Show HN: Build a Kindle book of PG's essays

I did a script like this a while back, and asked pg before releasing it. He asked me not to do it so I refrained.<p>edit: just checked my email, i actually asked him about putting up the epub, not the script. but same difference I suppose.

Impressive how short this can be with the right libraries: 40 lines of code to scrape an index, download the pages, get the right parts, and make them an ebook.<p>However, wouldn't it be more efficient if one person would do this, and publish it? Now everybody has to scrape PG's site. Thanks for the code tho!<p>What is the licence on the articles?

Use lxml.html instead of BeautifulSoup

I tried running it and it chokes on "Chapter 1 of ANSI Common Lisp". I think that's due to the link being a txt file rather than html, causing an exception to be thrown: "Error: URL doesn't exist".

Those essays are available for free on his site. If you want to scrap it for yourself, you're in a grey zone, but it will be fine. But hey, authors deserve respect : if an author wants to publish an ebook, he will.

isn't kindle's format different from epub?

Could you upload result - epub file?

Ola, this is brilliant!

Super cool stuff. :-)