User:John Vandenberg/google books scrape text

UserScript.org 11698 The "Google Books Scrape Text" user script copies the text for a page to the clipboard.

Install

 * 1) This user script depends on the Firefox Greasemonkey extension which can be installed here.
 * 2) As this script is not "signed", the firefox config option signed.applets.codebase_principal_support needs to be set to 'true'.  To do this, load "about:config".  Refer to http://www.krikkit.net/howto_javascript_copy_clipboard.html [[Image:Firefox option signed.applets.codebase_principal_support.png]]
 * 3) Peruse the  source code and install the user script.

Usage

 * 1) Go to Google Books and select a "Full View" book
 * 2) On a page such as this, a "Copy" button will appear with a selection list beside it with the options "HTML", "Lines" and "Text".  The default, "Lines" will preserve end-of-line markers.
 * 3) The first time "Copy" is clicked, the follow confirmation dialog will appear:

Limitations

 * It doesnt handle pages prior to "1"; i.e. pages without roman numerals like i

Bugs
Please report problems at User talk:Jayvdb/google books scrape text.