Auto download and merging of web novels chapters into one epub : any software ?

Trenien · 12-08-2015, 04:09 PM

The title says it all. I've recently been reading quite a lot of web novel, and of course I can always keep opening each chapter's page by hand, copy paste it in a single file I'll then convert to an epub with Calibre.

But that process is tedious. Especially with web novels with a number of chapters well above 50 or more. So I'm hoping somebody knows of any software that only needs to be fed a ToC page to do all this automatically (whatever file format it ends up as, I can always convert it afterwards)

By the way, I found that one:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LightNovels...ls_to_epubpdf/
Unfortunately, it doesn't work for me (it might be because I use linux and I tried running it with wine)

Anyone?

PeterT · 12-08-2015, 06:34 PM

Have you checked out [GUI Plugin] FanFicFare?

Trenien · 12-09-2015, 02:24 AM

Well, after taking a look, it appears that while impressive, this plugin isn't what I'm looking for: it only works with sites it has been set up for, and doing so appears definitely not trivial.

Unfortunately a far cry from the idea of feeding the html address of a ToC page and getting a single file with all the chapters in it.

PeterT · 12-09-2015, 08:32 AM

The people behind that plugin are quite open to coding and adding new sites.

You could also look at some of the browser plugins that aid in creating ePubs from web pages. See dotEPUB and GrabMyBooks for instance.

https://dotepub.com/
http://www.grabmybooks.com/

Trenien · 12-09-2015, 09:29 AM

The Grabmybook extension is exactly it!

Thanks.

For anyone interested, you need to go to the ToC page of whatever you want to get, select the appropriate links and in the right click contextual menu choose the "grab the selected links" option. From then it's fairly straightforward.

12-08-2015, 04:09 PM	#1
Trenien Groupie Posts: 173 Karma: 3277 Join Date: Jun 2007 Device: Librie, eReader, Kobo Glo	Auto download and merging of web novels chapters into one epub : any software ? The title says it all. I've recently been reading quite a lot of web novel, and of course I can always keep opening each chapter's page by hand, copy paste it in a single file I'll then convert to an epub with Calibre. But that process is tedious. Especially with web novels with a number of chapters well above 50 or more. So I'm hoping somebody knows of any software that only needs to be fed a ToC page to do all this automatically (whatever file format it ends up as, I can always convert it afterwards) By the way, I found that one: https://www.reddit.com/r/LightNovels...ls_to_epubpdf/ Unfortunately, it doesn't work for me (it might be because I use linux and I tried running it with wine) Anyone?

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12-08-2015, 06:34 PM	#2
PeterT Grand Sorcerer Posts: 12,166 Karma: 73448616 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Toronto Device: Nexus 7, Clara, Touch, Tolino EPOS	Have you checked out [GUI Plugin] FanFicFare?

12-09-2015, 02:24 AM	#3
Trenien Groupie Posts: 173 Karma: 3277 Join Date: Jun 2007 Device: Librie, eReader, Kobo Glo	Well, after taking a look, it appears that while impressive, this plugin isn't what I'm looking for: it only works with sites it has been set up for, and doing so appears definitely not trivial. Unfortunately a far cry from the idea of feeding the html address of a ToC page and getting a single file with all the chapters in it.

12-09-2015, 08:32 AM	#4
PeterT Grand Sorcerer Posts: 12,166 Karma: 73448616 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Toronto Device: Nexus 7, Clara, Touch, Tolino EPOS	The people behind that plugin are quite open to coding and adding new sites. You could also look at some of the browser plugins that aid in creating ePubs from web pages. See dotEPUB and GrabMyBooks for instance. https://dotepub.com/ http://www.grabmybooks.com/

12-09-2015, 09:29 AM	#5
Trenien Groupie Posts: 173 Karma: 3277 Join Date: Jun 2007 Device: Librie, eReader, Kobo Glo	The Grabmybook extension is exactly it! Thanks. For anyone interested, you need to go to the ToC page of whatever you want to get, select the appropriate links and in the right click contextual menu choose the "grab the selected links" option. From then it's fairly straightforward.