Shell script that reads a file with URLs of single literotica stories and stores them as PDFs locally. Authors are often known to delete their stories, it is best to have a local copy.

• wkhtmltopdf
• perl-exiftool
• pdf-poppler-utils
• recode
• GNU coreutils (cut, rev, grep, curl, xargs, ...)

/path/to/literotica.sh /path/to/url/file /path/to/download/directory [number of stories to download concurrently (default=1)]

urlfile should be literotica links separated by newline :

https://www.literotica.com/s/...
https://www.literotica.com/s/...
https://www.literotica.com/s/...
...

• Stores stories as pdf.
• Works for illustrated stories.
• Has an inbuilt adblocker. Removes ads and cam links, keeping just the story and related details.
• If a story is multipaged, link to the first page only, in that case all pages will be downloaded into one file.
• Can be used in conjunction with tor to anonymize.
• Is POSIX compliant (tested with dash).
• Includes all comments from the story at the end of the pdf.

• This script will not sort stories by category, it will just dump them into one folder.
• This script does not have a help menu or a man page.
• This script will not throttle based on CPU power or internet connection, the concurrency argument is to be provided manually.
• This script does not store in any other format, only PDF.
• This script has no inbuilt way to stop the comments from being attached at the end.
• This script does not work for multi-chaptered stories.
• This script does not preserve files with the same name. If two stories have the same title, first one is overwritten.
• This script does not include the author's biography in the file.
• This script does not include options to change font size or theme. Original font size and themes are used.
• This script is not posix compliant.