On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:43 AM, George De Bruin <sndcha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually, I was thinking about the ScrapBook extension when I started > reading this thread... The thing that the ScrapBook extension could be is a > model of what a Zim plugin should look like... The biggest thing is the > ability to (a) scan X layers deep into a page, and (b) replace links with > the local cached versions of the images / pages / etc, (c) the ability to > selectively ignore sets of links, and (d) the ability to replace links that > don't have pages / images in the cache with dummy links. > > IMO - this kind of functionality is really a bit more complicated than it > appears at first blush. > > Well, it doesn't have to be too complicated as long as you don't try to do everything yourself. Downloading webpages can be done by a specialized program like wget, which will also adopt all the links in the downloaded pages to local links for you and has many other options. Searching through a zim notebook and getting urls to feed to wget is trivial, just open a page, iterate link elements in the parse tree and list all links that start with "http" (or a short list of supported protocols). Only part I would have to look into as where to place the hooks that allow links to go through a plugin instead of to the browser directly when opening a link in zim. But this should not be hard - just an implementation choice. Regards, Jaap
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