How to include images/photos in the enews?

[bthoven]

Sorry if this has been asked in the past.

I find a few rss site which has photos which I intend to include in the fetched enews. How do I tweak the recipe to include those images. For example:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/rss/space_time.xml
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newscenter_rss.php

Thanks in advance.

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by bthoven

I find a few rss site which has photos which I intend to include in the fetched enews. How do I tweak the recipe to include those images.

The short answer is you don't have to tweak - it's done automatically. The long answer is - it's only done automatically if the image is on the page of the article that the RSS feed points to. There are lots of ways to "tweak" - too many to list here.
Calibre can always get the image, but you need to look at the page to find out where the image is. That will tell you how to tweak to get it to appear.

[bthoven]

Can you try the above two links in my original post? the photos won't come.

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by bthoven

Can you try the above two links in my original post? the photos won't come.

Sorry, I'm swamped. Try posting your recipe in the main recipe thread. I wasn't trying to say that every image can automatically be pulled, just that you don't have to do anything to get normal images. If they don't get pulled, then there's something going on preventing it, and you need to track down why. I just wrote a recipe that pulled one set of images that was different from what appeared on the web page. It turned out to be a referer [sic] issue. In your case, it could be that, or cookies, or scripts, or login issues or any of many different things.

[bthoven]

Thanks for trying. Just want to have some clue why it can't pull the photos.

I may have to go deeper in more technical knowledge.

Thanks again.

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by bthoven

Thanks for trying. Just want to have some clue why it can't pull the photos.

I may have to go deeper in more technical knowledge.

Thanks again.

Because you asked nicely, and because it's Hubble and space related, I checked out the first feed:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/rss/space_time.xml

It pulled the photos for me with the most basic Calibre recipe possible. What are you seeing? You'll need to post your recipe and explain the problem to debug further.

[bthoven]

I simply add the link through calibre interface, no advanced customization from the standard coding. Could you share your recipe?

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by bthoven

I simply add the link through calibre interface, no advanced customization from the standard coding. Could you share your recipe?

from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe

class Test(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title               = 'Test'
    __author__          = 'Starson17'
    description         = 'Test'
    language            = 'en'
    use_embedded_content= False
    no_stylesheets      = True
    oldest_article      = 24
    remove_javascript   = True

    feeds = [
             (u'Current Feed', u'http://www.sciencedaily.com/rss/space_time.xml')
             ]

[bthoven]

Hi Starson17,

Your script works, ie. the photos come, but also many other hyperlinks.

Here is the default script when I simply create it from Calibre gui without any modification, and it show only the feed content without photos:

class AdvancedUserRecipe1268622019(BasicNewsRecipe):
title = u'Science Daily - Space & Time (calibre default)'
oldest_article = 7
max_articles_per_feed = 100

feeds = [(u'Science Daily - Space & Time (calibre default)', u'http://www.sciencedaily.com/rss/space_time.xml')]

What are the key coding differences which pull out the photos in your script?

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by bthoven

Hi Starson17,

Your script works, ie. the photos come, but also many other hyperlinks.

Yes, I know. I was testing to see if the photos would be correctly pulled. I didn't put in any of the restrictions that would have removed other items.

Here is the default script when I simply create it from Calibre gui without any modification, and it show only the feed content without photos:

What are the key coding differences which pull out the photos in your script?

I'd have to test, but it's probably one of these:
use_embedded_content= False
no_stylesheets = True
remove_javascript = True

Just add them one at a time, then read my recent posts in the recipe thread for how to remove the extra junk.