⚠️ Under construction. ⚠️ A Ruby library and CLI tool for managing comic books archives.

extract — to open a .cb* file.

archive — to create a .cb* file (default: .cbz).

Currently supported formats for archive and extract:

• CB7 — 7zip
• CBT — Tar
• CBZ — Zip

Currently supported formats for extract only:

• CBR — RAR is proprietary without an open source implementation license. Extracting support is provided using vendored unar binaries because a large number of comic books are archived in .cbr/.rar format. No support for creating .cbr files will ever be added until RAR is open source (or reverse engineered).

Planned formats for extract only:

• CBA — ACE is both proprietary and very old/outdated/unsupported. ACE extracting support is provided for historical posterity and completeness.

Install the gem and add to the application's Gemfile by executing:

bundle add comicbook

If bundler is not being used to manage dependencies, install the gem by executing:

gem install comicbook

# Extract a comic book archive
comicbook extract path/to/archive.cbz

# Extract to a specific destination
comicbook extract path/to/archive.cbz --to path/to/output

# Extract only image files (exclude metadata like ComicInfo.xml)
comicbook extract path/to/archive.cbz --images-only

# Create a comic book archive from a folder
comicbook archive path/to/folder

# Create archive at a specific destination
comicbook archive path/to/folder --to path/to/output.cbz

# Show help
comicbook --help

# Extract a comic book archive (extracts all files by default)
ComicBook.extract 'path/to/archive.cbz'

# Extract to a specific destination
ComicBook.extract 'path/to/archive.cbz', to: 'path/to/output'

# Extract only image files (exclude metadata like ComicInfo.xml)
ComicBook.extract 'path/to/archive.cbz', images_only: true

# Create a comic book archive from a folder (creates .cbz by default)
ComicBook.new('path/to/folder').archive

# Create archive at a specific destination
ComicBook.new('path/to/folder').archive to: 'path/to/output.cbz'

# Get pages from an archive
comic = ComicBook.new 'path/to/archive.cbz'
comic.pages  # => [#<ComicBook::Page>, ...]

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/veganstraightedge/comicbook. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the code of conduct.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Everyone interacting in the Comicbook project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.