Ravi S. Iyer: Worldly

Last updated on  9 Sep. 2023   9 Sep. 2023 Update: I rarely use the software covered in this post now. To see the current software for creating Blogger blogbooks that I use, please visit:  Short User Guide to creating Blogger Blogbooks from Backup/Export File using ExportFileFilterAndGenBook and another VBA projects' macros/code (free and open source),  https://ravisiyermisc.blogspot.com/2023/09/short-user-guide-to-creating-blogger.html  . end-Update 9 Sep. 2023 8 Jul 2023 Update Note I decided to put up and publish this post on 28 June 2023 while the Google Apps Script project work was in progress, as I wanted to ensure that whatever work I had done till then was available for interested readers. I updated this post in a big way over the next few days as I progressed towards a stable solution. Now,  as of 8 Jul. 2023, the Google Apps Script project is stable. I have also put up a post about the stable version: BlogBooksMaker Google Apps Script to Create Bl...

Over past few days, I was creating pdf blogbooks for period from around 2020 to now, for posts and pages of my two main blogs - this worldly blog and the other spiritual blog. I used the free version of BlogBooker online facility,  https://blogbooker.com/ , for most of the task. That works well but the free version restricts the use as 3 times and max blog period of 1 year each time, within a utility usage period of 6 months. I quickly used up the free version runs and was able to manage two such runs. After that I still had some posts to capture in a single pdf as well as pages of the two blogs, and looked around for free software or online facility to do that other than BlogBooker. That's when I came across this wkhtmltopdf utility. Yesterday, 25th Jun. 2023, I installed and tried out wkhtmltopdf command line program on my Microsoft Windows PC. It worked in two cases but tripped up on the third which had to be fixed by breaking up the work into parts! Overall, I found it to be a...

Last updated on 3 Jul 2025 30 Jun - 3 Jul 2025 Update The Javascript code for the implementation referred below did not work properly over past few days for my raviswdev.blogspot.com blog. It was omitting listing posts after the 13 Oct. 2024 post till 21 March 2024 post. Note that this code had seemed to be working well for the aforementioned blog for over a year, IFIRC. But I had not done extensive testing and so perhaps there were some omissions which I had not noted. On debugging the code yesterday with Gemini's help, the issue found was ... Me: API Call (Start Index: 1, Max Results: 150): Received 52 entries. API Call (Start Index: 151, Max Results: 150): Received 40 entries. =========== So the first API call gets only 52 entries and our start index jumps to 151 for next call. Hmm. Does blogger API say that it could return less than max results even if more posts than max results match the request? Gemini: ... Does Blogger API say that it could return less than max results even...

When author of post or comment is not mentioned, it should be assumed that it is me (Ravi S. Iyer). To save time, I am usually not providing my FB post links but only contents. I am also not hyperlinking links. So readers may have to copy-paste links from this post onto a browser link box and then browse to that link. ==========================================  How to Update a Shared File in Google Drive Without Changing the Shareable Link  https://www.howtogeek.com/261196/how-to-update-a-shared-file-in-google-drive-without-changing-the-shareable-link/ ----------- Reality of the past for rural commoner folks. buffalo chips meaning, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/buffalo%20chips FB post: https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/pfbid024wXHUr2x57aUpmhSLme2tGsDRnygKRepCKAE8n4paoYm81EHHmkxEA7Zsv9HKZcal shares post with pic and caption, "Pioneer woman collecting buffalo chips for fuel." ========== On FB post: https://www.facebook.com/Trayambakam/posts/pfbid02nt...