New version of pocket.shonenmagazine.com ripper

shonenripperjson.py

# Original script by drdaxxy
# https://gist.github.com/drdaxxy/1e43b3aee3e08a5898f61a45b96e4cb4

# Thanks to ToshiroScan for fixing after a shonen update broke this.
# And QPDEH for helping fix the black bars issue with some manga.
# This script has been tested to work with python 3.10

# To install required libraries: 
#
# pip install requests
# pip install Pillow
# pip install beautifulsoup4

import sys
import os
import requests
import errno
import json
from PIL import Image
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

login = False # Set this to True if you want to login
username = "your email here"
password = "your password"


loginheaders = {
    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:130.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/130.0',
    'origin': 'https://pocket.shonenmagazine.com',
    'x-requested-with': 'XMLHttpRequest'
}

loginurl = "https://pocket.shonenmagazine.com/user_account/login"

sess = requests.Session()

if login:

    logindata = {"email_address": username, "password": password, "return_location_path" : "/"}

    r = sess.post(loginurl, headers=loginheaders, data = logindata)

    if r.ok:

        print('LOGIN SUCCESS')
        print(sess.cookies)
    else:
        print('LOGIN FAILED')
        print(r.headers)
        print(r.status_code)
        print(r.reason)
        print(r.text)



if len(sys.argv) != 3:
    print("usage: shonenripperjson.py <url> <destination folder>")
    sys.exit(1)


destination = sys.argv[2]

if not os.path.exists(destination):
    try:
        os.makedirs(destination)
    except OSError as exc:
        if exc.errno != errno.EEXIST:
            raise

url = sys.argv[1]

headers = {
    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:130.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/130.0'}

# If soup method below doesn't work, try uncommenting these 2 lines

# if not url.endswith('.json'):
#     url = url + ".json"

print("Getting from url: "+url)
r = sess.get(url=url, headers=headers)

# And this
# data = r.json()

# and comment from here ========

soup = BeautifulSoup(r.content, 'html.parser')

script_tag = soup.find('script', id='episode-json')

if script_tag:
    json_data = script_tag['data-value']
    
    data = json.loads(json_data)
else:
    print("No <script> with ID 'episode-json' found.")
    sys.exit(1)

# to here ======================


def dlImage(url, outFilename, drm):
    r = sess.get(url, stream=True, headers=headers)

    if not r.ok:
        print(r)
        return

    content_type = r.headers.get('content-type')
    if content_type == "image/jpeg":
        outFilename = outFilename + ".jpg"
    elif content_type == "image/png":
        outFilename = outFilename + ".png"
    else:
        print("content type not recognized!")
        print(r)
        return

    with open(outFilename, 'wb') as file:
        for block in r.iter_content(1024):
            if not block:
                break
            file.write(block)

    if drm == True:
        source = Image.open(outFilename)
        dest = source.copy()
        
        def draw_subimage(sx, sy, sWidth, sHeight, dx, dy):
            rect = source.crop((sx, sy, sx+sWidth, sy+sHeight))
            dest.paste(rect, (dx, dy, dx+sWidth, dy+sHeight))

        DIVIDE_NUM = 4
        MULTIPLE = 8
        cell_width = (source.width // (DIVIDE_NUM * MULTIPLE)) * MULTIPLE
        cell_height = (source.height // (DIVIDE_NUM * MULTIPLE)) * MULTIPLE
        for e in range(0, DIVIDE_NUM * DIVIDE_NUM):
            t = e // DIVIDE_NUM * cell_height
            n = e % DIVIDE_NUM * cell_width
            r = e // DIVIDE_NUM
            i_ = e % DIVIDE_NUM
            u = i_ * DIVIDE_NUM + r
            s = u % DIVIDE_NUM * cell_width
            c = (u // DIVIDE_NUM) * cell_height
            draw_subimage(n, t, cell_width, cell_height, s, c)

        dest.save(outFilename)


if 'readableProduct' in data:
    readableProduct = data['readableProduct']
    nextReadableProductUri = None

    if 'nextReadableProductUri' in readableProduct:
        nextReadableProductUri = readableProduct['nextReadableProductUri']

    if 'pageStructure' in readableProduct:
        pageStructure = readableProduct['pageStructure']

        if pageStructure == None:
            print('Could not download pages. Most likely this volume is not public.')
            sys.exit(1)

        choJuGiga = pageStructure['choJuGiga'] if 'choJuGiga' in pageStructure else ''

