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RoyalRoadL-Scraper

A basic downloader of novels from royalroadl.com.

This package uses mozilla's readability package to parse a fiction into a reader mode and save the content in html and as a PDF.

There are a lot of niceties that could be implemented. Additional parameters for formatting, splitting up the pdfs into multiple files, caching, etc. However this is more or less just a quick, dirty, and lightweight way to save some novels offline.

Installation

npm install -g rrl-scraper

The CLI should now be accessible via command rrl-scraper

Usage

For general usage run command rrl-scraper help.

Both id's can be found in RRL's url.

• rrl-scraper <fictionID | fictionURL> - Generates a compiled PDF & HTML file of all chapters for the given fiction.
  • http://royalroadl.com/fiction/9179 - 9179 is the fictionID

Usage: rrl-scraper [options] <fiction>

Generate a pdf & html version of a fiction from RoyalRoadl.com. Provide a fiction id or url as the main argument.

Options:
  -V, --version            output the version number
  --no-pdf                 Do not generate a pdf file
  -o, --output-dir [path]  The directory to output generated files. Defaults to current directory.
  --no-create-subdir       Do not create a sub directory in chosen output directory for the generated files.
  -h, --help               output usage information

Example Commands

# Downloads Epilogue to ~/Documents/Novels/epilogue_21374
rrl-scraper -o ~/Documents/Novels https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/21374/epilogue

# Downloads Epilogue but does not make a pdf in the directory the command was run in
rrl-scraper --no-pdf 21374

# Downloads Epilogue (via fiction id) to  ~/Documents/Novels/epilogue_21374
rrl-scraper -o ~/Documents/Novels 21374

Development

Feel free to make improvements and submit a PR!