mobi2stardict

Convert unpacked MOBI dictionaries to StarDict input formats: Babylon Glossary Source (GLS) format and StarDict Textual Dictionary Format

Usage

python mobi2stardict.py -h

usage: mobi2stardict.py [-h] [--html-folder HTML_FOLDER] [--fix-links] [--dict-name DICT_NAME] [--author AUTHOR] [--gls]
                        [--textual] [--chunked]

Convert unpacked Kindle MOBI dictionary files to Babylon Glossary source files or to Stardict Textual Dictionary Format.

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --html-folder HTML_FOLDER
                        Path of the folder containing HTML files.
  --fix-links           Try to convert in-dictionary references to glossary format.
  --dict-name DICT_NAME
                        Name of the dictionary file.
  --author AUTHOR       Name of the author or publisher.
  --gls                 Convert dictionary to Babylon glossary source.
  --textual             Convert dictionary to Stardict Textual Dictionary Format.
  --chunked             Parse html in chunks to reduce memory usage.

You need to install Beautiful Soup and lxml packages to run the script. To convert the unpacked MOBI files to both GLS and Textual format you would call the script like this:

python mobi2stardict.py --fix-links --html-folder ./Folder --dict-name "Name of the dictionary" --author "Author" --gls --textual

Change name and author accordingly or not specify these parameters.

Also, while converting particularly large files you may want to pass the --chunked option to bring down the memory usage to more moderate levels. Then the line would become:

python.exe mobi2stardict.py --fix-links --dict-name "Name of the dictionary" --author "Author" --gls --textual --chunked

NOTE

You may come across some poorly formatted dictionaries that may result in inability to parse definitions.