(c) 2015 David Teviotdale
Extension for Firefox and Chrome that converts Web Novels (and other web pages) into an EPUB. Works with many sites, including the following:
- Baka-Tsuki.org
- ArchiveOfOurOwn.org
- blogspot (some)
- mugglenet.com
- FanFiction.net
- gravitytales.com
- hellping.org
- krytykal.org
- moonbunnycafe.com
- nanodesu (some of the *thetranslation.wordpress.com sites)
- readlightnovel.com
- royalroad.com
- shikkakutranslations.org
- sonako.wikia.com
- wuxiaworld.com
- rebirth.online
- and many other sites
Credits
- Firefox port by Markus Vieth
- Michael Fox (Belldandu)
- typhoon71
- toshiya44
- dreamer2908
- Parser for German Project Gutenberg by GallusMax
- Hogesyx
- Asif Mahmood
- snnsnn
- Sergii Pravdzivyi
- Aurimas Niekis
- Tom Goetz
- Alen Toma (css styling)
- JimmXinu
- gamebeaker (additional metadata, Library)
- Kondeeza
- Mathnerd314
- Sickan90
- Miracutor
- Kiradien
- Synteresis
- Lej77
- nandakishore2009 (Parsers for madnovel.com, www.panda-novel.com)
- courli79
- Dimava
- alethiophile
- Yoanhg421
- Browse to a Baka-Tsuki web page that has the full text of a story.
- Click on the WebToEpub icon on top right of the window.
- Check story details are correct.
- Select image to use for cover.
- Click the "Pack EPUB" button.
- Wait for progress bar to finish (indicating the images being downloaded) and the generated EPUB to be placed in your downloads directory.
- Browse to first chapter of story you want.
- Click on the WebToEpub icon on top right of the window.
- Check story details are correct.
- Click the "Pack EPUB" button.
- Wait for progress bar to finish (indicating the additional chapters are being downloaded) and the generated EPUB to be placed in your downloads directory.
See: https://dteviot.github.io/Projects/webToEpub_DefaultParser.html
For details on how to extend, see the following
- https://dteviot.github.io/Projects/webToEpub_FAQ.html#write-parser
- https://dteviot.github.io/Projects/webToEpub_FAQ.html
- http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1060680/Web-to-EPUB-Extension-for-Chrome.
- Start Chrome
- Go to https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/webtoepub/akiljllkbielkidmammnifcnibaigelm
- Click on the "Add to Chrome" button.
- Start Firefox
- Go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/webtoepub-for-baka-tsuki
- Click on "Download anyway"
- Caution I have not (and do not test) on Android. I've been told the following work, but I can't guarantee them.
- Get yourself
Kiwi browser
,Yandex browser
, orFirefox nightly
(not default Firefox branch, it does not supports extensions.) - Install from
Chrome web store
for Kiwi and Yandex, of fromMozilla addons
for Firefox Nightly (links above).
The easiest set of steps is using Firefox.
- Download prebuilt Firefox version of extension from https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1B_X2WcsaI_eg9yA-5bHJb8VeTZGKExl8?usp=sharing.
- Open Firefox and type "about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox" into the URL bar.
- Click "Load Temporary Add-on".
- Click on the zip file you downloaded in step 1.
- Download prebuilt Chrome version of extension from https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1B_X2WcsaI_eg9yA-5bHJb8VeTZGKExl8?usp=sharing.
- Unpack zip file
- Open Chrome and type "chrome://extensions" into the browser.
- Make sure "Developer Mode" at the top of the page is checked.
- Press the "Load unpacked extension.." button and browse to unpacked zip directory from step 2.
- Clone this repo
- Build extension. See "To run Eslint (and build the plugin)" in "Other notes" below.
- Install extension in browser of choice, using instructions above.
Licenced under GPLv3.
WebToEpub uses the following libraries:
- JSZip library v3.0.0: https://github.com/Stuk/jszip, which is dual licensed with the MIT license or GPLv3.
- quint: http://qunitjs.com/, licensed under MIT license.
- Install Node.js (if not already installed)
- Run
npm install
to install dependencies - Run
npm run lint
to build plugin and lint - This will produce 3 files in the eslint directory.
- WebToEpub0.0.0.x.xpi (Firefox version of plug-in.)
- WebToEpub0.0.0.x.zip (Chrome version of plug-in.)
- packed.js
- Lint tests are OK if output ends with
Wrote Zip to disk; Done in XXXs.
- Install Node.js (if not already installed)
- Run
npm install
to install dependencies - Run
npm test
- Tests will be launched in your default browser. To open them in different browser, open the page URL in it.
- If you are not trying to run unit tests in
/unitTest/
folder, you do not need this- If you can use nodejs, see previous paragraph instead
- If you can not install nodejs or http-server is not working when you run
npm test
, and you have no alternative ways to serve files (like chrome Web Server app for example), you have to allow browser to run local html files to run tests.
- Close all running copies of Chrome
- Start Chrome with command line argument
--allow-file-access-from-files
. That is:
- Open a command propmt
- Browse to the directory holding Chrome
- Type in command
chrome.exe --allow-file-access-from-files
. Press "Enter".- If you don't do this, some tests will fail with error messages containing the text Failed to execute 'send' on 'XMLHttpRequest': Failed to load.
- Load
unitTest/Tests.html
- If you get Failed to read the 'localStorage' property from 'Window': Access is denied for this document errors
- Type chrome://settings/content into Chrome's search bar
- Uncheck Block third-party cookies and site data
- Click Finished
- Re-run unit tests
- When finished with unit tests.
- Restore original value of Block third-party cookies and site data (if you changed it).
- close all running copies of Chrome
- Start Firefox
- Go to
about:config
- Find
security.fileuri.strict_origin_policy
parameter- Set it to false
- Load
unitTest/Tests.html
- (Remember to reset
security.fileuri.strict_origin_policy
to true when done.