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Wutpad downloads and converts Wattpad books into Epub files you can use with your favorite ebook reader.

• Multilingual source code as an example to young developers.
• Vue frontend with Python3 Flask backend.
• Multithreading for better performance.
• Automatically deletes files older than 7 days.

Wattpad doesn't offer an option to download a book. This forces you to remain online while reading, and use wattpad's application to access the stories.

Having those stories in epub format allows storing them as a backup, offline reading and self publication.

These are the bare minimum requirements for hosting this.

• Python3 - you know what's this ;) - A general-purpose programming language
• Node.js - cmon don't know this? - Javascript runtime
• NPM - Node's packagae manager (inbuilt)
• PIP - Python's package manager

$ git clone https://github.com/divy-work/wattpad-downloader
$ cd wattpad-downloader
$ npm install
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

# Now, we build the Vue frontend
$ npm run build

# Finally, let's start the server
$ FLASK_APP=server.py python3 server.py