Download all chapters of Taishou Otome Otogibanashi to cbz from Sea Otter Scans for archival

taishooo.py

import os, sys, zipfile, re, requests, json, tempfile, time
from pprint import pprint

class Chapter:
	url = None
	title = None
	def __init__(self, tup): self.url, self.title = tup


def getImageListForChapterWithUrl(url):
	#var pages = 
	x = requests.get(url)
	r = re.search(r'var pages = (\[.*\]);', x.text)
	if not r:
		print "Couldn't retrieve image list from page"
		return None
	try:
		pages = json.loads(r.group(1))
	except:
		print "Couldn't parse image list JSON"
		return None

	return [x["url"] for x in pages]


def getChapterListFromBaseUrl(url):
	#<a href="https://reader.seaotterscans.com/read/taishau_wotome_otogibanashi/en/0/2/" title="Chapter 2: Memory of Spring on a Winter Night ">
	x = requests.get(url)
	# Using regex to parse html. Zalgo is Tony the Pony he COMES
	r = re.findall(r'<a href="(http[^"]+\/read\/[^"]+)" title="([^"]+)"', x.text)
	if not r:
		print "Couldn't retrieve chapter list from page"
		return None
	return [Chapter(x) for x in r]

def downloadImageListToZip(title, images):
	tempdir = tempfile.mkdtemp("taishoo")
	success = True
	zipname = None
	try:
		zipname = re.sub(r'[^\d\w\.\-\_]', ' ', title)+".cbz"
		zipname = re.sub(r'[\s]+', ' ', zipname)
		zipname = re.sub(r'[\s]+\.cbz$', '.cbz', zipname)
		if os.path.exists(zipname):
			print "File already exists"
			return False
		with zipfile.ZipFile(zipname, 'w') as zipobj:
			i = 0
			for imageurl in images:
				i += 1
				filepath = None
				try:
					root, ext = os.path.splitext(imageurl)
					filepath = os.path.join(tempdir,str(i).zfill(3)+ext)
					r = requests.get(imageurl, allow_redirects=True)
					open(filepath, 'wb').write(r.content)
					zipobj.write(filepath)
					os.remove(filepath)
					print "Downloaded image", i
				except KeyboardInterrupt:
					if filepath:
						try: os.remove(filepath)
						except: pass
					raise
				except:
					if filepath:
						try: os.remove(filepath)
						except: pass
					print "Error getting image", i
					success = False
				time.sleep(2)
	except KeyboardInterrupt:
		if zipname:
			try: os.remove(zipname)
			except: pass
		raise
	except:
		if zipname:
			try: os.remove(zipname)
			except: pass
		try: os.rmdir(tempdir)
		except: pass
		print "An error ocurred"
		success = False
	finally:
		try: os.rmdir(tempdir)
		except: pass

	return success


def main():

	try:
		print "Retrieving chapter list..."
		chapters = getChapterListFromBaseUrl("https://reader.seaotterscans.com/series/taishau_wotome_otogibanashi/")
		print "Found", len(chapters), "chapters."

		errors = False

		for chapter in chapters:
			print
			print "Processing chapter:", chapter.title
			images = getImageListForChapterWithUrl(chapter.url)
			print "Found", len(images), "images."
			res = downloadImageListToZip(chapter.title, images)
			if res:
				print "Chapter downloaded successfully"
			else:
				print "Chapter downloaded with errors, or not downloaded"
				errors = True

		print
		print
		if errors:
			print "Finished with errors"
		else:
			print "Finished successfully!"

	except KeyboardInterrupt:
		pass


if __name__ == '__main__':
	main()

Hi! Thanks a lot for this script! :) Alas, it fails for me. It hangs for a while (like a minute) on the "Retrieving chapter list" step and then fails with a "certificate verify failed" error message from the Python library. The Sea Otter website is accessible for me in a browser, though. Do you have any idea whether there is a way around this?

I don't really know, but you could try to add the verify = False parameter to the requests calls, according to Stack Overflow.