This is a release of the iNewsStand application.

I did not program this, it was done by the smart people over at Feedbooks (http://www.feedbooks.com). I simply helped with the porting to the iLiad.

This program allows you download News, Books, Soduku all over a network connection without the use of a PC. I can download books in the Mobipocket, ePub, or custom iLiad PDF formats.

Previous discussion can be found in this thread (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12852)

Hey...
very good news, great job Adam. A sincere thank you!

Hi Adam,
I have kind of the problem with iNewsStand.
I have my wireless network link up and when start iNewsStand green led is flashing all the time.
"Brick bar" at the bottom is alive showing black "brick" traveling and nothing else is happening.

I have 2.12 software version

Regards
Piotr

Hi Adam,
I have kind of the problem with iNewsStand.
I have my wireless network link up and when start iNewsStand green led is flashing all the time.
"Brick bar" at the bottom is alive showing black "brick" traveling and nothing else is happening.

I have 2.12 software version

Regards
Piotr

I'm not sure what the problem is...That's never happened to me before.

I've put the unzipped file on my iliad and clicked to run it, it comes up with an error message,

here's the error log:

I/O warning : failed to load external entity "./inewsstand.xml"
error : Resource temporarily unavailable
I/O warning : failed to load external entity "http://www.feedbooks.com/newsstand/initializing"
error : Resource temporarily unavailable
I/O warning : failed to load external entity "http://www.feedbooks.com/newsstand/initializing"


any help would be appreciated :)

I have my wireless network link up and when start iNewsStand green led is flashing all the time.
"Brick bar" at the bottom is alive showing black "brick" traveling and nothing else is happening. Is this (or your download target) on your CF card? There is a problem downloading to the CF card via WiFi, see The Guardian 24 automatic download (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=165593&postcount=22). I can't tell if iNewsStand is designed to work around this or not.

There is a problem downloading to the CF card via WiFi, see The Guardian 24 automatic download (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=165593&postcount=22). I can't tell if iNewsStand is designed to work around this or not.

It downloads directly to your storage media of choice. In my case CF which resulted in problems.

I've put the unzipped file on my iliad and clicked to run it, it comes up with an error message,

here's the error log:

I/O warning : failed to load external entity "./inewsstand.xml"
error : Resource temporarily unavailable
I/O warning : failed to load external entity "http://www.feedbooks.com/newsstand/initializing"
error : Resource temporarily unavailable
I/O warning : failed to load external entity "http://www.feedbooks.com/newsstand/initializing"


any help would be appreciated :)

Seems like it had a problem accessing the XML resource on our end. Maybe you should try again ?

If you put the same RSS feed that you use in Mobipocket into Feedbook the output is truncated. Any way to fix that?

Hi There,Bonjour,

I have tried several times to upload RSS and Newspapers unsuccessfully so I decided to seek help from the EXPERTS... I am aware of the fact that the CF that I am using can be a problem when downloading using a wireless connection, however, each time I was able to download one of several ebooks successfully, which were located in the folder internal memory/Books (that makes me assume that it can be possible to download newspapers as well). The internal memory/Newspaper folder stay desperately empty each time...:blink:
Would you be kind as to let me know how I could solve that issue. I did follow some advices from the other forum (...start downloading RSS first, one by one and then newspapers...) unsuccessfully!!!

Hadrien, Merci infiniment d'avoir creer le web site Feedbooks.com mais aussi un ingenieux logiciel tel que inewstand. j'espere vivement pouvoir le faire marcher...


Thanks a million for your help,
Merci d'avance pour tout


Take good care,

D.

I have iNewsStand working with my new iLiad I just got Friday (novice ILiad user, but linux experience), and its quite nice. But I have a few problems and questions.

Is there a way to easily cleanup the old news downloads? Can it be done automatically?

Is a crossword puzzle planned for the future?

Tech News downloads but doesn't open.

Likewise, I setup an RSS feed for JKOnTheRun. It downloads but will not open.

