Comix scraping is dead (kinda)
Well as i feared comix has made scraping extremely difficult.
Before people complain about the mentioning of comix. I think website scraping is in line with piracy, so i wish to inform others about this.
On to the topic of this post.
Previously i documented the issue of every 3rd panel not showing up in the console. And the workaround at the time was to right click then save image as.
Well its now changed its now every 4th panel, so if using an image downloader extention. You will be missing pages 4,8,12,16,20...ect. The right click save image as no longer works.
I personally tried fmd2 but haven't had any luck with it pulling chapters. It accepts the link but no chapters show up.
This is honestly ridiculous for a piracy site to do. I realized that it adds strain to the overall system, but when 99% of your library is scraped content from other piracy sites it only hurts the site.
There's a few ways this could be fixed
- Allow chapters to be downloaded as a zipfile/cbz/folder. If my memory is correct comick and bato/mangapark allowed you to do just that. (Hell even animekai the sister site that got burned to a crisp had a download button)
- Remove the anti scraping measures. Considering all the other site issues why the hell is scraping your main concern. My main concern would be the cloudflare blocks, panels not loading, and the god awful ui
- Leave it as is and watch people leave the site because the things that made it great were changed over a month ago