Re: [Haskell-cafe] Converting wiki pages into pdf

Is it possible to automate this process rather than manually clicking and downloading using Haskell ? Thank You Mukesh Tiwari On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Max Rabkin wrote:

This doesn't answer your Haskell question, but Wikpedia has PDF-generation facilities ("Books"). Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Book (for single articles, just use the "download PDF" option in the sidebar).

--Max

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 14:34, mukesh tiwari wrote:

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Hello all I am trying to write a Haskell program which download html pages from wikipedia including images and convert them into pdf . I wrote a small script

import Network.HTTP import Data.Maybe import Data.List

main = do x <- getLine htmlpage <- getResponseBody =<< simpleHTTP ( getRequest x ) -- open url --print.words $ htmlpage let ind_1 = fromJust . ( \n -> findIndex ( n `isPrefixOf`) . tails $ htmlpage ) $ "<!-- content -->" ind_2 = fromJust . ( \n -> findIndex ( n `isPrefixOf`) . tails $ htmlpage ) $ "<!-- /content -->" tmphtml = drop ind_1 $ take ind_2 htmlpage writeFile "down.html" tmphtml

and its working fine except some symbols are not rendering as it should be. Could some one please suggest me how to accomplish this task.

Thank you Mukesh Tiwari

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