Kavita


Kavita is a fast, feature rich, cross platform reading server. Built with a focus for manga, and 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!

Goals:

• Serve up Manga/Webtoons/Comics (cbr, cbz, zip/rar, raw images) and Books (epub, mobi, azw, djvu, pdf)
• First class responsive readers that work great on any device
• Provide a dark theme for web app
• Provide hooks into metadata providers to fetch metadata for Comics, Manga, and Books
• Metadata should allow for collections, want to read integration from 3rd party services, genres.
• Ability to manage users, access, and ratings
• Ability to sync ratings and reviews to external services
• And so much more...

How to contribute

• Ensure you've cloned Kavita-webui. You should have Projects/Kavita and Projects/Kavita-webui
• In Kavita-webui, run ng serve. This will start the webserver on localhost:4200
• Run API project in Kavita, this will start the backend on localhost:5000

Deploy local build

• Run build.sh and pass the Runtime Identifier for your OS or just build.sh for all supported RIDs.

How to install

• Unzip the archive for your target OS
• Place in a directory that is writable. If on windows, do not place in Program Files
• Linux users must ensure the directory & kavita.db is writable by Kavita (might require starting server once)
• Run Kavita
• If you are updating, do not copy appsettings.json from the new version over. It will override your TokenKey and you will have to reauthenticate on your devices.

Docker

Running your Kavita server in docker is super easy! Barely an inconvenience. You can run it with this command:

docker run --name kavita -p 5000:5000 \
-v /your/manga/directory:/manga \
-v /kavita/data/directory:/kavita/data \
--restart unless-stopped \
-d kizaing/kavita:latest

You can also run it via the docker-compose file:

version: '3.9'
services:
    kavita:
        image: kizaing/kavita:latest
        volumes:
            - ./manga:/manga
            - ./data:/kavita/data
        ports:
            - "5000:5000"
        restart: unless-stopped

Note: Kavita is under heavy development and is being updated all the time, so the tag for current builds is :nightly. The :latest tag will be the latest stable release. There is also the :alpine tag if you want a smaller image, but it is only available for x64 systems.

Got an Idea?

Got a great idea? Throw it up on the FeatHub or vote on another persons. Please check the Project Board first for a list of planned features.

Want to help?

I am looking for developers with a passion for building the next Plex for Reading. Developers with C#/ASP.NET, Angular 11 please reach out on Discord.

Donate

If you like Kavita, have gotten good use out of it or feel like you want to say thanks with a few bucks, feel free to donate. Money will likely go towards beer or hosting.