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Home Page: https://epub.press
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
📦 Clients for building books with EpubPress.
Home Page: https://epub.press
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Hi,
Thanks for this great chrome extension.
If the website uses the webp images format with chrome, there will be no images in the ebook. I think the backend is not able to fetch this type of image.
Example page:
https://www.republik.ch/2018/07/24/zimbabwes-geschichte-zeigt-ein-duesteres-bild
Example url from chrome:
https://cdn.republik.space/s3/republik-assets/github/republik/article-zimbabwe-und-der-hoellenhund/images/28f7748f4e791665e88a0a324c212fc3c8d72a2b.jpeg.webp?size=3600x2328&resize=3000x
Same image when using firefox:
https://cdn.republik.space/s3/republik-assets/github/republik/article-zimbabwe-und-der-hoellenhund/images/28f7748f4e791665e88a0a324c212fc3c8d72a2b.jpeg?size=3600x2328&resize=3000x
My workaround for now is to use firefox for epub generation.
I'm trying to use EpubPressJs
(talking to a local server hosted on my machine) to download articles, but I'm getting blocked right off the bat on some websites with super aggressive firewalls.
The same thing was happening when I was using Beautiful Soup
(Python scraper), and just changing the user-agent to
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36
Solved the problem. How can I do the same on EpubPress? Please bear in mind that I'm not a programmer, so if you could ELI5, it'd be very very much appreciated!
P.S. @haroldtreen thank you for building such an awesome application! I can't put into words how awesome it is to read properly formatted articles offline :')
Sometimes various images are missing from generated ebooks. I encountered this while trying to convert all of the chapters/sections of Tempest: Geometries of Play to an epub. After opening all pages in tabs, selecting them in epubpress, and generating, some images are present in the output but some are not. Which ones are present or missing varies on each attempt. I've seen this issue occur with several different websites. Perhaps epubpress is exceeding some servers' maximum concurrent connections or something so some images timeout?
I am trying to download multiple pages (chapters) from the same webpages, but whenever I add more than one page to the potential epub, pressing the download button doesn't do anything
Add a field for Cover Image url.
EpubPress could then download the image and use that instead of the default.
Currently, every book is given the exact same cover image. This makes it difficult to distinguish books from each other.
Solution: Add the title to each cover image so that books are distinguishable by the cover.
Hey there, What an excellent add-on! I found it yesterday on the Mozilla site.
I see that content I create from an article in Hebrew comes out aligned to the left rather than the right, which I guess means that the directionality of the text is not extracted and preserved from the DOM when creating the epub. I didn't dive into the code yet, but I bet it should be an easy one to fix if the code already looks for other local and global settings like it for indentations and the like.
In case I can't find the place and submit a PR (JS is not my forte, I'm an infrastructure guy), I'm also leaving here this item, in case anyone else can pick this up.
Thanks!
When converting content that contains indented text, for things such as lines of code, the resulting ePub removes all the indenting and left aligns the lines of code. This makes it hard to read the code examples.
Tested in both Waterfox 56 and Firefox 66. Same behavior in both. Uninstalled and reinstalled. Same behavior afterwards.
When EpubPress gets stuck "fetching images" it fails to produce and epub, and on checking, it shows it trying "fetching images" again without the usual EpubPress menu.
when I save file ( send to kindle email) I got unknown title
Tested in WF 56 and FF 66. Can't use debugging instructions, since they're for Chrome.
Omits almost all text: http://www.kolumbus.fi/taglarsson/dokumentit/sov.htm
Splits across pages: http://www.kolumbus.fi/taglarsson/dokumentit/sovburo.htm
I have used EpubPress for months now on Firefox and never had any problems using tilde ~ in a filename. But I recently switched to the Brave browser (Chromium-based) and I found the EpubPress hangs if I use a tilde ~ in a filename. It gets all the way to "Done! Pressing Your Epub" with the progress bar at 100% but it never shows success. It times out after a long time (maybe 5 minutes?) and says "Failed Download timed out". Following your debugging tips, I found this error: Unchecked runtime.lastError: Invalid filename.
If I do everything exactly the same but leave the tilde ~ out of the filename, it works normally. And it also works in Firefox even with a tilde ~. I have only seen the problem with Brave and tilde ~ in filename.
OS is Windows 10.
Safari downloads the file as Unknown. You then must manually add the file extension (eg. .epub or .mobi)
Must I add the file extension after the download is completed?
But building book generating web-scrapers with NodeJs would be so much fun!
Latex formulas result in giant height and width images in the output epub. (For instance try to conver this equation). When I convert with dotepub they are slightly large but better.
@wrobbins recently added support for user provided cover images:
The clients however are still very specific about what they send to the backend:
In order for users to take advantage of the backend feature we will need to update the clients.
epub-press-js
can accept the additional metadataepub-press-js
has docs for these new params (added here )epub-press-chrome
for the extension.
I would like to support the project and have some Bitcoin. Do you accept donations?
Can this also download the comment section of reddit?
I've seen the Safari extension is already planned. Is there already any ETA available? Or is there any code which can already be used or testdriven? Would love to help out here, since Safari is my primary content browser.
The server should be better at extracting the author and date from articles.
It would also be great to include these field in the references page.
The main site currently shows supported readers for a variety of platforms. It doesn't give any examples for Linux.
