How To Get Books From Wattpad In PDF Format?

I just figured out how to do this last week… On the Wattpad desktop version, you can print a chapter by clicking the 3 dots above it and then clicking ‘Print’. You can then change your printer to ‘Save as PDF’ and voila! It’s kind of a pain to print out an entire book, but chapter by chapter it’s doable. On mobile, this is kind of a pain to do but I was able to switch to the desktop version of the site in my browser. There are apps like Wattpad Downloader but I’m pretty sure those are sketchy. Printing it via the ‘print’ function is really your best bet. Also, please don’t share a writer’s work without their permission.

I used a Python script that I found on GitHub once. That was terrifying. I had to input my Wattpad login info (very bad idea) and it would download all of the chapters of a story. I ran it off of a virtual machine that I had set up on my computer, because I didn't want any potential problems to affect my main computer. In the end, it sort of worked, but the output was a jumbled mess of text files that were not at all organized by chapter. In the time that it took me to get the script to work and to organize the output, I could have just read the whole story online. Unless you're a programmer, I would strongly advise against using the GitHub repo for downloading Wattpad stories. While it is the most powerful method available, it has the potential for many security problems and it can also stop working at any time for no apparent reason if Wattpad decides to reorganize their website.

To save a story to PDF, there is a very simple way to do this by using the desktop version of Wattpad and printing the story using your browser's print function (usually Ctrl+P or Cmd+P) and saving it as PDF. If the story is very long, it will likely be saved as a PDF with each chapter as a separate section, which can be annoying to have to click through each one, but there is not much else to do about this.

You can use third-party tools to download Wattpad stories, such as WebToEpub (a browser extension) that converts Wattpad stories to EPUB files. You can then use free online converters to convert the EPUB files to PDF files. Just be careful because downloading stories from Wattpad may go against the Terms of Service if you’re not the owner of the story and you plan on redistributing the story. This trick is best for personal use and downloading your own stories.

As a last resort, stories can be scraped by Python scripts but this would likely get you banned from Wattpad in addition to being obviously against TOS. Printing a story to PDF is far safer, and if someone has written a story you’d like to read offline and it’s not your own work, you could perhaps comment to ask their permission to download a PDF copy – some authors are perfectly happy for you to do this as long as you aren’t sharing it with anyone else.