Novel-Grabber is a GUI based web scrapper that can download and convert chapters into EPUB from various supported web novel sites or from any other site manually.
Download Novel-Grabber.zip and execute the launcher inside, if you can't execute the jar, try to start it via the terminal command:
java -jar NG-Launcher.jar
Starting NG-Launcher.jar
will update and re-download files. You can also start the main program directly via Novel-Grabber.jar
inside the bin
subfolder.
<a>
tag of it. (via css selector)Use these arguments with the main Novel-Grabber.jar
from inside the bin
folder!
[] = optional paramaters {} = arguments for paramater
Parameter | Arguments | Description |
---|---|---|
-gui / none |
Starts the Graphical User Interface. | |
-link | {novel_URL} | URL to the novel's table of contents page. Starts download. |
[-wait] | {miliseconds} | Time between each chapter grab. |
[-headless] | {chrome/firefox/opera/edge/IE/headless} | Visit the website in your browser. Executes javascript etc. |
[-chapters] | {all}, {5 27}, {12 last} | Specify which chapters to download. |
[-path] | {directory_path} | Output directory for the EPUB. |
[-login] | Log in on website with saved account. -account is not needed if an account for this domain was added previously. | |
[-noDesc] | Don't create a description page. | |
[-getImages] | Grab images from chapter body as well. | |
[-displayTitle] | Write the chapter title at the top of each chapter text. | |
[-invertOrder] | Invert the chapter order. | |
-help | Shows the help page. |
Example:
java -jar Novel-Grabber.jar -link http://host.com/novel/ -chapters 15 last -getImages
To host your own Telegram bot you need to add the line telegramApiToken=your_token
to your config.ini
or on the GUI via the Telegram Bot settings tab.
By default the bot will read the output for /info
from a info.txt
file inside the telegram folder which you can adjust.
To start the bot you need to use the -telegramBot
parameter:
java -jar Novel-Grabber.jar -telegramBot
Most sites prohibit the scrapping for their content. Use at your own risk. Please use with appropriate wait times. Downloaded chapters are for private use only.
Novel Grabber was build in Java with: