Publication Parser is a command line application that pulls the text from a full issue from a given magazine provided a table of contents webpage. The current magazines supported are: The London Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, Harper's Magazine, Bookforum, and The Times Literary Supplement. It generates a single HTML file with all written content, in addition to emailing the generated content to a recipient of choice (via nodemailer).
Parsers are up-to-date as of July 2020:
- London Review of Books (updated for December 2019 website change)
- The New York Review of Books
- Harper's Magazine (updated for ~April 2020 website change)
- Bookforum (updated for May 2019 website change)
- The Times Literary Supplement
The script requires Node 8 or greater (for async/await) and a lib/env.js file with the necessary cookie and email information. I've included example formatting in each of the respective parser files. I pulled the information using a browser's dev tools network tab. Required dependencies can be installed via yarn install.
I created this application to import writing into a text-to-speech application. I welcome contributions for supporting additional publications. Development is done in TypeScript in the /src directory.