get-novel.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# this script will download all available chapters
# of the light novel starting from a given chapter
# get the novel id from the website
# example :  888141268 is the id of:
# this hero is overpowred but overly cautious
#
novel="$1"
chapter="$2"
[[ -z "$chapter" ]] && chapter=1

if ! [[ -d "$novel" ]] ; then
    mkdir "$novel"
fi

function CURL (){
    userAgent="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:48.0) "
    userAgent+="Gecko/20100101 Firefox/48.0"
    curl -s -A "$userAgent" "$@"
}

while true ; do
    echo "getting chapter $chapter"
    echo -en "\e[1A"
    data=$(
        CURL "https://bestlightnovel.com/novel_$novel/chapter_$chapter"|
        sed -n '/<div id="vung_doc" class="vung_doc">/,/<\/div>/p' |
        sed 's/<div id="vung_doc" class="vung_doc">//' |
        sed 's/<p>/\n\n/g'|sed 's/<[^>]*>//g'|fmt -w 75
    )
    (( ${#data} <= 5 )) && exit
    echo "$data" > "$novel/chapter_$chapter.txt"
    chapter=$(($chapter+1))
    sleep 7
done