https://github.com/thlorenz/webtoink

Downloads and converts a properly set up Html book or a blog into mobi format
https://github.com/thlorenz/webtoink

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Downloads and converts a properly set up Html book or a blog into mobi format

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/thlorenz/webtoink
• Owner: thlorenz
• License: other
• Created: 2012-01-23T03:52:05.000Z (almost 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2012-05-17T12:25:53.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-02T01:42:01.537Z (about 2 months ago)
• Language: Haskell
• Homepage:
• Size: 547 KB
• Stars: 40
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 7
• Open Issues: 5
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  • Readme: Readme.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Web to Mobi converter

Given a url to an online book or a blog it will convert it into proper mobi format to be read on the kindle.

## Requirements

- [Haskell Platform](http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/) (at least for now)

- [KindleGen tool](http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000234621)

## Getting started

As a good example to see WebToInk in action try converting the [Real World Haskell book](http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/).

After cloning this repo:

    cd WebToInk

    cabal install

    cd src

    runghc Converter.hs -c http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/ -f ../books

Note: at this point the KindleGen tool will have to be run manually, in the

future this will be part of the automated process.

    cd ../books/Real\ World\ Haskell/

    kindlegen book.opf -o Real\ World\ Haskell/.mobi

Find some other online books to convert [here](./BooksToConvert.md)

## How it works

- pulls down all html pages, images and css files

- arranges them in proper folder structure and generates book.opf and toc.ncx files 

- runs KindleGen tool in order to generate the mobi file

- sample folder structure and generated files can be found at the [Learn You a

  Haskell](https://github.com/igstan/learn-you-a-haskell-kindle) project, which

accomplishes a similar goal, except not automatically and only for one book.