Check out seba11998's fork for a more up-to-date version.
This Python script will download chapters from novels availaible on Qidan International aka webnovel.com and saves them into the .epub format.
To run this script you'll need to have Python 3.6.1 install, which you can find here.
Additionally you'll need PhantomJS, which you can find here. After downloading PhantomJS extract the zip file and copy the executeble from the bin folder into the folder the script is located in.
- Download and save you favorite Novels from webnovel.com into a .epub file
- Automatically adds some metadata like author, title, series names and cover
- Grabs the list of Novel as well as available chapters and metadata in realtime
As mentioned before this script was written for Python version 3.6.1. It may work with other versions too but none are tested. Also you'll need selenium, beautifulsoup and requests. Do get them just open a terminal, cd to the folder where the program is located and run:
pip install -r requirements.txt
or run:
pip install beautifulsoup4
pip install requests
pip install selenium
Before running the script make sure you copied PhantomJS into the project folder. If you running something else then Windows, you'll need to change the name of the PhantomJS executable in webnovel2ebook.py on line 38.
Navigate to the folder using the console then write:
python webnovel2ebook.py
if you didn't add Python to the PATH variable during the installation or afterwards the write
path/where/you/installed/python.exe webnovel2ebook.py
then you shoud see a list of categorys. Enter a number to select a category which then gives you a list of Novels to choose from. And again enter a number to choose a novel. Afterwards the program will gather chapter information and metadata. When everything is finished it'll ask for the starting chapter and the end chapter. Just enter the chapters you want and hit enter. Now it should download the chapters you wanted and will save them into an .epub file that is located in the folder the script is located in.
Although the code works as far as I know there a a lot of small bugs that I have yet to fix. If you come across some of them feel free to let me know so I have a general idea what is still necesarry to fix.
- Chapternames sometimes are not displayed correctly
- newArrivals und matureBooks don't work
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details
- Hat tip to anyone on stackexchange who helped me in my most dire times
