mansuf
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3 months ago The easiest solution would be to change the default --volume-cover-language to Japanese, as most scanlations on MangaDex are of Japanese manga, however this would mean altering the default behaviour of the option which might change the expected behaviour of any scripts people have already written.
Yes, this will totally change behaviour for many scripts and a lot of people will get angry because of this.
Alternatively, if no volume covers are found in the --language specified, then instead of immediately falling back to the series cover, mangadex-dl should first check if there are covers in other languages in a specific order of priority, for example Japanese, Korean, Chinese Simplified.
I didn't think that far, but thanks for the suggestion, i will fix the default behaviour on volume covers.
The priorities will be:
--volume-cover-languageor--language- Volume cover locale from manga original language
- Volume cover from any languages that exists
If there is no volume cover from above, then it will proceed to fall back to manga cover.
The idea
MangaDex only hosts scanlations, meaning many works have no official releases in the language people choose to read in. This means no volume covers for those languages. Most works on MangaDex only have volume covers in
JapaneseorKorean. This means that without specifying--volume-cover-language, it is rare for volume covers to be found if you are downloading inEnglish, for example, and mangadex-dl falls back to using the main series cover for every volume.The easiest solution would be to change the default
--volume-cover-languagetoJapanese, as most scanlations on MangaDex are of Japanese manga, however this would mean altering the default behaviour of the option which might change the expected behaviour of any scripts people have already written.Alternatively, if no volume covers are found in the
--languagespecified, then instead of immediately falling back to the series cover, mangadex-dl should first check if there are covers in other languages in a specific order of priority, for exampleJapanese, Korean, Chinese Simplified.It would be even better if mangadex-dl could instead fall back to attempting to download volume covers in the original language of the manga. For example if downloading a series with
Japaneseas the original language with the option--language "English"but the series has noEnglishvolume covers, mangadex-dl would attempt to downloadJapanesevolume covers next.Why this feature should be added to the app ?
This will ensure the correct volume covers are successfully embedded in volumes more often without having to specify a single
--volume-cover-language.