fix #32 extract titles from URL

README.md

@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ The following is shared:
 - `keywords`: Array of Strings: Keywords/Tags. (I'm not sure what the difference is in the final output so it goes in both.)
 - `sections`: **See "Book"/"Anthology" variations.** (I call LitErotica's stories sections - because they are often part of a larger whole.)
 - `section_titles`: (Optional) Array of Strings: The titles to be used for Table of Contents / headings. (If `sections.naming` is specified, `section_titles` will be ignored.)
+- `lazy_titling`: (Optional) Boolean: URLs will be used to generate section titles. (Warning: This process is likely to create janky titles.)
 - `page_counts`: Array of Integers: The number of pages on LitErotica per "story". (I call them sections because this script was made to put together story series originally.)
 
 #### Variation: Book
@@ -59,7 +60,7 @@ The following is shared:
   - `start`: (Optional) Number: Where to start. (`1` is the default, since it is the most common.)
   - `finish`: Number: Where to end.
   - `naming`: (Optional) String: How to name sections in the final output. The result is `[naming] [#]` (using section numbers). (If not specified, sections will not have headings.)
-  - `automatic_naming`: (Optional) Boolean: If any line matches "Prologue" or "Chapter #" (any number), it will be made into a heading. (Note: This does not override `naming`. Both can be used together.)
+  - `automatic_naming`: (Optional) Boolean: If any line matches "Prologue" or "Chapter #" (any number), it will be made into a heading. (Note: This does not override `naming`. Both can be used together.) (Other patterns will be added as I find them.)
 
 Example:
 ```json

make-epub.lua

@@ -227,6 +227,29 @@ local function write_markdown_file(config)
         markdown_file:write("\n\n# " .. config.sections.naming .. " " .. tostring(section))
       elseif config.section_titles then
         markdown_file:write("\n\n# " .. config.section_titles[section])
+      elseif config.lazy_titling then
+        local section_url
+        if section == 1 and config.first_section_url then
+          section_url = config.first_section_url
+        else
+          section_url = config.base_url
+        end
+        if config.manually_specified_sections then
+          section_url = config.sections[section]
+        end
+
+        local title_parts = section_url:sub(30):gsplit("-")
+        while tonumber(title_parts[#title_parts]) do
+          title_parts[#title_parts] = nil
+        end
+        local last_part = title_parts[#title_parts]
+        if last_part == "ch" or last_part == "pt" then
+          title_parts[#title_parts] = nil
+        end
+        for index, part in ipairs(title_parts) do
+          title_parts[index] = part:sub(1, 1):upper() .. part:sub(2)
+        end
+        markdown_file:write("\n\n# " .. table.concat(title_parts, " "))
       end
       markdown_file:write("\n\n")
 

utility-functions.lua

@@ -59,6 +59,26 @@ function string.enquote(s)
   return "\"" .. s .. "\""
 end
 
+local function escape_special_characters(s)
+  local special_characters = "[()%%.[^$%]*+%-?]"
+  if s == nil then return end
+  return (s:gsub(special_characters, "%%%1"))
+end
+
+function string.gsplit(s, delimiter)
+  delimiter = delimiter or ","
+  if s:sub(-#delimiter) ~= delimiter then s = s .. delimiter end
+  return s:gmatch("(.-)" .. escape_special_characters(delimiter))
+end
+
+function string.split(s, delimiter)
+  local result = {}
+  for item in s:gsplit(delimiter) do
+    result[#result + 1] = item
+  end
+  return result
+end
+
 utility.require = function(name)
   local success, package_or_err = pcall(function()
     return dofile((arg[0]:match("@?(.*/)") or arg[0]:match("@?(.*\\)")) .. name .. ".lua")