scrape txt

jlutes · 08-07-2011, 02:06 AM

I have some .txt format books. Within the first 100 lines of text the title, author, etc. are listed as "title:", etc. Is there a plugin or method to extract that information associated with calibre or do I need to look elsewhere?

user_none · 08-07-2011, 09:20 AM

There is no way to scrape the information from inside of the file.

If they are all consistently formatted then it wouldn't be hard to modify the TXT metadata reading plugin to read the information from the file. See http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kovid/c...etadata/txt.py for how it's currently done.

08-07-2011, 02:06 AM	#1
jlutes Connoisseur Posts: 52 Karma: 12 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: none	scrape txt I have some .txt format books. Within the first 100 lines of text the title, author, etc. are listed as "title:", etc. Is there a plugin or method to extract that information associated with calibre or do I need to look elsewhere?

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08-07-2011, 09:20 AM	#2
user_none Sigil & calibre developer Posts: 2,487 Karma: 1063785 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Florida, USA Device: Nook STR	There is no way to scrape the information from inside of the file. If they are all consistently formatted then it wouldn't be hard to modify the TXT metadata reading plugin to read the information from the file. See http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kovid/c...etadata/txt.py for how it's currently done.

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