Translate Any Web Novel Without Copy-Pasting
Reading web novels in a language you don't speak usually means a lot of switching tabs, copying paragraphs, pasting them into a translator, and losing all the context along the way. The new Lexilit Chrome extension removes that friction. With a single click, you can capture the text on any webpage and send it straight to your Lexilit translation workspace, where your AI agents, glossaries, and translation presets take over.
The extension is built for readers and translators who work with serialized web fiction, light novels, and online chapters — the kind of content that lives across JJWXC, Qidian, Syosetu, NovelUpdates listings, fan-translation sites, and dozens of other reading platforms. Instead of fighting your browser, you just click and translate.
One-click capture: Open the Lexilit extension on any page you want to translate. It grabs the readable content and drops it into a translation project — no manual copying, no formatting headaches. Try Lexilit free →
What the Lexilit Chrome Extension Does
The extension is a bridge between the open web and Lexilit's AI-powered novel translation engine. Where the web platform already handles context-aware translation, automatic glossary generation, and custom agents, the extension simply makes it effortless to feed new content in.
- Capture any webpage: Works on web novels, serialized chapters, blog posts, and articles across most reading sites
- One-click send to Lexilit: Captured content lands in your translation workspace, ready for your agents
- Works with your agents & glossaries: Everything you capture uses the same custom agents and terminology libraries you already trust
- No copy-pasting: Skip the manual extraction step entirely — the extension reads the page for you
- Free to install: Available now on the Chrome Web Store
Because captured content flows into the same workspace you already use, character names, locations, and invented terms stay consistent across every source you translate. A name you established in chapter one is automatically applied whether that chapter came from a manual import or a one-click capture.
How to Install and Use the Extension
Getting started takes under a minute. Here's the full workflow:
Step 1: Install from the Chrome Web Store
Open the Lexilit listing on the Chrome Web Store and click "Add to Chrome". Confirm the install prompt, and the Lexilit icon appears in your browser toolbar. The extension is verified and free.
Step 2: Sign in to your Lexilit account
Click the extension icon and sign in with your Lexilit account. New here? You can create a free account in seconds — you'll get free words to translate your first chapter at no cost.
Step 3: Capture a webpage
Navigate to any web novel, chapter, or article you want to translate. Open the extension and click capture. The extension reads the readable content of the page and prepares it for translation.
Step 4: Translate with your agents
The captured content lands in your Lexilit workspace as a new project or chapter. Pick the AI agent and target language you want, apply your glossary, and start translating. From there, everything works exactly like content you imported manually — real-time preview, inline editing, and export to PDF, EPUB, or TXT.
Pro tip: If you translate the same series regularly, create a dedicated agent and glossary for it. Every new chapter you capture will automatically stay consistent with the ones before it.
Why a Browser Extension Beats Manual Copy-Paste
The manual workflow is familiar to anyone who reads web novels in a foreign language: open a chapter, select all, copy, paste into a translator, lose the formatting, lose the context, repeat for the next chapter, and accept that character names will be spelled three different ways across ten chapters.
The Lexilit extension solves the problems that generic browser translators and copy-paste workflows can't:
- Context across chapters: Generic translators treat each page in isolation. Lexilit remembers your whole story, so chapter 50 knows what happened in chapter 1.
- Consistent terminology: Your glossary ensures the same character is translated the same way every time, regardless of where the text came from.
- Your translation style: Custom AI agents let you control tone and voice — something no one-click page translator can offer.
- A real workspace: Captured content becomes a project you can edit, export, and revisit, not a throwaway translation box.
In short, the extension isn't a translator bolted onto your browser — it's a fast on-ramp into a full novel translation platform.
Which Browsers and Sites Are Supported?
The extension is published on the Chrome Web Store, which means it installs on Chrome and every major Chromium-based browser, including Edge, Brave, Arc, and Vivaldi. Firefox and Safari support are on the roadmap.
On the content side, the extension works on most public webpages with readable text — web novels, serialized chapters, light novel sites, blogs, and articles. Sites with aggressive anti-scraping protections or unusual JavaScript rendering may capture less cleanly, but the vast majority of popular reading platforms work out of the box.
Privacy: What the Extension Sees
Browser extensions deserve scrutiny, so here's exactly how this one works. The Lexilit extension only reads a page when you explicitly trigger it. It does not track your browsing history, read pages in the background, or send any data anywhere until you click capture.
Once you capture a page, that content is handled under the same privacy protections as anything else you translate with Lexilit. Your work is yours — full details are in our Privacy Policy.
Start Translating in One Click
The Lexilit Chrome extension is live and free to install. If you read or translate web novels, it removes the single most tedious part of the process — getting text into your translator in the first place.
- Install free from the Chrome Web Store
- Sign in with your Lexilit account (or create one free)
- Capture any webpage with one click
- Translate with your agents, glossaries, and presets
- Export to PDF, EPUB, or TXT
Ready to stop copy-pasting and start translating? Get started with Lexilit and add the extension today.