AI product readChrome extension that converts web novels and other web pages into EPUB e-book files for offline reading
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
Scrapes chapter content from 200+ supported web novel/fiction sitesParses table of contents pages to discover all chapter URLsDownloads and embeds images into EPUBGenerates properly formatted EPUB files with metadata (title, author, cover image)Built-in library for managing previously downloaded EPUBsSupports custom CSS selectors for unsupported sites via Default Parser
- 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
MonetizationNo 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.
I really needed this
Worked perfectly. Really appreciate it.
bruh instant book , love it
whoever made this is a genius. It does everything it claims and the interface is pretty easy to use loved it.
My majority suggestions are from lightnovelworld.com but the extension doesn't work properly on it, if anyone knows similar sites Let me know
Loved it! It is a must-have extension for web novel-readers! Can you please code in Google Play Books support? I get a lot of "Processing Failed" on a lot of epubs when I upload it on Google Play Books, but works fine when I generate .epub from EpubPress instead. Dunno why Google Play Books does that but tried to solve it manually, I tried using - Calibre's Fix HTML Files - Coverting to .mobi and then back to .epub etc - Generating a EPUB 3 - Tried to fix manually and checking on http://validator.idpf.org/ - etc... I think Google Play Books is kinda sensitive to the errors, and unused CSS Styling?? Dunno why. Thanks.
Just amazing. Thank you very much.
Loved it, its one of the best Addon ever. But comrademao really pisset me off when they requested to be disabled on thaire website, when thair web site is missing to many functionality already.
only those who struggled to copy paste individual chapters from web pages to word doc would understand how good this extension is. thank you for making this.
really helpful! thanks for creating this apps!