mlwerke2pdf

Python module to convert texts on http://www.mlwerke.de or https://www.marxists.org into Portable Document Format files

mlwerke2pdf fetches the linked subsites from the given table of contents and concats them to a single pdf

at this point links and linked images in the pdf are not functional as they point to the mlwerke html structure converting them to pdf internal links would be possible but rather complex

dependencies

uses python modules requests, BeautifulSoup4, urllib and weasyprint

Usage as commandline util

python mlwerke2pdf_shutil.py -u URL -o PDF_OUTPUT_PATH [--dry True optional for not writing any files]

use the base / table of contents of a text like https://www.marxists.org/deutsch/archiv/marx-engels/1848/manifest/index.htm as URL

Usage as Python module

create MLWerke Object:

mlwerk = mlwerke2pdf.MLWerk(URL)

use the base / table of contents of a text like https://www.marxists.org/deutsch/archiv/marx-engels/1848/manifest/index.htm as URL

generate a pdf

mlwerk.text2pdf(PDF_OUTPUT_PATH)

or cominded into one line

mlwerke2pdf.MLWerk(URL).text2pdf(PDF_OUTPUT_PATH)