gerype150/guideforge

GuideForge, also called NeoseekerToPdf in its own files, is a small Python tool that downloads a full game walkthrough from the website Neoseeker and turns it into a clean, printable PDF with a table of contents. The author built this because they enjoy owning physical strategy guides for long role playing games, but no official printed guide existed for the game Dragon Quest XI. The only guide available was a website version cluttered with ads and extra links, so this script strips that away and produces something suitable for printing. The tool works in two steps. First it visits the Neoseeker guide pages and stitches them together into one combined web page saved locally. Second, it converts that combined page into a final PDF file. If the combined page already exists from a previous run, the tool reuses it instead of downloading everything again, which saves time. To use it, you need Python 3.10 or newer on Windows, Linux, or macOS, along with an internet connection. It relies on a handful of Python libraries for downloading pages, cleaning up the html, controlling a web browser, and generating the PDF. After installing these, you edit a configuration file to set the guide's web address, the output PDF name, and the page margins, then run the main script. There is also an option to wait for you to manually solve a security check in the browser if the target website blocks automated access. The author is upfront that the results are not perfect since guide pages online can be formatted in slightly different ways, but calls it good enough to produce a clean, readable PDF. The project also notes that any downloaded content still belongs to its original creators and should only be used for personal use.