Recipe produces no Images - Please help.

[Onecanuck]

I am the Editor of a weekly newspaper in Canada. We are in the process of buliding a new website, with RSS feeds so that we can have readers subscribe to our feeds and have Calibre port them into eReaders. (ePub format)

The problem I am having is that my Recipe does not fetch our photos. I get the content, but only the text.

I have checked the manual and this forum, but there I fail to locate any indication that Calibre is fussy about what type of web graphic it filters out.

Is there anyone out there that can help me either understand the problem, or even help my create the recipe?

Thank you..
Brian Hahn

[marbs]

try posing your code and the relevant RSS feeds.

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by Onecanuck

I am the Editor of a weekly newspaper in Canada. We are in the process of buliding a new website, with RSS feeds so that we can have readers subscribe to our feeds and have Calibre port them into eReaders. (ePub format)

The problem I am having is that my Recipe does not fetch our photos. I get the content, but only the text.

I have checked the manual and this forum, but there I fail to locate any indication that Calibre is fussy about what type of web graphic it filters out.

Is there anyone out there that can help me either understand the problem, or even help my create the recipe?

Thank you..
Brian Hahn

We'd need to see the RSS feed and/or the pages/articles that the feed points to. Are the images jpgs?

[Onecanuck]

Hi, and thank you for the quick reply.

The images are .jpg files. I first tried .gif but the change did nothing. The website is under development so the feed page address will change after completion.

It is temporarily on a subdomain. The feed can be found at: http://pipestone.inmca.com/feeds.asp. The actual address will be www.pipestoneflyer.ca when the site is moved over.

Like I said before, the text formats perfectly with the recipe wizard in Calibre. But this image problem is confounding. If anyone can help, It would be appreciated.

Thank you..

Brian Hahn
Editor

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by Onecanuck

The feed can be found at: http://pipestone.inmca.com/feeds.asp.

That's not a feed. That page has multiple links to multiple feeds.

Like I said before, the text formats perfectly with the recipe wizard in Calibre. But this image problem is confounding. If anyone can help, It would be appreciated.

Your problem is that your actual feeds have both the full content and images. That's unusual. 95% or more of feeds have just brief summaries with links to pages (the articles) that have the full content. Calibre tries to detect if the feed has full content or links to content. It does that by analyzing the length of the text. When the text is long, (500 plus words IIRC) it will assume all the content is on the feed, and it won't go to the article pages with your images.

You can force Calibre to follow to the articles with:

use_embedded_content = False

Try that and it should go to your article pages and find your images.

[Onecanuck]

Originally Posted by Starson17

That's not a feed. That page has multiple links to multiple feeds.


Your problem is that your actual feeds have both the full content and images. That's unusual. 95% or more of feeds have just brief summaries with links to pages (the articles) that have the full content. Calibre tries to detect if the feed has full content or links to content. It does that by analyzing the length of the text. When the text is long, (500 plus words IIRC) it will assume all the content is on the feed, and it won't go to the article pages with your images.

You can force Calibre to follow to the articles with:

use_embedded_content = False

Try that and it should go to your article pages and find your images.

Hi and thank you for the quick reply,

So this is what I am up to. I downloaded Python and did as you said. I put the changes the embedded condition to FALSE. Now when I run the script, the recipe downloads all images from the website. So in fact it is not really just taking the feed from the RSS files. I have never used Python and the so I am learning as I go.

The following is how my script looks:

class AdvancedUserRecipe1292537099(BasicNewsRecipe):

title = 'Leduc - Wetaskiwin Pipestone Flyer'
__author__ = 'Brian Hahn'
description = 'News from Alberta, Canada'


oldest_article = 14
max_articles_per_feed = 100
no_stylesheets = False
#delay = 1
use_embedded_content = False
encoding = 'utf8'
publisher = 'Pipestone Publishing'
category = 'News, Alberta, Canada'
language = 'en_CA'

feeds = [
('Features Stories', 'http://pipestone.inmca.com/Feature.rss'),
('Editorial Comment', 'http://pipestone.inmca.com/Comments.rss'),
('Letters to the Editor', 'http://pipestone.inmca.com/Opinion.rss'),
('Opinion', 'http://pipestone.inmca.com/Columnists.rss'),
('Sports', 'http://pipestone.inmca.com/Sports.rss'),
('On the Beat', 'http://pipestone.inmca.com/Police%20Blotter.rss'),
('Business News', 'http://pipestone.inmca.com/Chambers.rss'),
('Local Government', 'http://pipestone.inmca.com/Government.rss'),
('Faith', 'http://pipestone.inmca.com/Faith.rss'),

]

I appreciate all your feedback and patience.

Thanks again.

Brian Hahn

[Starson17]

Your heading is "Still no joy" but I don't see a question in your post. Do you have one?

You wrote:

Originally Posted by Onecanuck

Now when I run the script, the recipe downloads all images from the website.

Isn't that what you wanted?

So in fact it is not really just taking the feed from the RSS files.

I'm not sure what this means? It sounds to me like it's working as it's supposed to.