Manga Downloader.py

import urllib2
import urllib
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import os
import requests
import socket
from time import sleep

def download(url, filename, path1):

        # open the page url and get the html stuff into the page variable
        page=urllib2.urlopen(url)
        
        #soupyfy it and store in soup
        soup=BeautifulSoup(page)
        
        # get the required images (a list with tag matching "img") with
        # ALL its attributes by looking for the tag "img"
        img=soup.findAll("img")
        
        # in the case of mutiple images matching the img tag condition then we are
        # taking each element of the list and getting its Source(src) url
        for imglink in img:
                # final url of the .jpg file
                finalurl=imglink.get("src")

        try:
                # using finalurl we get the whole image into image
                image=urllib.urlopen(finalurl)
                if not(image.headers.maintype=="image"):
                        print "not a image"
                        return "done"
        except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError:
                import sys
                # prints `type(e), e` where `e` is the last exception
                print sys.exc_info()[:2]
                return "try"
                
        # read the file into buf
        buf=image.read()
        
        # simply catenate the strings to get the file path
        # path1 is the path of the file's location
        filepath="%s%s" % (path1,filename)
        # print the message to show we have done it
        print filename+" stored to "+filepath
        
        # open a file handle to write with
        download=file(filepath,"wb")

        # WRITE file to location
        download.write(buf)

        #close both handles
        download.close()
        image.close()

        return "done"
                   



# url of the base wesite with which to work with
base="http://www.mangareader.net/388-26158-1/red-river/chapter-1.html"

# chapter number - ch_no ; the value will change for different manga its base[34:36]
ch_no=58

#set the storage path HERE (my default download path)
path='C:\\Users\\Aditya\\Desktop\\Work\\WallPapers\\Manga\\'

# this downloads chapters 5 to 97
for j in range(1,97):
        # base[0:34] give the first 34 characters
        tempurl=base[0:34]+str(ch_no+j)+"-"
        #check if the folder for the 'i+1'th chapter exists
        if not os.path.exists(path+str(j+1)+"\\"):
                #if not make it
                os.makedirs(path+str(j+1)+"\\")
        #and store the pages of the chapter in the chapter folder by changing the path
        temppath=path+str(j+1)+"\\"
                
                
        # the loop over the pages
        for i in range(42):
                finalurl=tempurl+str(i+1)+base[38:]
                name=str(i+1)+".jpg"
                #checks for 404 error
                check=requests.head(finalurl)
                if check.status_code==404:
                        break

                con="try"
                while(con=="try"):
                        # this is in order to avoid the 'Max retries exceeded with url' error
                        # this actually means No connection could be made because the
                        # target machine actively refused it
                        sleep(.05)
                        
                        # call the function to start downloading!
                        con=download(finalurl,name,temppath)