Epublifier

Fans of eReaders and Kindle can use this tool to generate eReader/Kindle compatible files from websites to read later.

An extremely customizable tool that allows you to extract a list of html pages from a table of content page and compile them into an ePub book to be imported into your eReader of choice.

For advanced users who can write javascript, you can add additional parser definition to customize parsing of any site.

Features

Support novels with many chapters (tested up to 300 chapters)
Downloads and embeds images
Can selectively parse chapters by using shift-select
Automatically catches main content with readability.js
Cover image, author, title, description are auto-parsed from some sites.
- Novel Updates
Configurable parsers for table of contents and chapters

How to Use

Navigate to a table of content page
- Example: https://www.novelupdates.com/series/
Open popup, it should automatically try to detect the page data
Click Load Chapter List
Select some chapters (or all of them)
Click Extract Chapters, if all is well, it should say Parsed if parser worked
Click Compile Epub to generate the ePub as a download

Advanced User Configurations

Warning: Advanced configuration requires javascript knowledge

Overview

There are four configurations for advanced users:

Table of Content Auto detector - Changes which TOC parser to use depending on page source and URL
Table of Content parsers - Actually parses HTML into list of chapter URLs or chapter htmls
Chapter Type Auto Detector - Detects what kindof chapter parser to use depending on page source and URL
Chapter Parser - Parses a chapter HTML text into text only HTML content

Configuring a parser

You can either create a new YAML parser definition or modify the existing main definition.

Building

Build Environment

Windows 10
NPM version 8.1.2

Build Steps

Install NPM
Run npm install in base directory
Run npm run build_ff for Firefox
Run npm run build for Chrome

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