wipe manga

manifold mal wipe manga [flags]

Destructive. Wipes the MAL manga list across every status, including adult entries. Anime, profile content, privacy settings, and AniList are never read or modified. No backup is created.

The command defaults to a dry run: it scans every manga-list page, reports the account and count, and exits without deleting. --apply is the confirmation — including in non-interactive runs. There is no yes/no prompt and no --yes flag.

Authenticate first with login mal, or pass a token override.

Flags

--apply

Delete all scanned MAL manga list entries. Without this flag, the command only scans and reports.

• Default: false

Example:

manifold mal wipe manga --apply --backup-paused

--backup-paused

Acknowledge that every other MAL writer is paused or disconnected. Required with --apply. This flag does not stop writers and does not override the API connection check.

• Default: false

Example:

manifold mal wipe manga --apply --backup-paused

--mal-token <token>

Optional MAL access token override. Prefer login mal (keychain) so refresh works. Falls back to MANIFOLD_MAL_TOKEN. A supplied token does not refresh automatically.

Example:

manifold login mal
manifold mal wipe manga

--api-token <token>

Personal API token used only for the backup-connection check against /v1/auth/mal. Falls back to MANIFOLD_TOKEN.

Example:

manifold mal wipe manga --api-token "$MANIFOLD_TOKEN"

--api-origin <url>

Personal API origin for the backup-connection check. Falls back to MANIFOLD_API_ORIGIN.

• Default: https://manifold.jfa.dev/api

Example:

manifold mal wipe manga --api-origin https://manifold.example/api

Usage

manifold login mal
manifold mal wipe manga
bun run manifold mal wipe manga --apply --backup-paused

Before applying

1. Disconnect the Manifold API’s MAL connection in admin Credentials.
2. Pause every other MAL writer and let in-flight writes finish.
3. When MANIFOLD_TOKEN is set, the command GETs /v1/auth/mal and refuses --apply while that connection remains active. --backup-paused does not bypass this check.
4. Without API credentials, the connection is not checked — verify writers yourself.

Behaviour

• Scans every manga-list page (including adult entries) before any delete.
• Deletes sequentially with 1.5-second pacing.
• Progress bar shows count, percentage, elapsed time, and ETA.
• Retries HTTP 429 / 5xx at most three times; stops rather than waiting an unbounded Retry-After.
• After deletes, re-fetches the list and fails if any manga remain.
• A DELETE 404 means the entry is already gone.
• On failure, rerun the same command to scan and delete survivors (no checkpoint file).
• Keep writers disconnected until any subsequent import is finished; reconnecting can resume old backup operations.

An empty manga list exits cleanly. This command only clears MAL. Populate next with migrate anilist-to-mal. It does not change the tracker’s primary provider.