libwebnovel

This crate deals with webnovels. You can see it as a way to access different webnovel hosting sites and be able to get their contents.

Since there are times we don't have Internet access, such as when riding some trains, downloading to disk in a convenient format seems the way to go.

Example

Say you want to create a software that will generate epubs from a given fiction url. This could be expressed by something like the following:

use libwebnovel::{Backend, Backends, Chapter};

fn main() {
    // Get the backend matching the given URL
    let fiction_backend = Backends::new("https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/21220/mother-of-learning").unwrap();
    // Get all the chapters of the webnovel
    let chapters = fiction_backend.get_chapters().unwrap();

    // write the resulting epub
    let epub_path = format!("{}.epub", fiction_backend.title().unwrap());
    let mut f = File::create(&epub_path).unwrap();
    write_chapters_to_epub(&mut f, &chapters).unwrap();

    // Since this code example also sort of serves as an integration test, remove the created file :p
    std::fs::remove_file(epub_path).unwrap();
}

fn write_chapters_to_epub(writer: &impl Write, chapters: &[Chapter]) -> Result<(), io::Error> {
    // do stuff to create the ebook here
    Ok(())
}

TODO

• Find a way to handle something other than text content:
  • images
  • tables
  • chapter headers ?
  • chapter footers ?
• Add more backends, such as libread.
• create a binary