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Old 10-21-2017, 08:46 PM   #2502
mehetabelo
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Is it possible to get some download url normalization (not sure if that's the right term) for webnovel? Currently it can accept multiple different urls for the same download on webnovel, or hundreds if you really wanted to.

Depending on where you get the link on their website, webnovel may give you one of two different URLs. For example, depending on where you get the link from an example would be:
https://www.webnovel.com/book/8299599706003805
https://www.webnovel.com/book/829959...ion-Chat-Group
both read as separate books despite the fact they are essentially the same url, just with an additional level for the identifier added. The only difference is where the link comes from. I'm not sure why, but I noticed that this problem occurred for me recently when I was trying to update a few novels from the website rather than finding them directly in calibre and instead of updating it downloaded the entire story again as a new story.

Based on what I've seen anything after www.webnovel.com/book/ID#/ is more of an empty parameter that's serves no true purpose. For example, for the URL above
https://www.webnovel.com/book/8299599706003805/wacky will link to the same story.
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