[Feature] Combine chapters into the corresponding volume

[Username9980]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. No.

Describe the solution you'd like Combine every chapter into the corresponding volume of the specific manga if the information is available in the specific connector.

[Sheepux]

I don't know how many connectors have %VOL% available as it's based on the title. Do you have any connector in mind ?

[Username9980]

I don't know how many connectors have %VOL% available as it's based on the title. Do you have any connector in mind ?

MangaDex

[MikeZeDev]

Too few websites gives the information for it to be worth. And wdym by combine exactly? Same folder download? It would be a mess when it comes to recognize downloaded content. We do not cache chapters lists at all i am afraid.

I think something like a post command would be fine providing we expose the volume number.

[Username9980]

Too few websites gives the information for it to be worth. And wdym by combine exactly? Same folder download? It would be a mess when it comes to recognize downloaded content. We do not cache chapters lists at all i am afraid.

I think something like a post command would be fine providing we expose the volume number.

By combine I mean, there should be an option similar to the mangadex-dl's cbz-volume command, this should go to every site that has %VOL% available, not just MangaDex.

Sorry for the late reply.

[ronny1982]

Since this is requested quite often, i'll give a more detailed explanation which can be used as reference (e.g. Discord link).

Combining multiple chapters into a single comic book archive is to complex to be achieved in a generic way for hundreds of websites due to various challenges:

Missing Information

Many websites only provide a list of chapters. There is no additional information about volumes or books, which is necessary to compile multiple chapters into a single comic book archive

Naming/Sorting

Since multiple chapters are combined, it is essential to ensure the images are named correctly to appear in the correct order. Shouldn't be a problem? Then you probably never saw Chapter 7½, Ch. 12.5, Second Chapter, ...

Download Detection

Lets assume a website only provides chapters and somehow HakuNeko uses some magic to combine multiple chapters into volumes. HakuNeko detects downloaded chapters by comparing the downloaded files with the list from the website. It is quite difficult to detect the already downloaded chapters when they are hidden within a combined comic book archive.

Incomplete Downloads

Lets assume a user downloaded Volume 4 which contains chapter 23-29 into a single combined comic book archive. Now chapter 30 is released which is also part of Volume 4. Quite a programming challenge to get this done correctly.

Settings

There are already enough options to confuse the users. Adding a feature to combine multiple chapters into a single comic book archive comes with a set of additional options bloating the settings even more.

Post Command

There is already a mechanism which allows each (experienced) user to combine multiple chapters into comic book archives by utilising the Post Command. Developing a script to do this is probably difficult, but still 100 times easier than implementing this feature in HakuNeko.