Play Books Note Extractor

When highlighting text in a Google Play Books ebook, the resulting notes are saved in a Document in the user's Drive. The purpose of this script is to extract the notes so that they can be saved in a more manageable format, such as Markdown.

Before we can execute the script, we need to run a few steps:

1. In Google Drive, open the Notes file of the book that you wish to export;
2. Click on "File" > "Download" and select "Web Page (.html, zipped)"

3. Save the .zip file to your computer, e.g. in the Downloads folder, and extract it.

Code Setup

python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate

python3 extractor.py --file="path/to/your/NotesfromXYZ.html"