B.E.R.T.

Cos'è?

B.E.R.T. (Blog to Epub Ripping Tool) is a tool born for give the possibility to read blod's contents off-line using an Ebook-Reader. ePub is the standard eletronic publishing format for digital documents, BERT is able to process the blog posts' HTML, extract the contents and build with them an ePub file.

WoW! I like it, how can I use it?

Wait a moment! You need some infos before to start. The BERT's entry point is a xml configuration file, inside it are defined the Providers and for each one of them, the Processor

• Provider: they say to BERT from WHERE take the blog's post. There are two type of Providers: ListProvider through it you can "rip" on or more well known blog posts' urls and FeedProvider that take as input a single RSS url and prode to BERT the urls listed

• Processor: they say to BERT HOW process the sigle blog post's contents. Processors are the weak part of BERT because you need do develop one of them for each distinct blog. Of course, all blogs members of the same blog's community (engine) like, for example, worpress.com, are very similar but you can recycle the same identical procesor only if layouts are the same.

Take a look at the config file section it speaks better than my words.

Wow, wow, wow! Let me try!

Ok, ok, so:

1. Download the last BERT version from here

2. uncompres the archive in a direcotry

3. change as you wish the default.xml located under conf subdirectory

4. open a Linux terminal or a Windows console and reach the installation directory

5. execute

   java -jar bert-*.jar

   (where "*" is the BERT version with, optionally, the string "bundled"). In this manner BERT process the default.xml file. If you want to process a differet you can call the program passing it's full or relative path as the unique argument, ex:

   java -jar bert-*.jar c:\foo\my.xml

   or

   java -jar bert-*.jar conf/my.xml

   or again

   java -jar bert-*.jar /home/bazu/my.xml

6. wait the process' end and enjoy your epub file located under out direcory

Cool, but, IMHO, BERT should do this, could do that...

Stop! This is not the right place to start discussions. This site will not be mantained very often. You can do your observations, report bugs and ask for help in the apposite Sourceforge space here in detail:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/blog2epub/forums For help and Processors implementation requests

and https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=342486 for bug tracking and improvement requests

Or, of course, writing to: blog2epub AT gmail DOT com