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User:John Vandenberg/google books scrape text

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The "Google Books Scrape Text" user script copies the text for a page to the clipboard.

Install edit

  1. This user script depends on the Firefox Greasemonkey extension which can be installed here.
  2. As this script is not "signed", the firefox config option signed.applets.codebase_principal_support needs to be set to 'true'. To do this, load "about:config". Refer to http://www.krikkit.net/howto_javascript_copy_clipboard.html
     
  3. Peruse the source code and install the user script.

Usage edit

  1. Go to Google Books and select a "Full View" book
  2. On a page such as this, a "Copy" button will appear with a selection list beside it with the options "HTML", "Lines" and "Text". The default, "Lines" will preserve end-of-line markers.
  3. The first time "Copy" is clicked, the follow confirmation dialog will appear:

Limitations edit

  • It doesnt handle pages prior to "1"; i.e. pages without roman numerals like i

Bugs edit

Please report problems at User talk:Jayvdb/google books scrape text.

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