ComicDB

ComicDB is a self-hosted personal comics library. It is brower-based, you can view and download your comics collection on your PC, smartphone or tablet. It can handle about any digital comic book format as it only links to your comic files.

ComicDB can not open any comic books. To read your comics, you will need a comic reader on your local device.

ComicDB does not provide any encryption or password protection, so only use it on your own private network.

You can find the repo here.


Getting started

  • Install docker and docker-compose
  • Copy or link your comic directories to src/comics
  • run fix_permissions.sh
  • modify COMICDB_PATH and COMPOSE_FILE inside ComicDB.sh to match your installation directory and architecture
  • get an API key for the Comicvine API from https://comicvine.gamespot.com/api/ and put it into api-key.ini

Server Control

  • start the server by running ComicDB.sh or ComicDB.sh start
  • to stop the server just run ComicDB.sh stop
  • to stop the server and delete the docker containers, run ComicDB.sh delete. This will delete your database!

Server Autostart

If you want to automatically start ComicDB when starting your computer, you can e.g. create a cron job that runs ComicDB.sh.

Comics Organization

To get familiar with the way ComicDB expects you to organize your comics, please take a look at the included testing data and the Comicvine wiki.

Testing Data

For testing purposes, ComicDB includes empty dummy files that will match to some comics. You can use these to test if your connection to the API works as intended. To prevent these dummies from showing up in your real library after testing, you should delete them from the comics directory and use the Delete Database button from the main menu to get a clean database for your production data.

Additional Information

Comicvine API

ComicDB uses the Comicvine API. Cover images and additional information on your comics will be downloaded from there.

External Libraries

This project uses, among others, Bootstrap and FontAwesome. As these libraries are only included by links to external servers, ComicDB will not work properly without an internet connection (though this may change in a future release).

Legacy Software

For compatibility reasons to ARMHF, this project uses MySQL 5.5. This may change as newer versions become available as docker images for ARMHF.

Copyright & License

Copyright (c) 2018 ahahn94.

ComicDB is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.