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Create epub from a list of URLs, using mozilla/readability to extract just the text
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| #!/usr/bin/node | |
| // Install dependencies: npm install @mozilla/readability jsdom got argparse | |
| // Usage: node mkebook.js --title Test url1 url2 > test.epub | |
| const fs = require('fs').promises; | |
| const { spawn } = require('child_process'); | |
| const { JSDOM } = require('jsdom'); | |
| const { Readability } = require('@mozilla/readability'); | |
| const { got } = require("got"); | |
| const { ArgumentParser } = require('argparse'); | |
| const parser = new ArgumentParser(); | |
| parser.add_argument('-t', '--title', { required: true }); | |
| parser.add_argument('urls', { nargs: '*' }); | |
| async function main(args) { | |
| const { title, urls } = args; | |
| const files = await Promise.all(urls.map(async (url, i) => { | |
| const filename = (i + 1).toString().padStart(3, '0') + '.html'; | |
| const { body } = await got(url); | |
| const dom = new JSDOM(body); | |
| Array.from(dom.window.document.querySelectorAll("span")).filter(s => dom.window.getComputedStyle(s).display === "none").forEach(s => s.parentNode.removeChild(s)) | |
| const { title, content } = new Readability(dom.window.document).parse(); | |
| const doc = new JSDOM('<html><head><title></title></head><body><h1></h1><div></div></body></html>'); | |
| doc.window.document.querySelector('title').textContent = title; | |
| doc.window.document.querySelector('h1').textContent = title; | |
| doc.window.document.querySelector('div').innerHTML = content; | |
| await fs.writeFile(filename, doc.serialize()); | |
| return filename; | |
| })); | |
| await new Promise((resolve, reject) => { | |
| spawn('pandoc', [`-Mtitle=${title}`, '-t', 'epub', '-o', '-', ...files], { stdio: 'inherit' }) | |
| .on('error', reject) | |
| .on('exit', resolve); | |
| }); | |
| await Promise.all(files.map(file => fs.unlink(file))); | |
| } | |
| main(parser.parse_args()).catch(console.error); |
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