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Created June 28, 2013 07:03
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working on redownloading my gutenberg epub file to mobi files
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epub_to_mobi_gutenberg.rb
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
`find "/Users/freakhill/Dropbox/アプリ/gutenberg" -name "*.epub"`.split("\n").each do |f|
File.basename(f) =~ /^(.*)\.epub$/
title = $1
if File.exists? File.join(File.dirname(f), "#{title}.mobi")
puts "skipping #{$1}"
next
end
puts "process #{$1}? (push enter)"
STDIN.readline
`curl --silent "http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=#{title}" | grep -E '\"/ebooks/[[:digit:]]+'`.split("\n").each do |l|
l =~ /href="([^"]*)"/
puts "process #{$1}?"
case STDIN.readline
when /n/i # next, go to the next entry
puts "skipping to next entry for that query"
next
when /s/i # skip, go to the next book
puts "skipping to next epub book"
break
end
/href="([^"]*)"/.match(`curl --silent "http://www.gutenberg.org#{$1}" | grep -E "/send/dropbox.+kindle\.images"`) do |m|
`open "http://www.gutenberg.org#{m[1]}"`
end
end
end
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