# metafates/mangal

📖 The most advanced (yet simple) cli manga downloader in the entire universe! Lua scrapers, export formats, anilist integration, fancy TUI and more!

Repository: https://github.com/metafates/mangal
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/mangal
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: anime, cli, go, manga, manga-downloader, scraper, tui, manga-reader, golang, anilist, terminal, command-line, lua, comic-downloader, pdf, mangadex, linux, macos, windows, mangal
Archived: true
Last push: 2025-04-02T09:35:09+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 14, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1565, "days_push": 518, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1745, forks 97 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:30.644573+00:00)

## What it is
Mangal is a cross-platform CLI/TUI manga downloader written in Go, with built-in sources (Mangadex, Manganelo, Manganato, Mangapill), extensible Lua scrapers, and export to PDF, CBZ, ZIP, or plain images. It includes an interactive TUI, reading history, caching, scriptable inline mode, and Anilist integration for metadata and progress sync.

## Use cases
- download manga chapters from the command line
- convert manga chapters to pdf or cbz
- add a custom manga source with a lua scraper
- read manga in the terminal with a tui
- sync manga reading progress with anilist
- script bulk manga downloads
- search and download manga from mangadex

## When to choose
- you want a fast, dependency-free CLI manga downloader with multiple export formats
- you need custom sources via Lua scrapers
- you want Anilist integration and reading history

## When to avoid
- you need actively maintained software - the project was discontinued in April 2025 and the author recommends against using it as-is
- you need a GUI application
- you need sources not covered by built-ins or existing community scrapers

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: abandoned
- function: web-scraping, cli, terminal-ui, pdf, image-processing, caching
- domain: media, developer-tools, entertainment
- platform: windows, cli, cross-platform, go
- tags: manga-downloader, tui, lua-scrapers, anilist, cbz, mangadex, comic-reader, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- metafates/mangal (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:30.644573+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:29:14.905311+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/metafates/mangal (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:30.644573+00:00, sha 2e740ddf233c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.