hdpc-dl

A downloader for HDPC.

Crawls a specified URL, writes all images and a JSON file to the working directory, or another directory if specified. If the directory does not already exist, its creation will be attempted.

Notice: The crawler was built specifically for HDPC and will not work for any other website. example.com (as shown below) would not work.

Usage

The application is very easy to use, it only takes a URL, and an optional destination path (defaults to the working directory).

Guide

1. cargo install hdpc-dl
2. hdpc-dc https://example.com/target_url -d /home/b42-sneak/Downloads/HDPC
3. A folder will be created: /home/b42-sneak/Downloads/HDPC/Name-of-the-target
4. In this folder ([...] Name-of-the-target) a JSON file will be created including all target metadata called hdpc-info.json
5. All images will be downloaded into the same directory, prefixed with an incrementing counter starting at 001-

The --help output

```none ╭─b42-sneak@b42-sneak-pc ~/src/target/release ╰─➤ hdpc-dl --help HDPC Downloader version 1.4.0 Copyright 2020 b42-sneak; All rights reserved. Licensed under the AGPL 3.0 https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html

HDPC downloader 1.4.0 b42-sneak Downloads comics from HDPC

USAGE: hdpc-dl [FLAGS] [OPTIONS]

FLAGS: -h, --help Prints help information -j, --json-only Only generate the JSON file -v Sets the level of verbosity: 1 for file names, 2 for percentage decimals -V, --version Prints version information

OPTIONS: -d, --destination Sets the download destination path [default: (the working directory)]

ARGS: Sets the URL of the comic to download ```

Examples

Download https://example.com/1:

• To the working directory: hdpc-dl https://example.com/1
• To /some/other/directory: hdpc-dl https://example.com/1 -d /some/other/directory

Only create (or overwrite) a JSON file https://example.com/1:

• In the working directory: hdpc-dl https://example.com/1 -j
• In /some/other/directory:
  • hdpc-dl https://example.com/1 -d /some/other/directory -j
  • hdpc-dl https://example.com/1 -jd /some/other/directory

The -v flag

Here are some examples:

Without any (hdpc-dl <URL>):

none 001/131 ( 1%) 002/131 ( 2%) 003/131 ( 2%) 004/131 ( 3%) 005/131 ( 4%) 006/131 ( 5%) 007/131 ( 5%) 008/131 ( 6%) 009/131 ( 7%) 010/131 ( 8%) 011/131 ( 8%) 012/131 ( 9%) 013/131 ( 10%) 014/131 ( 11%)

With one (hdpc-dl <URL> -v):

none Wrote file 001/131 ( 1%): 001-comic-name-1.jpg Wrote file 002/131 ( 2%): 002-comic-name-2.jpg Wrote file 003/131 ( 2%): 003-comic-name-3.jpg Wrote file 004/131 ( 3%): 004-comic-name-4.jpg Wrote file 005/131 ( 4%): 005-comic-name-5.jpg Wrote file 006/131 ( 5%): 006-comic-name-6.jpg Wrote file 007/131 ( 5%): 007-comic-name-7.jpg Wrote file 008/131 ( 6%): 008-comic-name-8.jpg Wrote file 009/131 ( 7%): 009-comic-name-9.jpg Wrote file 010/131 ( 8%): 010-comic-name-10.jpg Wrote file 011/131 ( 8%): 011-comic-name-11.jpg Wrote file 012/131 ( 9%): 012-comic-name-12.jpg Wrote file 013/131 ( 10%): 013-comic-name-13.jpg Wrote file 014/131 ( 11%): 014-comic-name-14.jpg

With two or more (hdpc-dl <URL> -vv or hdpc-dl <URL> -vvvvv):

none Wrote file 001/131 (0.763%): 001-comic-name-1.jpg Wrote file 002/131 (1.527%): 002-comic-name-2.jpg Wrote file 003/131 (2.290%): 003-comic-name-3.jpg Wrote file 004/131 (3.053%): 004-comic-name-4.jpg Wrote file 005/131 (3.817%): 005-comic-name-5.jpg Wrote file 006/131 (4.580%): 006-comic-name-6.jpg Wrote file 007/131 (5.344%): 007-comic-name-7.jpg Wrote file 008/131 (6.107%): 008-comic-name-8.jpg Wrote file 009/131 (6.870%): 009-comic-name-9.jpg Wrote file 010/131 (7.634%): 010-comic-name-10.jpg Wrote file 011/131 (8.397%): 011-comic-name-11.jpg Wrote file 012/131 (9.160%): 012-comic-name-12.jpg Wrote file 013/131 (9.924%): 013-comic-name-13.jpg Wrote file 014/131 (10.687%): 014-comic-name-14.jpg