How can I turn someone's WordPress blog into a PDF?

July 11, 2010 9:50 AM

How can I turn someone else's WordPress blog into a PDF? There's a blog so good that I'd like to read every entry, from the beginning, as if it were a book. Is there an easy way to turn someone's blog into a book? Blogbooker seems to require me to be the owner of the blog, as I'd need to login and export the blog.
posted by surenoproblem to Computers & Internet (7 answers total)

You might try contacting the person to see if they'd be willing to give you an export of it. It would be a flattering request, so depending on the person, they may be willing to do it.
posted by willnot at 11:01 AM on July 11, 2010

Response by poster: Thanks. I've already tried and gotten no response. It may be that the blogger is thinking about getting a book deal in the future.
posted by surenoproblem at 11:08 AM on July 11, 2010

assuming they have an rss feed, add the blog's rss feed to google reader, then print each entry to a pdf, use something to combine all pdfs into 1 document then.
posted by dripped at 11:34 AM on July 11, 2010

If you're using OS X, SiteSucker might help. I've used it for the same purpose. It will give you HTML, of course, but you can then print to PDF.
posted by neushoorn at 11:42 AM on July 11, 2010 [1 favorite]

If you have Adobe Acrobat, you can point it to a web site and have it download all or some pages into a single PDF.
posted by me & my monkey at 1:16 PM on July 11, 2010

You can copy the whole site to your local machine in html with winhttrack
posted by T.D. Strange at 3:48 PM on July 11, 2010

Response by poster: Thanks everyone. Sounds like winhttrack is just what I need. After I download the entire website as html files, is there any way to convert hundred of html files to one pdf, reasonably simply?

Or is there a freeware alternative to Acrobat that can convert the website into one PDF?
posted by surenoproblem at 8:51 PM on July 11, 2010