Thanks.
Right now I am trying to download sections of WikiSource texts from a command line (because I want to translate them mobilely in Termius) and reupload the translations to Wikisource.
Explored using ws-export, looks good but so far a little stuck on the installation.
As for the API I am still learning the ropes. For example this command also does not return text as I was hoping:
Is it just impossible to use the API on Wikisource?
What about “parse”?
Thanks,
Julius
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_Virtue
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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