tapas.io WebComic Downloader

Unofficial downloader for webcomics on https://Tapas.io/ written in PHP.

Features:

• automatic resume.
• filenames of saved images/objects contain the episodes name.
• compatible with episodes consisting of more then one image/object.
• doesn't stop at episodes marked as mature but saves URLs to them instead.

Saved images get filenames like this: <mainCounter>-<episode#> <episodeTitle>.<ext>

The original author of the ancestor of this script has written a Python alternative.

Prerequisites:

The only requirement is a compatible working php interpreter.

I'm using php-7.1.8-Win32-VC14-x64.zip.

Let me know if it works on other OSs.

Usage:

1. Get episode number to start from.

• Go to the comics page from where you want to start downloading (usually the first).
• Copy the integer from that pages URL.
• Examples: https://tapas.io/episode/255222 -> 255222

2. Start the download.

• Usage of tapas.io_downloader.php:

tapas.io_downloader.php -e <EP#> -p <path>

• Windows example (can be saved in a shortcut/.lnk too):

C:\php\php.exe tapas.io_downloader.php -e 255222 -p "D:\Web Comics\Erma"

• The script will create the folder(s) if necessary and store/save all images/objects of the comic in it.
• If the folder already exists, it will resume downloading with/after the last saved episode.

Missing features:

• download episodes marked as mature too.
• add optional argument to put a comic specific identifier at the beginning of all filenames.
• or generate that preamble from the comic name?
• give different return value depending on if any (and how many) images/objects were downloaded.