Difference between revisions of "Remove Wikipedia references from HTML"
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The following code will remove all of the Wikipedia references | The following code will remove all of the Wikipedia references | ||
| − | 1. Use the "File/Save Page As..." to save the page to a file myfile.html | + | 1. Use the "File/Save Page As..." to save the page to a file myfile.html. Note that FireFox will also create a separate folder with all of the ancillary files for the page—images and the like—which you just leave as-is. |
2. In the Terminal, run | 2. In the Terminal, run | ||
Latest revision as of 09:27, 13 July 2011
The Problem Being Solved[edit]
Text that was originally sourced from Wikipedia will have a large number of references that detract from the flow of the text when it is printed. This "perl one-liner" removes the Wikipedia references from an HTML file downloaded from FireFox while leaving other references intact. It was tested on a Macintosh but the perl code is general and should also work on Windows (either as is or in some minor modification that it would be helpful for someone to test/contribute)
The Code[edit]
The following code will remove all of the Wikipedia references
1. Use the "File/Save Page As..." to save the page to a file myfile.html. Note that FireFox will also create a separate folder with all of the ancillary files for the page—images and the like—which you just leave as-is.
2. In the Terminal, run
perl -npe 's/<a href=\"http:\/\/en\.wikipedia\.org\/wiki.+?>(.+?)<\/a>/$1/g' myfile.html > mynicefile.html
where myfile.html is the name of the file you just saved and mynicefile.html is the name of the new file.
3. Use "File/Open File" to open the new file, which you can then print.
Example[edit]
These will take you to pdf files printed from FireFox showing the before and after versions of a file
Original file: File:Dewikify.OriginalFile.pdf
Modified file: File:Dewikify.NewFile.pdf
Original code: Philip Schrodt 10:49, 12 July 2011 (PDT)