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Gist to get the raw text from an epub for all chapters using Python, NLTK, EPUB
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| import nltk | |
| import epub | |
| book = epub.open_epub('design-is-a-job.epub') | |
| for item in book.opf.manifest.values(): | |
| # read the content | |
| data = book.read_item( item ) | |
| if 'html' in item.href and 'chap' in item.href: | |
| print item.href | |
| #print data | |
| raw = nltk.clean_html(data) | |
| print(raw) |
This is more likely in Python 2, but otherwise it needs a revamp
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hey, got this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 8, in
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/nltk/util.py", line 346, in clean_html
raise NotImplementedError ("To remove HTML markup, use BeautifulSoup's get_text() function")
NotImplementedError: To remove HTML markup, use BeautifulSoup's get_text() function