Shell script that reads a file with URLs of single literotica stories and stores them as PDFs locally. Authors are often known to delete their stories, it is best to have a local copy.
- wkhtmltopdf
- perl-exiftool
- pdf-poppler-utils
- recode
- GNU coreutils (
cut,rev,grep,curl,xargs, ...)
/path/to/literotica.sh /path/to/url/file /path/to/download/directory [number of stories to download concurrently (default=1)]
urlfile should be literotica links separated by newline :
https://www.literotica.com/s/...
https://www.literotica.com/s/...
https://www.literotica.com/s/...
...
- Stores stories as pdf.
- Works for illustrated stories.
- Has an inbuilt adblocker. Removes ads and cam links, keeping just the story and related details.
- If a story is multipaged, link to the first page only, in that case all pages will be downloaded into one file.
- Can be used in conjunction with tor to anonymize.
- Is POSIX compliant (tested with
dash). - Includes all comments from the story at the end of the pdf.
- This script will not sort stories by category, it will just dump them into one folder.
- This script does not have a help menu or a man page.
- This script will not throttle based on CPU power or internet connection, the concurrency argument is to be provided manually.
- This script does not store in any other format, only PDF.
- This script has no inbuilt way to stop the comments from being attached at the end.
- This script does not work for multi-chaptered stories.
- This script does not preserve files with the same name. If two stories have the same title, first one is overwritten.
- This script does not include the author's biography in the file.
- This script does not include options to change font size or theme. Original font size and themes are used.
This script is not posix compliant.