Kavita, meaning Stories, is a lightweight manga server. The goal is to replace Ubooqity with an open source variant that is flexible and packs more punch, without sacrificing ease to use.

Goals:

Server up Comics (cbr, cbz, zip/rar, pdf, raw images) and Books (epub, mobi, azw, djvu, pdf)
Provide Reader for Comics and Books via web app that is responsive
Provide customization themes (server installed) for web app
Provide hooks into metadata providers to fetch Manga/Comic data
Metadata should allow for collections, want to read integration from 3rd party services, genres.
Expose an OPDS API/Stream for external readers to use
Allow downloading files directly from WebApp
WebApp/Server is Translated via Weblate (free for Open Source)

How to Deploy

Build kavita-webui via ng build --prod. The dest should be placed in the API/wwwroot directory
Run publish command

Description

Kavita is a fast, feature rich, cross platform reading server. Built with the goal of being a full solution for all your reading needs. Setup your own server and share your reading collection with your friends and family.

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Readme GPL-3.0 223 MiB

Languages

C# 61.1%

TypeScript 24.2%

HTML 12%

SCSS 2.4%

Shell 0.1%