Project Gutenberg scraping service

A simple website with a text box into which can be pasted the URL (or multiple lines of URLs) of Project Gutenberg texts or authors. The Open Shakespeare script for removing Gutenberg headers and footers is deployed. Optionally users can select output in variety of formats (e.g. HTML/PDF files according to predefined stylesheet). Files can be downloaded individually or in bulk.

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submitted 15 Oct '10, 18:07

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0	Existing ticket: http://knowledgeforge.net/okfn/tasks/ticket/283 link solved 09 Nov '10, 16:50 rgrp ♦♦ 646●19●31●34 accept rate: 45%

0	Also relevant: Linked Open Data for Project Gutenberg http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/gutendata/ link solved 30 May '11, 10:40 pablomendes 91●1●2●4 accept rate: 0%

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