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[Kovid Goyal <kovid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh and I forgot to mention that you should consider switching to lxml for XML 
parsing. I don't have anything against Amara, but when integrating into 
calibre, it would mean adding a new dependency.

Kovid.

On Saturday 25 October 2008 20:11:46 Sean Peterson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I wonder if anyone is interested in adding some functionality in Calibre
> to make it a little bit easier to work with online content repositories.
>
> I used jbook for a while and liked how even though it was a reader it
> had the capacity to get a list of txt files from project gutenberg
> servers and download the content to browse locally.
>
> When I saw the iPhone with Stanza could do something similar with
> feedbooks.com (see http://www.feedbooks.com/help/iphone) I decided to
> try and do something similar since there were a lot of ebooks that I
> wanted to download at once.
>
> Not having looked at the python scripts behind Calibre, I just cobbled
> together a rudimentary python script that queries the feedbook.com
> library through the web API, then parses the resulting xml file and
> downloads the e-books (currently only epubs).
>
> If that wasn't enough of a limitation, the results xml page doesn't
> contain all ebooks, just the first 20.
>
> The available documentation is minimal, but so far the API seems to be
> pretty intuitive. Just have to wait for the email reply to get some way
> to work around the 20 item limit.
>
> I'm considering making a simple graphical interface, so users averse to
> the command line can point and click. Before I go that route, I wanted
> to touch base and get feedback about this approach and how well it
> meshes (or doesn't) with the development goals and roadmap of Calibre.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -Sean.

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