GameFAQ's HTML walkthroughs as ePub

ownedbycats · 04-27-2023, 09:28 PM

GameFAQs is a good source for game walkthroughs and guides. I like to save local copies of guides I find useful and put them in my Calibre library in case my internet goes down or the author decides to remove them.

Most of the guides are just plain-text which are easy to deal with. But some newer ones are full HTML like this.

Any ideas on how I could make this into an ePub? Third-party sites or browser extensions (I have access to both Chromium and Firefox-based browsers) are fine.

Karellen · 04-27-2023, 09:37 PM

There is a quick and dirty manual way, but needs a couple of minutes of cleanup.

Right click on the header bar and select Inspect (Q)
You will be taken to the Inspector. (in Firefox)
Slowly scroll down the list of <div>'s until the text you want is highlighted.
Right Click►Copy►Inner HTML
Paste it into your epub.
Then you just need to delete the bits you don't want.

ownedbycats · 04-27-2023, 09:55 PM

That was my backup method; I've done it before with some old mozilla archive formats files when the plugin got deprecated.

Turtle91 · 04-27-2023, 11:16 PM

There are very basic python scraper tutorials you can use…just make sure you have permission of the website owner to use their info.

ownedbycats · 04-27-2023, 11:40 PM

I tried WebToEpub after adding ?single=1 to the end of the URL.

It worked (though not in my usual browser). Also I'll need to edit the ePub to fix issues (duplicated sections, messed-up tables, etc)

Doitsu · 04-28-2023, 05:09 AM

dotEPUB worked fine for me.
(You'll need to disable the Immersive mode option to have it export pictures, too.

04-27-2023, 09:28 PM	#1
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 10,949 Karma: 74999999 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	GameFAQ's HTML walkthroughs as ePub GameFAQs is a good source for game walkthroughs and guides. I like to save local copies of guides I find useful and put them in my Calibre library in case my internet goes down or the author decides to remove them. Most of the guides are just plain-text which are easy to deal with. But some newer ones are full HTML like this. Any ideas on how I could make this into an ePub? Third-party sites or browser extensions (I have access to both Chromium and Firefox-based browsers) are fine.

04-27-2023, 09:37 PM	#2
Karellen Wizard Posts: 1,611 Karma: 9500498 Join Date: Sep 2021 Location: Australia Device: Kobo Libra 2	There is a quick and dirty manual way, but needs a couple of minutes of cleanup. Right click on the header bar and select Inspect (Q) You will be taken to the Inspector. (in Firefox) Slowly scroll down the list of <div>'s until the text you want is highlighted. Right Click►Copy►Inner HTML Paste it into your epub. Then you just need to delete the bits you don't want.

04-27-2023, 11:40 PM	#5
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 10,949 Karma: 74999999 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	I tried WebToEpub after adding ?single=1 to the end of the URL. It worked (though not in my usual browser). Also I'll need to edit the ePub to fix issues (duplicated sections, messed-up tables, etc) Last edited by ownedbycats; 04-28-2023 at 12:06 AM.

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ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 10,949 Karma: 74999999 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	That was my backup method; I've done it before with some old mozilla archive formats files when the plugin got deprecated.

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