Readers of web novels on sites like Baka-Tsuki, Archive of Our Own, FanFiction.net, Royal Road, and hundreds of other sites cannot easily download content for offline reading. This extension scrapes chapters, downloads images, and packages everything into a standard EPUB file.

1. User browses to a supported web novel/table-of-contents page 2. Clicks the WebToEpub extension icon in the Chrome toolbar 3. Extension auto-detects the site and populates chapter list and metadata 4. User selects chapters to include and optionally adjusts settings (cover image, author, etc.) 5. Clicks 'Pack EPUB' button 6. Extension fetches all selected chapter content and images 7. Generated EPUB file is downloaded to the user's downloads directory

Target users: Web novel/light novel readers / Fan fiction readers / Users who want offline access to web-published fiction

No suspicious files requiring further inspection; all 'suspicious' files in static analysis are false positives (metadata verification, SVG assets, progress bar UI)
Some destination sites may require user login for paid/premium content — extension handles this gracefully by excluding inaccessible chapters
The extension has 200+ site parsers making exhaustive review impractical; sampled representative parsers (GenesiStudio, StellarRealm, Kakao) for paid/login signals

Monetization

No paid features detected

The extension is completely free and open-source (GitHub: github.com/dteviot/WebToEpub). No payment UI, no Stripe/billing integrations, no subscription APIs, no upgrade prompts, and no license key validation found anywhere in the codebase. The 'premium' keyword hits in GenesiStudioParser and StellarRealmParser refer to detecting premium chapters on destination sites — the extension marks them as isIncludeable: false and excludes them, but does not gate any extension functionality behind payment.

Confidence: 95
Payment platform: --
Source: AI / High
Login required: No
Reason: The extension itself does not require any login or account to use its core workflow (browse to page → click icon → Pack EPUB → download file). All 'auth' keyword matches are false positives referring to 'Author' fields in metadata. The two 'login' hits in messages.json are: (1) an option label 'Download raw (no login)' and (2) a warning message about needing to log into *destination sites* that return 403 errors — not an extension login requirement. The KakaoParser login code (line 15) is explicitly disabled ('disable doing authentication, seems to have changed' at line 27). The cookies permission is used to forward browser cookies to destination sites for Cloudflare-protected content, not for extension authentication.

Permission risk

High-risk permissions

This estimate uses declared permissions and host permissions to assess access scope and sensitivity.

扩展能力较强：cookies、downloads、scripting、storage
主机权限覆盖范围较宽

Publisher

dteviot

David Teviotdale

Email: [email protected]
Phone: --
Address: 7 Budgen St Mt Roskill Auckland 1041 New Zealand

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