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May 12, 2011 08:25
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| require 'rubygems' | |
| require 'nokogiri' | |
| require 'open-uri' | |
| # Replace stupid 'smart' quotes in text, replace '\n' with real | |
| # newlines, change selected diacritical marks | |
| # | |
| def cleaned(str) | |
| str.gsub(/\\n/,"\n").gsub(/\‘|\’/, "'").gsub(/\”|\“/, '"').gsub(/í/, 'i') | |
| end | |
| url = 'http://www.slideshare.net/oisin/constructing-web-apis-with-rack-sinatra-and-mongodb' | |
| doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open(url)) | |
| count = 1 | |
| puts "<html><head><title>Slide Notes for #{url}</title></head><body>" | |
| doc.css("#notesList p").each do |p| | |
| puts "<h2>Notes for slide #{count}</h2>" | |
| puts "<p>#{ cleaned(p.content) }</p>" | |
| count += 1 | |
| end | |
| puts "</body></html>" |
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The URL is hardcoded and no styling - please feel free to clone and extend. The so-called smart quotes and accented character in the cleaned() function will not appear correctly in some editors (e.g. vi). I used textmate for this and it works well.