        print('choJuGiga: ', choJuGiga)

        drm = choJuGiga != "usagi"

        pages = pageStructure['pages'] if 'pages' in pageStructure else []

        if len(pages) == 0:
            print("No pages found")
            sys.exit(1)

        pageIndex = 0

        for page in pages:
            if 'src' in page:
                src = page['src']
                print(src)
                pageIndex += 1
                outFile = os.path.join(destination, f"{pageIndex:04d}")
                dlImage(src, outFile, drm)

    else:
        print('could not find pageStructure from json response')
        sys.exit(1)

    if nextReadableProductUri != None:
        print("Next URI: ", nextReadableProductUri)
else:
    print('could not find readableProduct from json response')

They quite changed the site (calculating hash for request, new drm method, new json scheme, etc.). I wrote and tested working code on some free titles but it will fail on a paid one for sure due to api changes.

code

#Original script by drdaxxy
# https://gist.github.com/drdaxxy/1e43b3aee3e08a5898f61a45b96e4cb4

# Thanks to ToshiroScan for fixing after a shonen update broke this.
# And QPDEH for helping fix the black bars issue with some manga.
# This script has been tested to work with python 3.10

# To install required libraries: 
#
# pip install requests
# pip install Pillow

import sys
import os
import requests
import errno
import json
import hashlib
from PIL import Image

login = False # Set this to True if you want to login
username = "your email here"
password = "your password"


loginheaders = {
    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:130.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/130.0',
    'origin': 'https://pocket.shonenmagazine.com',
    'x-requested-with': 'XMLHttpRequest'
}

loginurl = "https://pocket.shonenmagazine.com/user_account/login"

sess = requests.Session()

if login:

    logindata = {"email_address": username, "password": password, "return_location_path" : "/"}

    r = sess.post(loginurl, headers=loginheaders, data = logindata)

    if r.ok:

        print('LOGIN SUCCESS')
        print(sess.cookies)
    else:
        print('LOGIN FAILED')
        print(r.headers)
        print(r.status_code)
        print(r.reason)
        print(r.text)



if len(sys.argv) != 3:
    print("usage: shonenripperjson.py <episode id> <destination folder>")
    sys.exit(1)


destination = sys.argv[2]

if not os.path.exists(destination):
    try:
        os.makedirs(destination)
    except OSError as exc:
        if exc.errno != errno.EEXIST:
            raise

episode_id = sys.argv[1]

def mangahash(episode_id):
    e = {"platform": "3", "episode_id": episode_id}
    t = sorted(list(e.keys()))
    def Ed(e, t): return dc(e) + "_" + _h(t)
    def dc(a): return hashlib.sha256(a.encode()).hexdigest()
    def _h(a): return hashlib.sha512(a.encode()).hexdigest()
    r = []
    for u in t: r.append(Ed(u, e[u]))
    n = dc(",".join(r))
    return _h(n + Ed("", ""))

headers = {
    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:130.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/130.0'}
apiheaders = {
    'x-manga-is-crawler': "false",
    'x-manga-hash': mangahash(episode_id)  # w/o this header site won't return links to images
}

print("Getting from episode: " + episode_id)
r = sess.get(url="https://api.pocket.shonenmagazine.com/web/episode/viewer?platform=3&episode_id=" + episode_id, headers={**headers, **apiheaders})
data = r.json()

#with open("resp.json", "w+", encoding="utf-8") as file_:file_.write(r.text)

if not r.ok:
    print("Invalid request")
    print(r)
    sys.exit(1)


def dlImage(url, outFilename, drm, drmkey):
    r = sess.get(url, stream=True, headers=headers)

    if not r.ok:
        print(r)
        return

    content_type = r.headers.get('content-type')
    if content_type == "image/jpeg":
        outFilename = outFilename + ".jpg"
    elif content_type == "image/png":
        outFilename = outFilename + ".png"
    else:
        print("content type not recognized!")
        print(r)
        return

    with open(outFilename, 'wb') as file:
        for block in r.iter_content(1024):
            if not block:
                break
            file.write(block)

    if drm == True:
        source = Image.open(outFilename)
        dest = source.copy()
        
        def draw_subimage(sx, sy, sWidth, sHeight, dx, dy):
            rect = source.crop((sx, sy, sx+sWidth, sy+sHeight))
            dest.paste(rect, (dx, dy, dx+sWidth, dy+sHeight))

        def ve(num):
            def rshift(val, n): return (val % 0x100000000) >> n
            e = num
            while True:
                e ^= (e << 13)
                e ^= rshift(e, 17)
                e ^= (e << 5)
                e %= 2**32
                yield e

