Copyright (c) 2013 Nic Jansma http://nicj.net
Downloads magazines from the Economist, converts them to .mobi, and optionally emails them to your Kindle.
Details at nicj.net.
NOTE: This script attempts to work with the most recent Economist editions on economist.com. Older editions may have different formatting that is incompatible with the current script. If want to view an older edition and the current script doesn't work, take a look at previous versions of this script.
If this script doesn't work, please check for the latest version at github. The economist.com changes often and may break this script.
A version of Mobigen (or similar .mobi converter) is needed. An archived version is found at nicj.net
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Open
economist-to-kinde.phpand change any settings you need underneath this section:// ****************** fill in these options ****************** -
Run
economist-to-kinde.phpto generate a .mobi:php -f economist-to-kinde.php
- 2009-04-13: Initial release
- 2010-01-03: Uses your login credentials to download articles
- 2010-01-25: Several bugfixes
- 2011-05-02: Updates based on slifox and crosscode’s fixes.
- 2011-07-26: Small update to work with the economist.com's latest updates
- 2012-02-02: Fixes for the recent major changes to the economist.com's website
- 2013-01-07: More fixes for the URL structure changes to the economist.com's website
- Based on http://fatknowledge.blogspot.com/2008/09/economist-in-kindle-format.html
- Updated and maintained by Nic Jansma
- Contributions from: "Josh" http://nicj.net/2010/01/03/the-economist-and-the-kindle-take-2#comments
- Contributions from: "slifox" http://www.revlogic.net/public/economist_to_kindle.phps
- Updated to work with latest Economist website (as of 06-27-2010)
- Uses HTTPS (SSL encryption) for site login
- Notes at http://nicj.net/2010/01/03/the-economist-and-the-kindle-take-2#comment-4575
- Contributions from: "CrossCode" http://www.crosscode.org/public/economist_to_kindle.phps