Script to Generate Stanza Online Catalog for your Iphone/Touch

[yankeespitfire]

I don't know if this can help, I installed 6.8 on an OSX box. Still no luck with the catalog. Attached the output of the debug.

[kovidgoyal]

Is stanza autodetecting the calibre feed or are you entering it manually?

[yankeespitfire]

I've tried it on 3 different touch's, had to manually enter it on all 3. Had to enter it as "http://xxx.xxx.xxx:808x/stanza/" on all 3 as well, I get an empty catalog with just the iport entered.

[kovidgoyal]

Ah, that explains it. Stanza rather stupidly doesn't send the correct headers when you ad a catalog manually. I will add a workaround for this in the next release.

[ghyatt]

When will the next version be?

Till it is fixed I hack a fast PHP script that works:

<?php
$host = 'mistress';
$port = 8080;
$script = 'stanza.php';

// START
$calibre = "sed 's/ href=\"/ href=\"http:\/\/{$host}:{$port}/'";
$here = "sed 's/ href=\"\// href=\"http:\/\/{$host}\/{$script}/'";

if (empty($_GET['authorid']))
{ $str = makecmd('sortby=byauthor', $here); }
else { $str = makecmd("authorid={$_GET['authorid']}", $calibre); }

passthru($str);
exit;

function makecmd($cmd, $sed) {
return <<<CMD
calibre-debug -c "from calibre import browser; br = browser(); print br.open('http://localhost:8080/stanza/?$cmd').read()" | $sed
CMD;
}

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Ah, that explains it. Stanza rather stupidly doesn't send the correct headers when you ad a catalog manually. I will add a workaround for this in the next release.

[kovidgoyal]

Just unzip the attached file, and in a terminal run

calibre-debug -u calibre.library.server server.py

where server.py comes from the zipped file

[ghyatt]

Thank you, that works great..

[yankeespitfire]

That did the trick nicely. Many Thanks!!

[TomHiggins]

Not having an iPhone I never had this problem, but tonight I showed off Calibre to an iPhone owning friend. No dice, empty catalogs..much sadness. I did a quick search around found your patch. Hats off to you sir, it worked perfect.

Thnak much for your spot on patch and for calibre in general. Great app

[jseligma]

Many thanks, Kovid. That solved my original problem.

[ilovejedd]

Kovid, thanks so much for adding hierarchical views to the Stanza catalog!

Mucked around the 0.6.10 source code and did some copy/paste/edit to add sort by tag and series. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to submit the code so I'm just posting my modified server.py here.

Again, thank you very very much for Calibre!

[kovidgoyal]

Thanks are due to lbigelow, the category code is his. Can you open a ticket and attach your patch. I'll look at it when I have a moment and taht way I won't forget.

[kjk]

Wow, I just tried this online catalog thing for fun, and it works great! Thanks!