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gabalese / annot2html.py

Last active December 16, 2015 20:19

Brain-dead simple utility to dump a HTML list out of a Sony Reader annot. db. (Made on a Mac, so it look for a /Volumes/READER mount. I'm way too lazy to amend that to accept a path argv[n])

	#! /usr/bin/env python
	# Brain-dead simple utility to dump a list of annotations from a Sony Reader .db
	# Usage: $ python annot2html.py [int number of annot to fetch]

	import sys
	import sqlite3 as sql
	import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

	# Mac-path!
	file_db = sql.connect('/Volumes/READER/Sony_Reader/database/books.db')

gabalese / tweet.py

Created June 3, 2013 15:04

Quick and dirty script to post a tweet from the CLI interface. Requires twitter library.

	#! /usr/bin/env python3
	from twitter import *
	import os, sys

	CONSUMER_KEY = <your_consumer_key>
	CONSUMER_SECRET <your_consumer_secret_key>

	MY_TWITTER_CREDS = os.path.expanduser('~/.token_cache')
	if not os.path.exists(MY_TWITTER_CREDS):
	try:

gabalese / attributealtfield.py

Last active December 21, 2015 04:29

Make a list of every img alt attribute in htmls and print it to stdout

	#! /usr/bin/env python
	# file: attributealtfield.py
	# Make a list of every img alt attribute in htmls and print to stdout
	# Usage: from the command line, python attributealtfield.py <epub.epub>

	from __future__ import print_function
	import os
	import sys
	import zipfile as ZIP

gabalese / previewbuilder.py

Last active December 22, 2015 00:48

Raw script to build a quick and dirty preview from an existing full EPUB. Useful to send out previews of existing ebooks.

	#! /usr/bin/env python

	# by Gabriele Alese <[email protected]> / http://www.alese.it
	# Released in Public Domain where applicable: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
	# ***
	# REQUIREMENTS:
	# this script makes use of pyepub 2.0.9
	# download here: https://github.com/gabalese/pyepub
	# ***
	# USAGE:

gabalese / simplewatermark.py

Created September 11, 2013 15:11

Basic example of how simple it is to add (slightly) less obvious watermarks to EPUB files with pyepub library and stepic

	#! /usr/bin/env python

	import os
	from pyepub import EPUB # see https://github.com/gabalese/pyepub
	from StringIO import StringIO
	from PIL import Image
	import stepic

	epub = EPUB("startepub.epub","a")

gabalese / html_splitter.py

Last active December 26, 2015 11:49

Splits a HTML file into several smaller files, given a tag and a (optional) class name. Also fixes links in the same document.

	#! /usr/bin/env python

	try:
	import lxml.etree as ET
	except ImportError:
	from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
	from StringIO import StringIO
	import sys

	pub_id = "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"

gabalese / checkisbn.py

Last active August 29, 2015 13:56

Script to check the formal validity of a given ISBN-10 or ISBN-13.

	#! /usr/bin/env python

	import sys
	import re

	def is_valid(isbn):
	sum = 0
	isbn = re.sub(r"[-–—\s]", "", isbn)
	# in case of isbn13
	if len(isbn) == 13 and isbn[0:3] == "978" or "979": # is it a ISBN? Thanks @librarythingtim

gabalese / sortncx.py

Created March 6, 2014 14:35

Python script to sort a NCX with no gaps in playOrder.

	#! /usr/bin/env python

	from lxml import etree as ET
	import zipfile as ZIP
	import sys
	import os

	namespaces = { "opf":"http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf",
	"dc":"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/",
	"ncx":"http://www.daisy.org/z3986/2005/ncx/"

gabalese / russian_roulette.py

Created July 23, 2016 12:22

A simple game of russian roulette played with the bbc:microbit. Reset the device when you "die"

	from microbit import *
	import random

	choices = [1,2,3,4,5,6]
	death_number = random.choice(choices)
	click_counter = 0

	while True:
	display.show(Image.ASLEEP)

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