rdeits / wpepub

Convert a wordpress blog into an epub book

This is a simple set of scripts I put together to generate an ePub edition from a wordpress blog, specifically http://parahumans.wordpress.com/. To run it, just do rake in the root directory, and it will assemble the final book as build/out.epub.

Requirements:

• python 2.7
• BeautifulSoup
• unidecode
• txt2epub
• curl
• pandoc
• docutils
• ninja2

wpepub's Issues

Index out of bounds

I did a quick pull and installed dependencies. All seem to be working an import correctly when I open them in a python shell, yet when I do a rake, here's the output:

~/WPepub
$ rake
python scrape.py
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 178 100 178 0 0 1058 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 1186
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "scrape.py", line 29, in
WP_scrape()
File "scrape.py", line 13, in WP_scrape
categories = soup.find_all(attrs={"class":"widget_categories"})[0]
IndexError: list index out of range
rake aborted!

Any thoughts? I don't know enough python to have a crack at it.

Warnings while running script that make it into finished book

When running the script, I get the following message (multiple times):

:328: (WARNING/2) Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
and
:490: (WARNING/2) Inline strong start-string without end-string.

This makes it info the finished book as well. Any idea what could be causing this?