Run a perl script to follow all the links, and dump each page with lynx. You might even be able to coax lynx into following the links, I don't know.
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 20:39:46 -0700 Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 04 Apr 2003 17:39:19 -0800 > "Net Llama!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 04/04/03 17:35, Collins Richey wrote: > > > Are there any generalized utility programs that will grap a web > > > page, extract the text, convert to a text (or fill-in-the-blanks) > > > file for printing? > > > > > > I'm getting ready to work on some python code to do that for > > > printing the Slackware users' manual, but it would be nice to have a > > > real tool. > > > > html2jpeg creates jpegs (basically screenshots) of webpages: > > http://freshmeat.net/projects/html2jpg/ > > > > html2ps converts html to postscript > > http://freshmeat.net/projects/html2ps/ > > > > html2pdf > > http://freshmeat.net/projects/html2pdf/ > > > > Thanks, > > Now that I've looked at the problem a little more closely, I probably > need more that this. The root of what I want to retrieve is > www.slackware.com/book which is a php beast. What I'm looking to do is > > 1. Retrieve the base page and follow all Next links, strip out all the > extra crap on each page, retain and format the text, and store the > result for printing. > > 2. I could do this with simple python tools for a normal html site, but > the [EMAIL PROTECTED] slackware site doesn't respond to simple http requests; even > the links are php commands. A browser, of course, can wade through this > with ease, but I don't want to have to save each individual page as html > just to format it. > > 3. All this work because the Slack folks don't provide a printable > version. > > Any thoughts? > > -- > Collins - Slack 9.0 EXT3 > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Alan K. Jackson | To see a World in a Grain of Sand | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
