NOTE: Any use of this project is solely at the end user's discretion. The author(s) claim no responsibility for end user's actions with this tool.
A lightweight screen-scraper to generate pdf renderings of chapters / novels from royalroadl.com.
NOTE: this is just a basic screen-scraper. If there are significant changes to RRL's DOM then this will break. Should be pretty simple to fix though.
There are a lot of niceties that could be implemented. Additional query 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.
npm install -g rrl-scraper
The CLI should now be accessible via command rrl-scraper
For general usage run command rrl-scraper help.
Both id's can be found in RRL's url.
rrl-scraper fiction <fictionID>- Generates a compiled PDF of all chapters for the given fiction.http://royalroadl.com/fiction/9179- 9179 is the fictionID
rrl-scraper chapter <chapterID>- Generates a PDF of a single chapter.http://royalroadl.com/fiction/chapter/75087- 75087 is the chapterID
Feel free to make improvements!
git clone https://github.com/dmk255/RoyalRoadL-CLI-Scraper.git
cd RoyalRoadL-CLI-Scraper && npm link