archieve whole website into ebook?

[jacek.poplawski]

hello,

(I asked this question on Arch Linux forum https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=128418, but looks like calibre is currently most advanced application to perform this task and maybe here someone knows how to do it.)

If I understand correctly calibre recipes are for RSS feeds, not static websites.

But is there a way to convert static website into book in .mobi format?

For instance, there is a polish magazine archive here: http://archiwum.wiz.pl/spis_tematow.asp, is there a way to generate .mobi from it?

There are many websites like that, with previous issues, old articles, or just stories. It would be awesome to generate ebook from them and read them on kindle instead monitor, but I wasn't able to find out how to do it.

I can use wget and curl to download tree of html files, that's not the problem. But how to convert such tree into ebook? I assume calibre recipes do something like that. Do you have any tips or ready solutions?

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by jacek.poplawski

If I understand correctly calibre recipes are for RSS feeds, not static websites.

No, the recipe system can handle both. The recipe can build a virtual RSS feed page from one or more web pages, then it processes that as though it was an RSS feed.

But is there a way to convert static website into book in .mobi format?

Yes, although if the site is truly static, a recipe is probably not the best approach. Just grabbing the site with wget and saving it would be best.

For instance, there is a polish magazine archive here: http://archiwum.wiz.pl/spis_tematow.asp, is there a way to generate .mobi from it?

There are many websites like that, with previous issues, old articles, or just stories. It would be awesome to generate ebook from them and read them on kindle instead monitor, but I wasn't able to find out how to do it.

I can use wget and curl to download tree of html files, that's not the problem. But how to convert such tree into ebook? I assume calibre recipes do something like that. Do you have any tips or ready solutions?

If you have the html, just drag the index.html into Calibre and it will be saved as an html (inside a zip). Calibre will follow all local relative links to build the entire ebook. Then convert to mobi

[jacek.poplawski]

Wow, that's awesome, thank you!

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by jacek.poplawski

Wow, that's awesome, thank you!

Glad I could help.