Question: Deleting html links to sites in document

nkormanik · 11-22-2010, 03:04 AM

I'm constructing a personal e-book containing a collection of html pages I gathered from the Internet.

I merged these pages into one large html document. Within the merged document are many links to outside sites. When I bring the html document into my web browser, I can see at the bottom of the screen lots of downloading from those various links/sites.

My question is: What's the easiest way of removing or eliminating all of those links to the outside?

One way I found was to use an editor and to simply remove "http://" wherever it occurs in the html document.

Is that the best way?

Thanks,
Nicholas Kormanik

nkormanik · 11-22-2010, 03:06 AM

I was hoping that Calibre would have some auto-stripping function for html importing, that would automatically eliminate such links.

Manichean · 11-22-2010, 04:35 AM

If you want to remove whatever from your document, you can always use the header/footer removal regexes in structure detection.

kovidgoyal · 11-22-2010, 12:06 PM

just convert your html file, links pointing to non local resources are not followed by calibre's conversion engine anyway

nkormanik · 11-22-2010, 08:51 PM

Glad to hear Calibre strips the links.

The problem is, however, if there are lots of links, it takes a long time for Calibre to convert the file. Seems better to delete them upfront, from the HTML document, before bringing it into Calibre.

nkormanik · 11-22-2010, 09:05 PM

Things are rough enough for Calibre to handle. Cut the junk first.

nkormanik · 11-22-2010, 09:07 PM

Converting to txt is not the answer, though, as too much formatting is given up.

11-22-2010, 03:04 AM	#1
nkormanik Connoisseur Posts: 86 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Philippines Device: DavidAcisAAJ	Question: Deleting html links to sites in document I'm constructing a personal e-book containing a collection of html pages I gathered from the Internet. I merged these pages into one large html document. Within the merged document are many links to outside sites. When I bring the html document into my web browser, I can see at the bottom of the screen lots of downloading from those various links/sites. My question is: What's the easiest way of removing or eliminating all of those links to the outside? One way I found was to use an editor and to simply remove "http://" wherever it occurs in the html document. Is that the best way? Thanks, Nicholas Kormanik

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11-22-2010, 03:06 AM	#2
nkormanik Connoisseur Posts: 86 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Philippines Device: DavidAcisAAJ	I was hoping that Calibre would have some auto-stripping function for html importing, that would automatically eliminate such links.

11-22-2010, 04:35 AM	#3
Manichean Wizard Posts: 3,130 Karma: 91256 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Germany Device: Cybook Gen3	If you want to remove whatever from your document, you can always use the header/footer removal regexes in structure detection.

11-22-2010, 12:06 PM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,210 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	just convert your html file, links pointing to non local resources are not followed by calibre's conversion engine anyway

11-22-2010, 08:51 PM	#5
nkormanik Connoisseur Posts: 86 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Philippines Device: DavidAcisAAJ	Glad to hear Calibre strips the links. The problem is, however, if there are lots of links, it takes a long time for Calibre to convert the file. Seems better to delete them upfront, from the HTML document, before bringing it into Calibre.

11-22-2010, 09:05 PM	#6
nkormanik Connoisseur Posts: 86 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Philippines Device: DavidAcisAAJ	Things are rough enough for Calibre to handle. Cut the junk first.

11-22-2010, 09:07 PM	#7
nkormanik Connoisseur Posts: 86 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Philippines Device: DavidAcisAAJ	Converting to txt is not the answer, though, as too much formatting is given up.

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