Filtering Mangas
If you do not wish to scroll through the thousands of mangas in the Manga List Pane to find the manga that you wish to download, the you can use the filtering functionality of YF Otaku Grabber to find the manga that you want with ease. There are two methods of filtering...
Quick Filtering and
Advanced Filtering.
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Quick Filtering
Quick filtering makes use of the Quick Search Bar (See image below, highlighted in red) to filter out mangas by name.

You enter the name, or part of the name of the manga that you wish to find, and click on the
button to conduct the search. Any mangas whose titles match or contains part of the phrase that you entered in the text field will be displayed in the Manga List Pane. You will then be able to select mangs to download as normal.
As for the
button, this is used to display all of the mangas that are hosted in the site. This is useful for cases where the Manga List Pane currently has the results of a recent search, and you wish to retrieve the entire catalog of mangas.
Advanced Filtering
Advanced Filtering allows you to better narrow down your search results, by conducting searches based not only on name, but also by:
- Author
- Artist
- One or more genres
- Year released (On, Before or After a particular year)
- Status (Ongoing or Completed)
In order to use Advanced Filtering, you click on the
button in the Menu Bar (See image below, highlighted in red)

A window will appear that will allow you to specify more detailed criteria for your search:

Click on the "Advanced search" check box and you will be able to make your search criteria more detailed and base your searches based on Author, Genre etc (Basically the criteria outlined before). After you have specified your search criteria, click on the "Filter" button and the application will perform the search. All mangas that satisfies the search criteria will be displayed in the Manga List Pane. You will then be able to select mangas to download as normal.
As for the "Show All" button, this simply retrieves the entire catalogue of mangas that have been loaded before. This is useful in a situation where the Manga List Pane only contains the search results of a recent search (Basically a subset of the entire catalogue of mangas)
Note - Advanced filtering and the Caching process
When a manga site's catalogue of mangas are loaded for the first time, the application carries out what is known as the
Caching Process. This basically obtains the details about each of the mangas hosted on the site in the background (Basically the Author, Genre, Author, etc.). Therefore the application only knows the name of each of the mangas that are in the catalogue, and hasn't obtained the other details yet, there for an Advanced Search (Which requires the knowledge of the other properties of the manga) cannot be carried out yet until the Caching Process is complete.
If you attempt to use Advanced Filtering while the Caching Process is still underway the application will warn you that you will only be able to search by name, and not allowed to specify any other search criteria until this process is complete. The Advanced Filter window will still appear, but the "Advanced Filter" button will be disabled.