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Dark-Show · 12-08-2015, 03:58 PM

Hello, Kinda new here, been lurking for a while.

At the moment my current project has been a website scraper, that scrapes lets say CNN news stories and turns them into a EPUB, then using kindlegen into MOBI. My idea is to have a script for the kindle to select a website, then it would scrape and form a book. Is this possible, I have yet to hack my PW2 (was waiting for the software jailbreak) but my only question would be if we can convert ebooks on the device or if there is a way to make a mobi directly.

Also would people be interested in this project?

If no on device conversion is possible I could host a script that would convert the EPUB to MOBI, and output the new book. But i would much rather the conversion be done on the device.

12-08-2015, 03:58 PM	#1
Dark-Show Member Posts: 12 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2015 Device: Kindle PW2	On device site scraper Hello, Kinda new here, been lurking for a while. At the moment my current project has been a website scraper, that scrapes lets say CNN news stories and turns them into a EPUB, then using kindlegen into MOBI. My idea is to have a script for the kindle to select a website, then it would scrape and form a book. Is this possible, I have yet to hack my PW2 (was waiting for the software jailbreak) but my only question would be if we can convert ebooks on the device or if there is a way to make a mobi directly. Also would people be interested in this project? If no on device conversion is possible I could host a script that would convert the EPUB to MOBI, and output the new book. But i would much rather the conversion be done on the device.