Litero

Download stories from Literotica (Literotica.com) and save them locally as readable HTML web pages or beautifully formatted Text files, for later reading.

Getting Started

Make sure you have nodejs installed. Given that, issuing

npm install -g litero

should do the trick.

Features

• Download any literotica story URL.
• Get all the pages (depagerize) into a single file.
• Plain and simple text files.
• Readable HTML page
  • With Color scheme switcher - Light,Dark and Sepia
  • Single page HTML pages, no extra files/ Folder.
  • With link to the original story
  • Link to the Authors submissions.

Usage

1. From the terminal (command line), issue

   litero_getstory -u 'https://www.literotica.com/s/how-to-write-for-literotica'
   

   This will download the story and save it to the file how-to-write-for-literotica.txt in the current folder.

2. Save the story as a web page (HTML) locally.

   litero_getstory -u 'https://www.literotica.com/s/how-to-write-for-literotica' -e html

   This will download the story and save it to the file how-to-write-for-literotica.html in the current folder.

3. Save the story with custom name and format

   litero_getstory -u 'https://www.literotica.com/s/how-to-write-for-literotica' -f 'favorite_story' -e html

   This will save the story to a HTML file favorite_story.html to the current folder.

4. Just want a text file with custom name? Simply issue,

   litero_getstory -u 'https://www.literotica.com/s/how-to-write-for-literotica' -f 'favorite_story' -e txt

Examples

Litero comes with much more option flags, that you can pass along the command line.

Required

* `-u` or `--url`  Pass the URL(link) to the story.
  ```sh
  litero_getstory --url 'https://www.literotica.com/s/how-to-write-for-literotica'
  ```

Optional

* `-h` or `--help` Display Help and usage.
  ```sh
  litero_getstory --help
  ```
* `-f` or `--filename` Custom filename for the story to be saved.
  ```sh
  litero_getstory -u 'https://www.literotica.com/s/how-to-write-for-literotica' -f 'favorite_story'
  ```
* `-e` or `--format` Format of the saved file - Can be `html` or `txt` (default).
  ```sh
  litero_getstory -u 'https://www.literotica.com/s/how-to-write-for-literotica' -e html
  ```
* `--verbose` - Output all information going on behind the screens. Useful when something's not working right

Demo

Demonstration on usage and features. Also featured is the ability to switch reading color schemes ( Light, Dark and Sepia) on saved HTML pages.

P.S. Sorry about the colors though. Here is a video version if you're interested.

FAQ

1. Can this be used to download individual stories to my computer?

   • Yes.

2. Is this code anyway affiliated to literotica or literotica community?

   • No. This software/code is no way affiliated to literotica, any of the authors, or the community. This is merely a work of a fan.

3. Can this be used to rip all the stories in literotica/literotica category?

   • No. Kindly be respectful to the efforts of the authors and literotica.

4. Can you modify this to do insert some new feature here that i want?

   • That depends. Drop me a mail, lets figure it out.

But why?

• Coding Fun, Nothing else.
• Ah. Waitt aaaa minute.. What are you doing here BTW?
• Actually - It is one of my favorite sites.Being frustated with the site's poorly readable color scheme, I decided to make it pleasant for reading with JS(using greasemonkey) and CSS. When some of my favorite authors took their stories down without warning, This project was born.

Acknowledgments

• NodeJS and all modules used.
• Literotica.
• Individual Authors on literotica.

License

See LICENSE