Doesn’t grab covers on Webnovel.com

[UnknownSora]

When downloading, and once complete, you get an error message saying

“ Error: Fetch of image 'https://book-pic.webnovel.com/bookcover/24312285405501905?imageMogr2/thumbnail/600&imageId=1694333438508' for page 'https://www.webnovel.com/book/i-am-kurt-von-ritzburg_24312285405501905/chapter-1.-i-am-a-low-grade-villain_73629715629404736' failed with network error 403. This is an intermittent error. If you retry in a few minutes, it may succeed. promptUserForRetry@chrome-extension://akiljllkbielkidmammnifcnibaigelm/js/HttpClient.js:55:28”

It doesn’t work even when tried multiple times like the error message suggested, however, pasting the link in a browser does work to bring it up to download

[dteviot]

@UnknownSora

403 is a permissions thing. There's probably a subtle difference between how the interactive browser is fetching the image and the call WebToEpub is making. You can work around by either setting "Skip chapters that return HTTP 404 error" or "Skip Images" in Advanced Options.

[UnknownSora]

Yeah, it’s not a big deal, just thought I’d let you know

[dteviot]

Actually, I just tried it, and didn't have a problem. The cover image had no problem

• I can see the thumbnail when I open WebToEpub on https://www.webnovel.com/book/i-am-kurt-von-ritzburg_24312285405501905
• WebToEpub does not try to obtain the image for chapter 1. The chapter content is inside the div.cha-content node, which does not include the image.

Are you running in mobile mode?

[UnknownSora]

I tried yesterday on pc, it did the same, I could see the thumbnail but when I pressed the download button it’d bring up two alerts, and on pc it would have the error once complete and it finished packing the epub

[UnknownSora]

Right now it probably is since I’m on mobile, but unless that’s the default, I shouldn’t have it on pc? How do you check if it’s mobile mode?

[dteviot]

@UnknownSora https://www.browserstack.com/guide/view-mobile-version-of-website-on-chrome

[UnknownSora]

Thanks, I’ll check again tomorrow since it’s fairly late for me, have a good day/night <3

[UnknownSora]

Sorry for the late response here, lmao my message from earlier couldn’t send, my internet went out right after I sent the message in the other thread I made haha

Anyways, so I checked before my internet went out, it was 100% not on the mobile site.

[dteviot]

@UnknownSora

OK, so if you:

1. Go to https://www.webnovel.com/book/i-am-kurt-von-ritzburg_24312285405501905,

2. Click on "Table of Contents" on the page so that the page shows the list of chapters

3. Open "WebToEpub"

4. Does the cover image appear on top right corner of WebToEpub?

5. If you try making an epub with just chapter 1 and 2, does WebToEpub behave?

6. Have you set "Add Page with Chapters to Chapters List" on Advanced Options? (If you have, please turn it off.)

[UnknownSora]

Sorry again for the late response

(4) The image does appear, yes (5) Beyond the ‘WARNING: Site 'book-pic.webnovel.com' has sent an Access Denied (403) error. You may need to logon or satisy a CAPTCHA before WebToEpub can continue.‘ It downloads fine, yes (6) I did, removing it has made it less annoying for the error with the chapter list, Thank you

[dteviot]

@UnknownSora Going to close this as seems to work if you get the right settings in WebToEpub.

[UnknownSora]

What do you mean? What settings? How do you get it to work?

[UnknownSora]

When I said it downloads fine, I mean the epub without the image

[dteviot]

@UnknownSora

OK, at this point I'm probably going to need a HAR file https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m98WFEXbhIs to figure out what's going on.

Let's try this:

1. Figure out minimum set of chapters needed to trigger error.
2. Go to relevant ToC page. (Tell me URL of this page)
3. Open WebToEpub
4. Start logging a HAR file for WebToEpub
5. Create minimal Epub (with error)
6. Save HAR file
7. Zip and attach the HAR file.