Custom recipes (archive, read-only)

[kiklop74]

Argentinian SF online magazine - Axxon:

[GRiker]

Originally Posted by PaxtonReader

G and Kovid - I appreciate the time you take with people's small problems. You have written a great program and offer terrific support.

Fix for archiving periodicals on Kindle will be in next release. Thanks for the kind words.

G

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by PaxtonReader

G and Kovid - I appreciate the time you take with people's small problems. You have written a great program and offer terrific support.

I'm glad to see the folks who had a chance to troubleshoot this problem correctly were able to figure it out.

[kovidgoyal]

@hansd: Why are you replicating the download cover functionality from BasicNewsRecipe in your recipes?

[hansd]

@kovid,

I need to dowload a cover image to replace the default library and I still want the rest of the cover layout. I looked at the source of BasicRecipe to see if I could hook into the existing code, but could not find a way hence.

Reviewing now the current/resulting code, could indeed the _download_cover_img() be replaced with a call to _dowload_cover, renaming the file and doing the extra work.
I started out with modification more deeply in the code, but the resulting code can indeed be more elegant. Thanks for asking the question/making the remark. I'll make the adjustments later.

PS: if default_cover could take a variable for the default_image, that part of the code duplication could also be eliminated

[hansd]

updated recipes, with less code duplication (functionality the same)

[Ulyssesfi]

Hello!
After tryiyng for two weeks to make an recipe for an brazilian newspaper feed, I give up!
If someone more able could build an recipe for
http://www.estadao.com.br/rss/
it will be great.

(it´s the same newspaper of the recipe |portuguese|estado de são paulo, (this one don´t work for me))...

[kiklop74]

What is your problem with the existi Estado de S. Paulo recipe? Is it working or not?

[kiklop74]

The Estadao de s. paulo was not working due to a site change. Here is the updated recipe:

[kool]

Request: Pls add these newspaper to fetch news

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Hello Kovid,

I hope you are doing fine. Thanks for having two newspaper from Pakistan in "Fetch news" option.

Can you please add following newspappers as well:

http://www.brecorder.com/
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/

Also if possible, please add following local daily:
http://www.jang.com.pk/

I will really appreciate your help.

[gambarini]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

@gamabarini: Some sites give you forbidden error s if you try to download too many files from them in a short time. Use the delay setting to add some delay between downloads

i have tried with 10 seconds of delay setting, but the message is the same:

"httperror_seek_wrapper: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden"

[Ulyssesfi]

Originally Posted by kiklop74

The Estadao de s. paulo was not working due to a site change. Here is the updated recipe:

Thanks for the recipe, my friend....

[gambarini]

Originally Posted by gambarini

i have tried with 10 seconds of delay setting, but the message is the same:

"httperror_seek_wrapper: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden"

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 758-760: invalid data

[square4761]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

It may be a temporary error with their website. Can someone else who uses WSJ comment if it is working for them?

You were right, it is now working as of today. Thank you.

[EnergyLens]

Here is a recipe to download any blog hosted by blogspot provided the author uses the Blog Archive widget. You can specify specific Months and Years to download. years=[] will download all years; months=[] will download all months.

To customize this recipe for your target blog:

Within class Blogger:
1. Edit the name and description to reflect the blog you are targeting
2. Edit the INDEX to point to the root URL for the blog you are targeting

Withing "def parse_index"

1. For all years set years=[]
2. For specific years set years to a list of targets: years=['2010','2007']
3. For all months set months=[]
4. For specific months set months to a list of targets: months=['January']