This set of Python scripts are aimed at downloading chapters from novels available on webnovel.com and convert them into the EPUB format.
To run this script, you will need to have a Python 3 installation, which you can find here.
Additionally, you will need chromedriver, which you can find here.
The easiest way to install chromedriver is through a package manager:
- Mac OS:
brew cask install chromedriver - Linux:
npm -g install chromedriver
Otherwise, download it from the website, unpack the ZIP file and place the executable chromedriver somewhere in your PATH.
It is also possible to use geckodriver (ie. Firefox), although for now, only through the --with-firefox-data command line argument (or by manually editting the webnovel2epub.py file).
- Download and save your favorite novels from webnovel.com into an EPUB file.
- Automatically adds some metadata like author, title, series names and cover if available.
- Grabs the list of Novel as well as available chapters and metadata in real-time.
- Possibility to merge new chapters into an old EPUB file
This script was developed while using Python 3.7. It should however also work with older Python 3 versions. Also, you'll need a modified version of ebooklib, which you can find here, selenium and tqdm. To get them just open a terminal and run:
pip install git+https://github.com/Takishima/ebooklib.git@master selenium tqdm pillow
Note that on some Linux installations, you might need to install libxml2-dev and libxmlsec1-dev. E.g.
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxmlsec1-dev
Before running the script make sure you that chromedriver can be found somewhere in your PATH.
Navigate to the folder using the terminal then enter:
python3 webnovel2epub.py --help
This should display a help message showing you all the available options.
If you did not add Python to the PATH variable during the installation or afterwards you might need to specify the Python executable path explicitly:
path/where/you/installed/python3 webnovel2ebook.py --help
Downloading a novel can be as simple as running:
python3 webnovel2epub.py
The script will then lead you to finding a novel by browsing the various categories on webnovel.com, allowing you to choose a title and then downloading all the relevant metadata and chapter data. After it finishes, you should find a new EPUB file in the folder you launched the command from.
If you possess a webnovel.com login (for now only login with email is supported), you can allow the script to login into your account, which would then allow you to access all the chapters you have unlocked. For that, you might want to take a look at the following command line options:
--with-credentials--with-usernameand--with-password
The script can be also completely automated. For example:
python webnovel2ebook.py --with-credentials webnovel.auth \
--with-chapter-start 1000 --with-chapter-end -1 \
--with-category video-games --with-title avatar
which would download chapters 1000 and above from The King's Avatar (at the time of writing that novel is the only one containing the word avatar in the top selection of video games novels).
Have a look at the help message for more information on the possibilities of automation.
Nothing yet. If you encounter some problems or have some ideas for improving the scripts, please create an issue or contact me.
This project is licensed under the Mozilla Public License Version 2.0 - see the LICENSE file for details
This small project originated from me tinkering with the webnovel2ebook code from seba11998.