Any sugestions? Thanks.

1st: I cant read greek rss (xml) . With mobipocket i can.
2nd: With feedbooks u can read the titles and not the articles.
3rd: If u want to download and read a book is ok....

Is there a solution to read greek rss and all the articles of them? Feebooks had a very good idea but they have to fix some problems like those i said above.

Hello everyone,

First of all, the current version of the software is still more of a test version than anything else. Book downloads already work perfectly (aside from the CF issue).
For the RSS feeds, you can experience bugs related to the software on the iLiad or to the service itself. We're still focusing on finishing all of our features for books on the service, and the RSS part is not as fully ready.
The main problem that we have is that our iLiad is dead and iRex haven't released yet their new development tools. Once that we can work on the iLiad again, we'll improve the software (the UI for example could be much better).

Heres a few answers:
- Cleaning up old downloads: We could let the user select to include or not the date in the filename. Without the date, it would overwrite the old file.
- Full feeds/Partial feeds: We don't truncate the feeds unlike what Alcuith said. Actually some websites use partial feeds with just a few sentences instead of the full article. We don't plan on extracting the content on our own for 2 reasons. First of all, I'm not sure that this would be legal. But it would also take a lot of resources on our side to handle such a thing for thousands of users. If you'd like a full feed for a website that only provides a partial one, I would advise you to send an e-mail to the webmaster or to create a full feed yourself with a service such as Dapper.
- Foreign languages: Currently, we don't have a way to detect the language of the text. For PDF (LaTeX) we need this information to correctly encode the characters. This won't be an issue with Mobipocket and ePub though, once we add support for these 2 formats for our RSS feature. We'll probably move to Prince XML for our PDF output in the future, which should fix this problem for PDF files too.

I just purchased the Iliad and installed the inewsstand on CF and not internal memory. Whenever I download feeds or books it says it is downloaded but when I try to open them up nothing happens. It shows the actually size of the document in my reader but will not open. Is it because it is on CF?

Is it because it is on CF?

Yes, at the moment there is a bug on the iLiad when it downloads directly to CF. Your best bet is to either use an MMC card or the internal storage.

thanks

Hi,

This software is great ! Is the code source available ?

I'm working on a new API for Feedbooks, this time the whole service will be fully RESTful and this should enable much much more features.

I'll release full documentation when everything is ready and we'll provide a C++ library too.

So until there the source code is not available to download ?

So until there the source code is not available to download ?

Yes it is, I've just sent an e-mail to Adam about it (I don't have access to the SVN for this project from my laptop).

Great ! thanks, keep me informed

Here's the latest version of the source that I have. It was used to make the binary posted in this thread.

Thanks a lot !

(Just to know if I can modify what I want, is this under GPL license ?)

Thanks a lot !

(Just to know if I can modify what I want, is this under GPL license ?)

Sure but keep in mind that the API will evolve in the near future.

We'll have a RESTful API.
For exemple you'll be able to access a book in XML with this type of request: GET /book/id.xml
or in JSON: GET /book/id.json

To search for a book it'll be: GET /books/search?query=yourquery
... for an author: GET /authors/search?query=yourquery

We'll have tons of resources available this way. The first version of the API will be mostly GET requests (read) but we'll add the possibility to create books, authors, newspapers in the second release (the rest of the CRUD actions: Create, Update and Delete).

I've included an example of a search with the new API. If you'd like to study examples of REST API, try Digg or Twitter.

Well ... Im in a hurry to see that ! It'll open great opportunities to improve book access !!!

ps : paris, france ? c'est francais feedbook ?

EDIT : héhéhé ... oui en effet, il y a même quelques commentaires en français qui trainent ;)

I didn't thought it would be that simple the create a connexion with the iLiad !! Actually, I wanna create a download platform for this device and I wonder how does your server work on feedBook ?

ARggg ^^ ... I can't compile iNewsStand for the iLiad, how do you do this ?

