safirex / wnovelarchiver

python script to download and keep to date web novels

note: ripping is bad, don't do it

WNovelArchiver

A simple python script to easily download and keep up to date raw web-novels on syosetu and kakuyomu
If you have another WN site (JP/CN/KR/...) which you would like to be usable, feel free to put an issue.
If your connection isn't stable, the script may (will) crash while downloading.

Features:

• batch download (1 to max) from the input.txt
• update chapters of all the novels in the /novel_list/ directory
• generate a status file recording for every novel the last chapter ddl-ed
• compressing each novel in a zip of its own (not accessible by commands atm)

Sites featured:

• Syosetu ncode and novel18
• Kakuyomu
• Wuxiaworld.com

Instructions

more details in https://github.com/safirex/WNovelArchiver/wiki

The input.txt is used to give the script the entries to download.
It should be written in csv style (code;novelname):
The novel name can be let empty, in this case the script will fetch the novel name from the site

With n5947eg being the code of the novel accessed by https://ncode.syosetu.com/n5947eg/

codes:

• syosetsu : code of the novel
• syosetsu 18+: n18code of the novel
• kakyomu : code of the novel
• wuxiaworld : Name-Of-The-Novel