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| # Go to http://www.baen.com/series_list.asp?letter=H and find the book ID for the one you | |
| # want, and replace the book variable with it. Run this program, and add the resulting | |
| # index.html to Calibre, which can then convert it to a .mobi. Finally, email the .mobi | |
| # to your Kindle and enjoy. | |
| require 'capybara' | |
| require 'capybara/dsl' | |
| require 'capybara/webkit' | |
| require 'fileutils' | |
| book = "0743435710" | |
| FileUtils.mkdir_p("#{book}") | |
| include Capybara::DSL | |
| Capybara.current_driver = :webkit | |
| Capybara.string(page) | |
| Capybara.default_selector = :css | |
| def chapter_title | |
| find("h1").text | |
| end | |
| base = "http://www.baenebooks.com/chapters/#{book}/" | |
| visit "#{base}/#{book}_toc.htm" | |
| chapters = all("a").reject { |link| | |
| %w{Back Next}.include?(link.text) | |
| }.collect { |link| | |
| { title: link.text, href: link["href"] } | |
| } | |
| book_title = chapter_title | |
| File.open("#{book}/index.html", "w") do |index| | |
| index << "<html><body><h1>#{book_title}</h1><ul>" | |
| chapter_number = 0 | |
| chapters.each do |chapter| | |
| visit "#{base}/#{chapter[:href]}" | |
| print "Chapter #{chapter_number+1}/#{chapters.size}\r" | |
| index << %Q{<li><a href="chapter_#{chapter_number}.html">#{chapter_title}</a></li>} | |
| # I redownload with curl here because Capybara was having trouble with non-ASCII characters. | |
| %x{curl -s "#{base}/#{chapter[:href]}" > #{book}/chapter_#{chapter_number}.html} | |
| chapter_number += 1 | |
| end | |
| index << "</ul></body></html>" | |
| end | |
| puts "" |
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