WattpadDownloader (Demo)

Straightforward, Extendable WebApp to download Wattpad Books as EPUB Files.

Stars ⭐ are appreciated. Thanks!

Features

• ⚡ Lightweight Frontend.
• 🪙 Supports Authentication (Download paid stories from your account!)
• 🌐 API Support (Visit the /docs path on your instance for more.)
• 🐇 Fast Generation
• 🗃️ Caching, Ratelimit handling
• 🐳 Docker Support
• 🏷️ Generated books contain metadata, supported by Calibre and other E-Book Software.
• 📖 Plays well with E-Readers. (Send2Kindle, KOReader, ReMarkable, KOBO, Calibre Reader...)
• 💻 Easily Hackable. Extend with ease.

Still not convinced? Take a look some sample downloads.

Set Up

1. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/TheOnlyWayUp/WattpadDownloader/ && cd WattpadDownloader
2. Build the image: docker build . -t 'wp_downloader' (This takes about 2 Minutes)
3. Run the Container: docker run -d -p 5042:80 wp_downloader

That's it! You can use your instance at http://localhost:5042. API Documentation is available at http://localhost:5042/docs.

Concurrent Requests

The file-based cache struggles with concurrent requests (discussed in TheOnlyWayUp#2 and TheOnlyWayUp#22). If you're downloading a large number of books concurrently, switch to the Redis cache. Assuming you've built the image already:

1. Fill the .env file. Localhost will not work in a docker container unless host.docker.internal or a platform-specific variant is provided.

USE_CACHE=true
CACHE_TYPE=redis
REDIS_CONNECTION_URL=redis://username:password@host:port

2. Run the container and supply the .env file, docker run -d -p 5042:80 --env-file .env wp_downloader Alternatively, if Redis is running on localhost
3. Modify your .env file, replacing localhost with host.docker.internal. redis://localhost:6379 should become redis://host.docker.internal:6379. Then, start the container, docker run -d -p 5042:80 --env-file .env --add-host host.docker.internal:host-gateway wp_downloader

Development

• Developers, ensure you have wkhtmltopdf available on your PATH.
• Run wkhtmltopdf on your terminal, if you see "Reduced Functionality", run this script to install a fully featured compilation of `wkhtmltopdf.

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My thanks to aerkalov/ebooklib for a fast and well-documented package.

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