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.
Absolutely genius, it works great. I don't understand how it can possibly remove the "Watermarks" that get added to chapters for seemingly any website it extracts the text from, like: 'Visit www.[example].com for [blah blah blah]" or any variation that may pop up in a chapter, or the hidden ones like on Royal Road. The range of websites it works on is crazy. Genius and, hopefully, eternal.
Funktioniert perfekt.
One of my most used extentions cant live without it been using it for 4 to 5 years to read webnovels with my text to speech app. Hopefully it'll start working with wtr-lab.com again soon
Очень удобно и продумано
La uso para descargar todos mis fanfics favoritos de wattpad desde hace años, lo amo, ahora los tengo impresos en mi biblioteca física, es maravilloso. Agradezco la invención de esta página, es un poco difícil de usar como principiante (en mi opinión) pero luego le agarras el hilo entre botón y botón que tocas. Muy personalizable .
Absolute genius of a software. This extension works. It just works. It doesn't treat you like a 5 yo, it doesn't treat you like a boomer. It doesn't have any tutorial, it's not ultra simple to the point of being unusable. You could save ebooks in 3 clicks, or you could do advanced stuff with dozens of settings.
great extensions can you fix this web site https://wtr-lab.com/en
Works great, thanks for making this!
Epubs copied from NovelPia show up empty
Спасибо,очень удобно