Updated rss2book

geekraver · 11-02-2006, 03:42 AM

Just wanted to let people know there's an update. You can now follow links in feeds and do some custom post-processing. For example, you can now get a nice BBC news book by using the following feed settings:

Name: BBC News
Url: http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonl...t_page/rss.xml
LinkElement: guid
LinkProcessor: get http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/$link

Enjoy, and if you come up with other good examples and/or post-processing scripts please share them.

heavyB · 11-02-2006, 06:21 PM

I love it geekraver (I need to macro that statement for future posts!)

Can you expound a little on what the $link variable expresses? Is it the content of the LinkElement? I'm having a bit of a lerning curve on working this out.

For instance, I'm attempting the following, which by all examiniation of the BBC example, should work (?!)

Site: Reuters Top Stories
URL: http://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/topNews/
LineElement: guid
LinkProcessor: get http://today.reuters.com/misc/PrinterFriendlyPopup.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=$li nk

A sample GUID tag for this RSS feed is:
<guid isPermaLink="false">2006-11-02T233457Z_01_N02182890_RTRUKOC_0_US-USA-ELECTIONS-BUSH.xml</guid>

If I paste what I think it's trying to compile in RSS2book by using the GUID contents as represented by $link, it should give this:
http://today.reuters.com/misc/Printe...TIONS-BUSH.xml

It yields the print version in a brower, but no go in RSS2book.

Thanks for your efforts...

geekraver · 11-02-2006, 07:36 PM

Hmmm, let me look into this tonight. Your configuration looks right and it *should* work, so there must be a bug.

geekraver · 11-02-2006, 07:41 PM

It's possible that this is because the page has lots of Javascript and other noise. I do plan to include the ability to specify a regular expression to extract a subset of the page, which will help in many cases.

heavyB · 11-02-2006, 08:26 PM

Thanks for taking a look...

I don't claim to know anything about how rss2book is developed, but would it be pratical to build & pass your smart links to htmlDoc for the html extraction as opposed to .NET? It seems to handle anything you throw at it.

Please don't feel obligated to educate me on how you do things, I wouldn't be offended by a "no"

11-02-2006, 03:42 AM	#1
geekraver Addict Posts: 364 Karma: 1035291 Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Redmond, WA Device: iPad Mini,Kindle Paperwhite	Updated rss2book Just wanted to let people know there's an update. You can now follow links in feeds and do some custom post-processing. For example, you can now get a nice BBC news book by using the following feed settings: Name: BBC News Url: http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonl...t_page/rss.xml LinkElement: guid LinkProcessor: get http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/$link Enjoy, and if you come up with other good examples and/or post-processing scripts please share them.

11-02-2006, 06:21 PM	#2
heavyB Member Posts: 23 Karma: 47 Join Date: Oct 2006 Device: Sony Reader/Treo 600	I love it geekraver (I need to macro that statement for future posts!) Can you expound a little on what the $link variable expresses? Is it the content of the LinkElement? I'm having a bit of a lerning curve on working this out. For instance, I'm attempting the following, which by all examiniation of the BBC example, should work (?!) Site: Reuters Top Stories URL: http://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/topNews/ LineElement: guid LinkProcessor: get http://today.reuters.com/misc/PrinterFriendlyPopup.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=$li nk A sample GUID tag for this RSS feed is: <guid isPermaLink="false">2006-11-02T233457Z_01_N02182890_RTRUKOC_0_US-USA-ELECTIONS-BUSH.xml</guid> If I paste what I think it's trying to compile in RSS2book by using the GUID contents as represented by $link, it should give this: http://today.reuters.com/misc/Printe...TIONS-BUSH.xml It yields the print version in a brower, but no go in RSS2book. Thanks for your efforts... Last edited by heavyB; 11-02-2006 at 07:33 PM. Reason: Added example

11-02-2006, 08:26 PM	#5
heavyB Member Posts: 23 Karma: 47 Join Date: Oct 2006 Device: Sony Reader/Treo 600	Thanks for taking a look... I don't claim to know anything about how rss2book is developed, but would it be pratical to build & pass your smart links to htmlDoc for the html extraction as opposed to .NET? It seems to handle anything you throw at it. Please don't feel obligated to educate me on how you do things, I wouldn't be offended by a "no" Last edited by heavyB; 11-02-2006 at 08:27 PM. Reason: Because I obviously can't spell

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11-02-2006, 07:36 PM	#3
geekraver Addict Posts: 364 Karma: 1035291 Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Redmond, WA Device: iPad Mini,Kindle Paperwhite	Hmmm, let me look into this tonight. Your configuration looks right and it should work, so there must be a bug.

11-02-2006, 07:41 PM	#4
geekraver Addict Posts: 364 Karma: 1035291 Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Redmond, WA Device: iPad Mini,Kindle Paperwhite	It's possible that this is because the page has lots of Javascript and other noise. I do plan to include the ability to specify a regular expression to extract a subset of the page, which will help in many cases.

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