Help

The following information will help you get started with HDoujin Downloader. It’s far from complete, so feel free to ask a question if you some help.

You can find a list of some frequently asked questions here.

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  1. Anonymous

    Why did it convert each chapter into multiple PDF files instead of converting the entire manga into a single PDF file when I clicked on “convert to PDF”?

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  2. kazlehoff

    I cant get the updated program to work to download the additional apps. I’ve tried from multiple locations, including the desktop, a secondary drive, and even an external hard drive. no dice.

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    1. DoujinDownloader Post author

      It’s not your fault, the issue is with the updater (which is used to download the companion apps). I’ll get it fixed, but in the meantime, you can download them manually using the workaround described here!

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  3. The Dude

    Noticed that HentaiEra is not one of the supported sites? I mean, I cannot put in my login info for it. But it does let you download from it. Only it only downloaded the jpegs, ignoring the gifs and png. any chance for an update to resolve this?

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    1. DoujinDownloader Post author

      You’re right! It wasn’t handling other file types correctly. This has now been fixed, and the site should be working as expected the next time you restart HDoujin Downloader!

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  4. GeneralQ

    Can you please look into why downloading multiple files will cause the file to download fine but somehow mix two different files into one download. Sometimes it downloads two files and switches the names of the files. I also noticed it fails a lot of files.
    I have tried using the different beta versions from HDoujin Downloader 2023.5.6.0-rc.6 – rc.10
    im using those because of nhentai and the cloudflare checker issue.

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    1. DoujinDownloader Post author

      You’re not the first person to mention this (#211), although the last person told me that it was resolved. Apparently it’s not, and it seems to specifically occur with nhentai. I’m not totally sure what’s causing it; it might be related to some combination of settings.

      Would you be willing to send me your configuration files? There’s the “config.ini” file, and a “config.json” file in the “config” folder. If you could email me both of them so I can load them up and check for any possible settings causing this, it would be very helpful.

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  5. anonimus

    You could improve the download speed of a manga (customize it). example:
    – when i download from a website that has cloudflare. the download is slow.
    – if i download a “single” chapter of a manga that has 270 images per chapter, the download is slow.
    – When downloading, it would be nice if it could be customized using multiple simultaneous downloads of images for 1 manga chapter.
    – another bug is that lectortmo detects when you download from its site and blocks you. you could create an automatic “custom user agent” that you can also choose from mobile.

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    1. DoujinDownloader Post author

      Downloading from Cloudflare-enabled sites shouldn’t be too ridiculously slow because HDoujin Downloader caches the clearance cookies, but if that’s not working for some reason and Cloudflare has to be bypassed for every single request, it’ll definitely be slow. If you generate a log file and send it to me for one of the affected downloads (Tools > Log Viewer) I’ll check it out.

      You’re right that multithreaded downloads could be a lot faster. I’ve opened an issue to track this feature request here.

      For lectortmo, have you experimented with rate-limiting? If you go to Tools > Preferences/General settings from the menu at the top of the program window, and then go to “Timing & delays”, you can specify some rate limits there. That might help with getting blocked. If you find a rate limit that solves the issue I can integrate it as a default setting. I’ll investigate on my end, too.

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