Epublifier

Description

# Epublifier #

Fans of eReaders and Kindle can use this tool to generate eReader/Kindle compatible files from websites to read later.

An extremely customizable tool that allows you to extract a list of html pages from a table of content page and compile them into an ePub book to be imported into your eReader of choice.

For advanced users who can write javascript, you can add additional parser definition to customize parsing of any site.

## Features ##
- Support novels with many chapters (tested up to 300 chapters)
- Downloads and embeds images
- Can selectively parse chapters by using shift-select
- Automatically catches main content with readability.js
- Cover image, author, title, description are auto-parsed from some sites.
- Novel Updates
- Configurable parsers for table of contents and chapters

## How to Use ##
- Navigate to a table of content page
- Example: https://www.novelupdates.com/series/<series>
- For novelupdates.com, click the "Show all chapters" button to download all chapters links
- Open popup, it should automatically try to detect the page data
- Click `Load Chapter List`
- Select some chapters (or all of them)
- Click `Extract Chapters`, if all is well, it should say `Parsed` if parser worked
- Click `Compile Epub` to generate the ePub as a download

## Advanced User Configurations ##
**Warning: Advanced configuration requires javascript knowledge**

### Overview ###
There are four configurations for advanced users:
- Table of Content Auto detector - Changes which TOC parser to use depending on page source and URL
- Table of Content parsers - Actually parses HTML into list of chapter URLs or chapter htmls
- Chapter Type Auto Detector - Detects what kindof chapter parser to use depending on page source and URL
- Chapter Parser - Parses a chapter HTML text into text only HTML content

### Configuring a parser ###
You can either create a new YAML parser definition or modify the existing main definition.