Full-article blog, fetch, table of contents

[surf]

I'm trying to fetch a full-article blog RSS.
In my recipe, the value use_embedded_content was set to True.

Since each item of the blog feeds is a very long article, the page of table of contents in the resulting ePub turn out be very long!

I wonder whether I can shorten the stuff shown in the TOC page, or simply retain only the title of each feed in the TOC page.

It seems that the Calibre API does not allow this modifcation.

Did anybody tried to solve this?

Thanks for sharing your solution!

[kovidgoyal]

I dont understand the issue. Are you saying there are too many entries in the table of contents. Since each entry corresponds to an article, that would imply for entire epub is too long as well.

[surf]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

I dont understand the issue. Are you saying there are too many entries in the table of contents. Since each entry corresponds to an article, that would imply for entire epub is too long as well.

Hi, Kovid, Thanks a lot for your response!

Pls let me give you a example.

The first pic, the problematic one, shows a redundant TOC page of an ePub fetched from full-article RSS feed with built-in functionality.

My question is, whether it's possible to control/remove the introductory contents under each article title from the TOC page.

The second pic shows a very concise TOC page of an ePub fetched from full-article RSS feed with customized parse_index() recipe.

Thanks!

[kovidgoyal]

Sure you can control pretty much everything in a recipe by simply overriding the base class functionality. In your case you will want to override the parse_feesdd function to remove the description from the feeds.

[surf]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Sure you can control pretty much everything in a recipe by simply overriding the base class functionality. In your case you will want to override the parse_feesdd function to remove the description from the feeds.

I spent 2+ hours studying parse_feeds.
But it seems to be much more difficult than understand parse_index.

Could you kindly provide some clues on how to remove the description?

Thanks!

[kovidgoyal]

Call the base class parse_feeds, iterate over the returned value setting the description to an empty string for each entry.

[surf]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Call the base class parse_feeds, iterate over the returned value setting the description to an empty string for each entry.

Done with following codes

def parse_feeds(self):

feeds = BasicNewsRecipe.parse_feeds(self)

for currFeed in feeds:
for a,currArticle in enumerate(currFeed.articles):
currArticle.summary = ''

return feeds

Thank you!

[surf]

Originally Posted by surf

Done with following codes

def parse_feeds(self):

feeds = BasicNewsRecipe.parse_feeds(self)

for currFeed in feeds:
for a,currArticle in enumerate(currFeed.articles):
currArticle.summary = ''

return feeds

Thank you!

Sorry. It doesnot work.

currArticle.summary = '' would delete all the article content.

currArticle.text_summary is OK for the job.

Thanks!

[surf]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Call the base class parse_feeds, iterate over the returned value setting the description to an empty string for each entry.

Hi, Kovid,

Could you advise how to change the time format showing in the left picture above?

I cann't figure out how to handle the following properties of the Article object

formatted_date
date


Thanks!

[surf]

Already done with following code

from calibre import strftime

    def parse_feeds(self):

        feeds = BasicNewsRecipe.parse_feeds(self)

        for currFeed in feeds:
            for a,currArticle in enumerate(currFeed.articles):
                 currArticle.text_summary =  ''
                 currArticle.formatted_date =  strftime('[%Y.%m.%d]',currArticle.date)
 
        return feeds

Thanks!