This Project was created since Mangadex does not have a Mobile APP nor does it have email-based notifications to allow users to track Manga Releases. For me as i was travelling for work quite a bit plus having to manually check reddit subs and also get exposed to spoilers in the process was a literal pia so i decided to create this GitHub Action to Track a certain manga that did not have a offical English Translation at that point of time since scanlation teams used to translate the managa panel by panel painstakingly re-drawing the text boxes etc(offical English Translation uploads are not allowed by mangadex) and upload the scanlation to MangaDex. This action served quite well until we started getting a official English Translation release via the publishers K manga wesbite/app.
I thought why not open source this code as this might be useful to everyone else out there to track mangas that still do not have official English/Other translations as thousands of Mangas with international following do not have a official English/Other Translation on official release websites thus are scanlated by groups and uploaded to Mangadex.
- Fork this Repo to your account.
- Add the Manga-id from the Mangadex api for your specific manga in the config.cfg
- Fetch the Manga-id using the manga title using the mangadex api using your favourite api request tool(example postman etc) https://github.com/EMACC99/mangadex/blob/main/README.md#searching-manga
- Add the Manga-id and the last released chapter in the records.json file's respective fields
- Create your secrets in Github's Settings under the Action section as shown in the screenshot below ensure your secret name is exactly in the same format
- Run the action and keep a eye on the bill,fine tune to your liking.
https://docs.github.com/en/actions/quickstart
Some code has been commented out if uncommented you will receive the manga chapter in a pdf format directly on your email id,has been commented out because when creating a pdf the manga image quality is lowered and since Mangas are a visual medium image quality being lowered destroys the readability.