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# Webiblo - web to ebook project

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## Overview

Webiblo is a project to convert web sites to ebooks.

You can convert Getting Real web data to mobipcoket format like this.

$ webiblo.pl http://mizzy.org/webiblo/data/Getting_Real.json

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## JSON data format

JSON data format to convert web data to ebook is like this:

{
"title" : "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs",
"authors" : [
"Harold Abelson",
"Gerald Jay Sussman",
"Julie Sussman"
],
"cover_image" : "http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/cover.jpg",
"content_xpath" : "//div[@class=\"content\"]", # Optional
"exclude_xpath" : "//div[@class=\"navigation\"]", # Optional
"chapters" : [
{
"title" : "Foreword",
"uri" : "http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-5.html#%_chap_Temp_2"
},
{
"title" : "1 Building Abstractions with Procedures",
"uri" : "http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-9.html#%_chap_1",
"sections" : [
"title" : "1.1 The Elements of Programming",
"uri" : "http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-10.html#%_sec_1.1"
"subsections" : [
{
"title" : "1.1.1 Expressions",
"uri" : "http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-10.html#%_sec_1.1.1"
},
]
]
}
]
}

These are the examples.

* http://mizzy.org/webiblo/data/Getting_Real.json
* http://mizzy.org/webiblo/data/SICP.json
* http://mizzy.org/webiblo/data/SmoothCoffeeScript.json

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## Try your own JSON data

webiblo.pl takes JSON data from STDIN, so you can run webiblo.pl like this:

$ cat data.json | webiblo.pl

## Share your JSON data

JSON data are put on [gh-pages branch](https://github.com/mizzy/webiblo/tree/gh-pages) and shared on [GitHub Pages](http://mizzy.org/webiblo/).

If you create a JSON data for webiblo, please send me pull requests.

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## TODO

* Support formats other than mobipocket. (eg. EPUB3)
* Search JSON catalog from CLI.