Go to web page you want to extract the story from.Load the Extension in the folder 'plugin' into Chrome.Using the Code or 'How to load an Extension into Chrome'įor those of you who just want to use the code, the basic steps are: How to add a parser for a site you like.How to pack the web pages into an EPUB file.How to get Chrome to fetch additional web pages automatically.How to use Chrome to examine a web page to figure out the author, title and list of chapters of a story, then write JavaScript to extract the information.How to get your extension to read the HTML of a web page in a Chrome tab.The basics of building a Chrome extension.

So, I've used that to to create a 'Save to EPUB' plug-in, and I'm now going to show you how it's done, so you can use it, and extend it to handle the sites you like. Well, it turns out that it's possible to write 'extensions' for Google's Chrome browser, which allow you to add additional functionality to Chrome. So you need to go between the web pages to read the story.Ĭonsequently, when after reading the first chapter of one of these stories, I've often wished that I could press a single button on my browser and have the whole story saved to an EPUB file in my downloads directory, ready to copy to my EPUB viewer. Second, the individual chapters of each story (and the good stories almost always have multiple chapters) are on multiple web pages.

Firstly, because they're online sites, you need to be on-line to view them. Unfortunately, most of these sites have two minor drawbacks. If you're like me, you will have discovered that there are many sites on the Internet that have fiction that is free to read.

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