Scribblehub-to-epub

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NOT WORKING ANY LONGER

Cloudflare bot detection has made it impossible for me to make this script working any longer. In previous times, it was possible to just use a normal fetch on scribblehub to get web pages. This is no longer possible. I have tried many things but could not get around the bot detection, not without using some payed proxies specifically for scraping, which is really slow and unreliable at best.

I suggest using a chrome extension like WebToEpub which runs directly and chrome and as such, does not suffer from bot detection as much.

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This program scrapes a single story of Scribblehub and exports it as a book in epub format. The epub can be read by most ebook readers, such as Kindle.

Installation

npm install -g @annadamm/scribblehub-to-epub

Usage

scribblehub-to-epub <scribblehub-url>
# get all available options:
scribblehub-to-epub --help

<scribblehub-url> refers to the main page of a story, looking like this: https://www.scribblehub.com/series/<id>/<name>/, e.g: https://www.scribblehub.com/series/36420/the-fastest-man-alive/. If you use a chapter url instead of a main url, it will start downloading from that chapter.

All CLI Parameters

Usage: scribble-to-epub [options] <url> [out-file]

Downloads a book from scribblehub.com and outputs it as an epub file

Arguments:
  url                         base url of the Scribble Hub series
                              (e.g. "https://www.scribblehub.com/series/36420/the-fastest-man-alive/).
                              Using a url of a chapter instead of the main page will start downloading on that chapter,
                              overriding the "start-with" option
  out-file                    file name of the generated epub, defaults to "dist/<book-url-slug>.epub"

Options:
  -V, --version               output the version number
  -s, --start-with <chapter>  Chapter index to start with.
                              Will be ignored when the <url> parameter is a chapter url (default: 1)
  -e, --end-with <chapter>    Chapter index to end with, defaults to the end of the book
  -o, --overwrite             overwrite the [out-file] if it already exists
  -O, --no-overwrite          do not overwrite the [out-file] if it already exists
  -P, --no-progress           do not show a progress bar
  -v, --verbose               verbosity that can be increased (-v, -vv, -vvv)
  -q, --quiet                 do not output anything (default: false)
  --cache-dir <dir>           Cache directory (default: "~/node_modules/.cache/scribblehub-to-epub")
  -h, --help                  display help for command

Changelog

See changes between versions in the Changelog.

Report bugs and feature requests

Report any bugs and feature requests on GitHub Issues

Contribute

Clone GitHub and install dependencies:

git clone https://github.com/AnnaDamm/scribblehub-to-epub.git
cd scribblehub-to-epub
npm ci