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How can I do blog to epub on Manjaro Linux or Firefox? (programming.dev)
submitted 3 months ago by CoderSupreme@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
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I’m trying to convert a blog into an EPUB and keep running into issues with existing tools.

I first tried blog2epub, but it fails during parsing with:

lxml.etree.XMLSyntaxError: Opening and ending tag mismatch: meta line 10 and head, line 17, column 8

I then tried WebToEpub on Firefox, providing:

  • Content selector: .article-content
  • Chapter title selector: .title

It generated an EPUB, but the file wouldn’t open in any reader.

What I’m looking for is a tool where I can point to a blog’s base URL, define CSS selectors for the article title and body, and have it automatically fetch all entries and create one chapter per post. Or something similar.

Does anyone know of a reliable tool, script, or workflow that does this well on Linux?

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[-] mjr@infosec.pub 3 points 3 months ago

No, but could you feed the website with mismatched tags through something like tidy first? That error looks like maybe it's expecting xhtml and getting html. Maybe the site is declaring one, then using the other. Lots of software won't care because it's a pretty common error, but some panics.

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