This tool allows one to grab all of a Textbook's Chapter Summaries from the web, downloading
them into one easy to manage HTML file. Your book must of course be available on McGraw-Hill's
website.
usage:
perl summary.pl > summary.html
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use HTML::TableExtract;
use LWP::Simple;
use CGI;
use constant CHAPTERS => 14;
use constant TITLE => 'Communicating at Work: Principles and Practices
+ for Business and Professions, 7/e';
my $c = new CGI;
print $c->h1( TITLE );
for ( 1..CHAPTERS ){
my $count = $_;
my $URL = 'http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072400722/student_
+view0/chapter' . $_ . '/chapter_overview.html';
my $HTML = get($URL) or die $!;
my $te = new HTML::TableExtract( depth => 2 , count => 1);
$te->parse($HTML);
foreach my $ts ($te->table_states) {
print $c->h3(" Chapter $count Overview");
foreach my $row ($ts->rows) {
print $c->p( join(',', @$row), "\n" );
}
}
}
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