The WS Export tool can't export just a single page, no.
You could get the HTML from e.g.
https://en.wikisource.org/api/rest_v1/page/html/Little_Essays_of_Love_and_V…
and process it into the form you want. I suspect that most plain text
forms of those title and contents pages will not look great though, as
they're often full of different font sizes, images, tables, etc.
Out of interest, what are you trying to do? Perhaps there's another way
to get what you need.
—Sam
On 22/9/22 01:47, Julius Hamilton wrote:
> Hey,
>
> It seems relatively easy to export any section of a Wikisource book
> with the "download" button, but there is no way to export just the
> preface / title page. If you press "download" on the title page, the
> section name is just the book name, so you download the entire book
> instead of just the preface.
>
> For example:
>
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Little_Essays_of_Love_and_Virtue
>
> Is this intentional? Is there any good way to export the plaintext of
> just the preface, via some command / functionality / API?
>
> Thank you,
> Julius
>
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