Some (such as Calibre) work on Linux, but the docs should be updated to show this.
I'm not fluent in English and it's my first issue, please excuse any mistakes I've made :)
I'm trying to convert GJS documentation into epub.
The code block in it should be this
but it looks like
const {GLib} = imports.gi;
const loop = new GLib.MainLoop(null, false);
// Returns a Promise that randomly fails or succeeds after one second
function unreliablePromise() {
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
GLib.timeout_add_seconds(GLib.PRIORITY_DEFAULT, 1, () => {
if (Math.random() >= 0.5)
resolve('success');
else
reject(Error('failure'));
return GLib.SOURCE_REMOVE;
});
});
}
// An example async function, demonstrating how Promises can be resolved
// sequentially while catching errors in a try..catch block.
async function exampleAsyncFunction() {
try {
let count = 0;
while (true) {
await unreliablePromise();
log(`Promises resolved: ${++count}`);
}
} catch (e) {
logError(e);
loop.quit();
}
}
// Run the async function
exampleAsyncFunction();
loop.run();
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macOS: Sierra 10.12.5
Chrome: 58.0.3029.110 (64-bit)
Steps to reproduce:
1/ Open new Chrome window
2/ Navigate to https://seat14c.com/future_ideas
3/ Open each of the entries in the “Passenger Manifest” on the left-hand-side in a new tab, from top to bottom, including “The Origin Story” (but not including “Claim Your Seat”)
4/ Close the root tab, so that “The Origin Story” has focus
5/ Click the Epub.Press icon
6/ Enter the title “Seat 14C”
7/ Click “Select All”
8/ Click “Download”
Expected outcome:
Actual outcome:
Workaround:
Some possible causes:
Feel free to post the URL here or email it to [email protected] and we'll look into getting that fixed for you 👍 .
CLIs just are the best interfaces. I can automate them and integrate the service into bigger scripts, or just it interactively on any device regardless of the browser. (iOS, cough cough.)
When people encounter errors, it would be great to have instructions for debugging.
Eg.
Can we set the Author of the Book to the article Author instead of "ePub.Press"? Maybe only, if only one article is converted?
If you'd like to keep ePub.Press in the meta data, there's a Field something like "creator" which contains the app created the book.
The ebook can't get picture of webpage
Lazyloaded image can't show
Seems to be a problem publishing and visiting the site -502 Bad Gateway
I would like to enable image extraction on sites which require authentication. Currently the server
fails downloading images and I get an epub with only the content in the HTML. Looking through the code it looks like my options would be either:
I think I could probably come up to speed and work on this but would appreciate some direction and any ideas you might have.
I'm now working for Squarespace and have less time to maintain the backend code. I'd like to open source it so others can add features without waiting on me.
Current Behavior
If you publish an ebook with a foreign language in it, you can't use epub listening software because the language on the ebook is set to english
.
Expected Behavior
EpubPress should detect the language of the content, or the user should be able to provide a value.
using.mobi I get words in reversed order like this https://tarjema.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/20180311_132838cropped.jpg?w=640
using .epub I get characters in a wrong way like this https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8iGlWF9G_KY/maxresdefault.jpg
I think it was working well in previous versions so please check this also I can contribute to this issue but I want a guide :)
User submitted suggestion: Create a UI that allows you to create an ebook from a list of URLs rather than open tabs.
Currently EpubPress sets limits in a few categories.
The real reason for these limitations is space. Each image/section requires more data to store and send. The result is that single articles with many images don't work well. Books with many small chapters aren't possible.
A better system would only set limits on total bandwidth.
I'm using the Firefox add-on and download the files as .mobi
. Even though I set a title in the add-on, I always get an ebook with the default title ("EpubPress" and then the date) that I have to adapt manually in Calibre.
It would be nice if the user could break articles into Chapters. For instance.
If you create a book with the Chrome Extension and don't provide a title, a default of EpubPress - <Month> <Day> <Year>
is used.
This can be annoying if the user wants to create multiple books and not give each one a unique title.
When a book is created, the extension should start a count of how many books have been created that day. Each subsequent book created in the same day, will include that count so that each book has a unique title.
Is it possible to remove the TOC if it's only one artice?
When a user with a slow connection or many tabs uses the service, clicking the Download
button makes the extension unresponsive.
When Download
is clicked, the steps before talking to the server (grabbing the HTML, making the request) should be shown within the loader.
EpubPress is receiving messages from all the tabs containing all their HTML. So if you have 20 pages open, each with 10 Mb of HTML, that's 200 MB+ of RAM that will be needed just to transfer the HTML.
The solution to this problem could be both showing a loader to make things look more responsive, but also chunking the data.
The ebook can't get picture of webpage
Is it possible to add a list of references to all article URL's at the end of the book?
Reproduction steps:
When you send these types of files, it just results in an error:
Would be better to not even show these types of files.
why did we had the limitations of EpubPress?
Books are limited to containing 50 articles.
Books must be 10 Mb or less for email delivery to work.
Images in an article must be 1 Mb or less. Images that exceed this limit will be removed.
No more than 30 images will be downloaded.
Hi,
I think it would be easier to navigate when reading long articles if we could generate full table content for an article from its headings.
I wonder if we could implement that feature. Thank you.
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