        DIVIDE_NUM = 4
        MULTIPLE = 8
        cell_width = (source.width // (DIVIDE_NUM * MULTIPLE)) * MULTIPLE
        cell_height = (source.height // (DIVIDE_NUM * MULTIPLE)) * MULTIPLE
        s = ve(drmkey)
        for e in enumerate(map(lambda x:x[1], sorted(map(lambda x:(next(s), x), range(DIVIDE_NUM*DIVIDE_NUM))))):
            t = e[1] // DIVIDE_NUM * cell_height
            n = e[1] % DIVIDE_NUM * cell_width
            s = e[0] % DIVIDE_NUM * cell_width
            c = (e[0] // DIVIDE_NUM) * cell_height
            draw_subimage(n, t, cell_width, cell_height, s, c)

        dest.save(outFilename)

nextEpisodeId = None

if 'next_episode' in data and 'episode_id' in data['next_episode']:
    nextEpisodeId = data['next_episode']['episode_id']

pages = data['page_list'] if 'page_list' in data else []

if len(pages) == 0:
    print("No pages found")
    sys.exit(1)

if data.get('scramble_seed') == None:
    print('Could not find scramble seed.')
    sys.exit(1)

#choJuGiga = data['choJuGiga'] if 'choJuGiga' in data else ''
#print('choJuGiga: ', choJuGiga)
#drm = choJuGiga != "usagi"
drm = True
drmkey = data['scramble_seed']

pageIndex = 0

for page in pages:
    src = page
    print(src)
    pageIndex += 1
    outFile = os.path.join(destination, f"{pageIndex:04d}")
    dlImage(src, outFile, drm, drmkey)

if nextEpisodeId != None:
    print("Next episode:", nextEpisodeId)

Now script requires episode id (YYY in url like https://pocket.shonenmagazine.com/titles/XXX/episode/YYY) instead of url to chapter.

They quite changed the site (calculating hash for request, new drm method, new json scheme, etc.). I wrote and tested working code on some free titles but it will fail on a paid one for sure due to api changes.

code
Now script requires episode id (YYY in url like https://pocket.shonenmagazine.com/titles/XXX/episode/YYY) instead of url to chapter.

It was definitely a complete change. The most I knew was that they no longer use GIGAVIEWER but now use something called CiaoPlus — at least that’s what they mentioned in the HakuNeko Discord. Thanks for this update to the code!

They quite changed the site (calculating hash for request, new drm method, new json scheme, etc.). I wrote and tested working code on some free titles but it will fail on a paid one for sure due to api changes.
code

Now script requires episode id (YYY in url like https://pocket.shonenmagazine.com/titles/XXX/episode/YYY) instead of url to chapter.

King

There is an error when the program tries to login and the login ends up failing, I have installed the necessary libraries.
I tried to download the latest and paid chapter for kaoru hana manga but couldn't, at the end of the process it indicated invalid response.

LOGIN FAILED {'Content-Type': 'text/html;charset=utf-8', 'Transfer-Encoding': 'chunked', 'Connection': 'keep-alive', 'Date': 'Thu, 17 Jul 2025 11:46:05 GMT', 'vary': 'Accept-Encoding', 'x-powered-by': 'Nuxt', 'X-Robots-Tag': 'index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1', 'content-encoding': 'gzip', 'X-Cache': 'Error from cloudfront', 'Via': '1.1 367e80e95c5ef14d28af079c4ff4dfbc.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)', 'X-Amz-Cf-Pop': 'CGK51-P1', 'X-Amz-Cf-Id': 'WMH5JAPVfSrE6roDL3vHkgo1LUQfYinCIT-NXD_zBUDzIk80Qx7n1A==', 'X-XSS-Protection': '1; mode=block', 'X-Frame-Options': 'SAMEORIGIN', 'Referrer-Policy': 'strict-origin-when-cross-origin', 'X-Content-Type-Options': 'nosniff', 'Strict-Transport-Security': 'max-age=31536000'} 404 Page not found: /user_account/login

Getting from episode: https://pocket.shonenmagazine.com/title/01524/episode/420176 Invalid request <Response [400]>