Blogpack

Blog → Book!

Download entire blogs for offline reading. Generates PDF, EPUB, and HTML with working internal links and embedded images.

Absolutely ideal for long flights, distraction free reading, digital detoxes, or pretending you'll finally catch up on that Substack.

Works with Substack, Ghost and Wordpress blogs.

Installation

pip install blogpack

Note: PDF export requires additional system libraries. If PDF generation fails:

• Ubuntu/Debian: sudo apt install libpango-1.0-0 libpangocairo-1.0-0
• macOS: brew install pango
• Windows: Install GTK3 from MSYS2

EPUB and HTML exports work without these dependencies.

Usage

blogpack https://www.cold-takes.com/

Downloads the blog to ./cold-takes/ with HTML, EPUB, and PDF formats.

Options

blogpack https://example.com/ -o ./my-folder   # Custom output directory
blogpack https://example.com/ -f epub          # Only generate EPUB
blogpack https://example.com/ -n 50            # Limit to 50 posts
blogpack https://example.com/ --no-images      # Skip images
blogpack https://example.com/ --no-verify-ssl  # Disable SSL verification

Web App

A browser-based interface is included in blogpack-web/.

Run Locally

cd blogpack-web
pip install -r requirements.txt
uvicorn app:app --reload
# Open http://localhost:8000

Deploy with Docker

docker build -t blogpack-web .
docker run -p 8000:8000 blogpack-web

Output Structure

<blog-name>/                  # Derived from blog URL
├── html/
│   ├── index.html           # Table of contents
│   ├── post-slug.html       # Individual posts
│   └── images/              # Downloaded images
├── <blog-name>-archive.epub # For e-readers
└── <blog-name>-archive.pdf  # Single PDF

License

GPL-3.0 - See LICENSE for details.