72c12c
- Download all chapters of a manga (available formats: cbz, epub and raw images)
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/26ad493f-633c-41fc-9d09-49b316118923
## Installation
### Using cargo
```shell
cargo install manga-tui --locked
```
### AUR
You can install `manga-tui` from the [AUR](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/manga-tui) with using an [AUR helper](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_helpers).
```shell
paru -S manga-tui
```
### Nix
If you have the [Nix package manager](https://nixos.org/), this repo provides a flake that builds the latest git version from source.
Simply run the following:
```sh
nix run 'github:josueBarretogit/manga-tui'
```
Or, to install persistently:
```sh
nix profile install 'github:josueBarretogit/manga-tui'
```
## Binary release
Download a binary from the [releases page](https://github.com/josueBarretogit/manga-tui/releases/latest)
## Image rendering
Use a terminal that can render images such as [Wezterm](https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/index.html) (Personally I recommend using this one It's the one used in the videos), [iTerm2](https://iterm2.com/) or [Kitty](https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/)
For more information see: [image-support](https://github.com/benjajaja/ratatui-image?tab=readme-ov-file#compatibility-matrix)
> [!WARNING]
> On windows image display is very buggy, see [this issue](https://github.com/josueBarretogit/manga-tui/issues/26) for more information
No images will be displayed if the terminal does not have image support (but `manga-tui` will still work as a manga downloader)
## Usage
After installation just run the binary
```shell
manga-tui
```
## Configuration
Manga downloads and reading history is stored in the `manga-tui` directory, to know where it is run:
```shell
manga-tui --data-dir
# or
manga-tui -d
```
On linux it will output something like: `~/.local/share/manga-tui`
On the `manga-tui` directory there will be 4 directories
- `history`, which contains a sqlite database to store reading history
- `config`, which contains a TOML file where you can define download format and image quality
- `mangaDownloads`, where manga will be downloaded
- `errorLogs`, for storing posible errors / bugs
If you want to change the location of this directory you can set the environment variable `MANGA_TUI_DATA_DIR` to some path pointing to a directory, like:
```shell
export MANGA_TUI_DATA_DIR="/home/user/Desktop/mangas"
```
By default `manga-tui` will search mangas in english, you can change the language by running:
```shell
# `es` corresponds to the Iso code for spanish
manga-tui lang --set 'es'
```
Check the available languages and their Iso codes by running:
```shell
manga-tui lang --print
```
## Motivation
I wanted to make a "How linux user does ..." but for manga, [here is the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0FsGRqEc1c) also this is a great excuse to start reading manga again
## Credits
Many thanks to Mangadex for providing the free API please consider supporting them ❤️
Many thanks to the [Ratatui organization](https://github.com/ratatui-org) for making such a good library for making TUI's in rust 🐭
Many thanks to the developer of the [Ratatui-image crate](https://crates.io/crates/ratatui-image) for providing a widget that renders images in the terminal 🖼️
Consider giving a star to this project ⭐
