Wattpad2Epub downloads and converts Wattpad books into Epub files you can use with your favorite ebook reader.
Wattpad doesn't offer an option to download a book. This forces you to remain online while reading, and use wattpad's application to access the stories.
Having those stories in epub format allows storing them as a backup, offline reading and self publication.
You will need python3. You can install it with brew in osx. For our main script you will need BeatifulSoup4 and ebooklib, you can install them with:
pip3 install BeautifulSoup4
pip3 install ebooklib
You can run the python script doing:
python3 wattpad2epub.py your_url_argument
your_url_argumentshould be your story url, for example:http://www.wattpad.com/story/53207033-the-arwain-chronicles
After the script finished, you will have your epub file inside the root folder, and
it will be named in the format Title - Author .epub, for example:
The Arwain Chronicles Book I - IceheartPhoenix.epub
I've made some quick & dirty tests using the official Wattpad API, and most probably made a few mistakes, but here is what I've found:
- It's in beta state, wich means it may still change
- The documentation seems to be missing some parts
- There were some server failures during my tests
- Couldn't find a reliable way to retrieve a full story text
- Needed double authentication (application + user)
Based on this findings, I've chosen to keep parsing the html, at least for a now, for the following reasons:
- Ability to retrieve full story text (essential)
- No user authentication needed (important)
- No application autentication
If you can figure out a way to do this using Wattpad's api, I'm open to suggestions and/or patches.