Simple Manga Downloader Changelog¶

Version 1.6.2¶

Released on August 15, 2018

Fix: Fixed bug in smd.__init__.py file: show_copyright() isn’t in package smd.utils anymore.
New: Code re-factorized with annotations, for static typing checking with mypy.
New: smd.downloader.Downloader.get() separated in two new functions get_bytes() and get_str().
New: Classes Chapter and Manga now use attributes instead of __setitem__ and __getitem__ for accessing meta data.
New: Created smd.utils.MetaFolder class base for Chapter and Manga.
New: Removed variable smd.utlis.USER_AGENT and created function smd.utils.random_ua() instead.
New: Chapters folders are now named using numbers to avoid invalid folder names.
New: search() now returns a list of Manga and get_chapters() returns a list of Chapter
Fix: Fixed localization setup to fallback to the default if the language set in the configuration file is not supported.

Released on July 31, 2018

Fix: Fixed function smd.utils.select_chapters() to return a list of chapters in the right order instead of an unordered set.

Released on July 31, 2018

New: Now smd is smarter, it keeps meta-data about the mangas and remember download status, downloading only missing or incomplete chapters, also useful to download new chapters from ongoing mangas.
New: Added option --update (to get new chapters for ongoing mangas).
New: Added option --continue (to resume a canceled manga download).
New: Now smd have a multilingual interface, currently only English and Spanish languages are supported.
New: Added configuration file to configure language, folder where to find and save mangas, etc.
New: Added documentation to the project and integrated it with Read the Docs.
New: Updated tests module.

Released on July 18, 2018

New: Added new option -d or --directory to set the place where to save mangas (default: working directory).
Fix: If the manga title or chapter title are an invalid folder name, ask the user for a new name instead of crashing.
New: Removed --start and --stop options in favor of a more powerful --chapters option. Now use --chapters 10:20 instead of --start 10 --stop 20.
New: Log file now moved to [USER HOME]/smd/smd.log and log size limited.
New: Now exception traces are sent only to log file and small messages to console.
New: Added --verbose option to make the program print debug messages and error stack traces.
Fix: On ConnectionResetError retry only a fixed number of times.
New: Added new package to the project: tests for unit testing.

Changes to previous versions were not tracked.