(if I try with the WMware image, I get an error with gtk+-2.0 ... and if I try with KDevelop I have problems like "skipping incompatible /PATH/lerdm.so" for example...)

Hello Hadrien,

sorry, have you sorted out the errors like:
FATAL ERROR - Can not get XML: http://www.feedbooks.com/newsstand/initializing?

It seems like I cann't connect in iNewsStand after my device was repaired in iRex... (it was returning on this days)

I couldn't discover the point "default profile" in Network profiles. In a case of pressing the iDS button the connection with IRex resource is established normally. But when I try to connect via ConnectionMgr_script and after that run the dillo browser - the browser doesn't see any site... it's very strange cause I use the same software packages like before the device was shipped to iRex service.

Any ideas, guys?

Just took a look at this XML file and it's still available and working (initializing is the first XML file called when you use the API).

Just wondering when the Sudoku's will be fixed? They have been "disabled" for awhile. Thanks.

Just wondering when the Sudoku's will be fixed? They have been "disabled" for awhile. Thanks.

As soon as I have enough time to work on it. We've just launched a vastly improved RSS feature and a new API, I need some time to complete everything and make sure that everything works fine.

Ok, thanks for the update. It used to be that the Sudoku was one of the few things that worked. I have noticed that more of the RSS feeds are working now though. Please keep up the good work!

Ok, thanks for the update. It used to be that the Sudoku was one of the few things that worked. I have noticed that more of the RSS feeds are working now though. Please keep up the good work!

The RSS part is completely different now: it's much faster, support a lot more feeds and there's even a Mobipocket or ePub output. I use it myself every morning and it only takes a few seconds to generate and download all my feeds.

I'll add new pages too to browse through feeds and newspapers and thanks to our new API it should be super easy for a developer to create new applications using Feedbooks (http://www.feedbooks.com/help/iphone#stanza is a very good example).

Hadrien, regarding the newspapers. I wasn't manage yesterday to create the .mobi-file or pdf-file with newspaper (although it was downloaded judging by downloading state). However there wasn't any trouble with a simple feed.

suppose this old bug hasn't been corrected yet?

Thanks a lot

Hadrien, regarding the newspapers. I wasn't manage yesterday to create the .mobi-file or pdf-file with newspaper (although it was downloaded judging by downloading state). However there wasn't any trouble with a simple feed.

suppose this old bug hasn't been corrected yet?

Thanks a lot

It wasn't exactly a bug: the problem is that generating a newspaper with multiple feeds took too long and therefore did a timeout on nginx. This should be fixed with most of the newspapers now, what your newspaper's id ?

that's the private newspaper: http://www.feedbooks.com/newspaper/2367

that's the private newspaper: http://www.feedbooks.com/newspaper/2367

I don't see a single RSS feed in it.

If it's private, it might not work as the moment as I'm working on a unified authentification system (cookies, sessions, HTTP Basic Auth and parameters).

I don't see a single RSS feed in it.

If it's private, it might not work as the moment as I'm working on a unified authentification system (cookies, sessions, HTTP Basic Auth and parameters).

hmm, yes, I've deleted feeds from it yesterday... How to delete the whole newspaper?

Btw, Hadrien, is it possibile to download the news via iDS button pressing (Automatic Downloaders Framework (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26064)) in background mode? I guess it would be useful a lot :)
Upps, sorry - I found the answer :)

Should be very easy to download in the background.
Basically there's 2 solutions:
1) you manually enter the URIs of your feeds/newspapers and the script wget them
2) you create a small script that could parse your XML listing the subscriptions on Feedbooks and get them

Thomas is working on such a thing, you should probably ask him.

Too bad that you deleted the content in the newspaper, I could've probably test it and see if there's a real problem on it.

Too bad that you deleted the content in the newspaper, I could've probably test it and see if there's a real problem on it.

Hadrian, I've restored the content - please find out it

Hadrian, I've restored the content - please find out it

There's a problem with the second feed. Might be because it's in cyrillic, I'll have to do a few test. First one in the newspaper works fine.