wooodhead / site2epub

Extensions to turn online novels into epubs for offline reading.

A collection of extensions for creating epubs for offline reading from various online novel sites. They use a shared central framework, with per-site configurations. They only have one main external dependency, on jszip, which is used to compress the epub contents (epubs are essentially a special type of zip) - all other dependencies are simply for packaging. It also inlines a copy of nodepub, in order to make changes to support reading input from dynamic sources, and to remove unused features that require additional dependencies.

To Build

• npm install
• webpack build --config-name [site name] (or webpack build to rebuild all)
• cd dist/[site name]
• web-ext build

To Run

• These extensions are unsigned (for now) and will need to be run in developer mode. Download the most recent version of the site you want from the web-ext-artifacts folder and follow the instructions for running it for your browser:
  • Firefox - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/about:debugging#Add-ons
  • Chrome - https://webkul.com/blog/how-to-install-the-unpacked-extension-in-chrome/
• Go to the chapter index for the novel - if you try to run from somewhere other than the main chapter list, it will fail.