Custom recipes (archive, read-only)

[gambarini]

vvv.ilmessaggero.it

better viewing, new cover image

the cover show the First Page of the NewsPaper.

vvv.leggo.it

better viewing, new cover image

the cover show the First Page of the NewsPaper.

[k27star]

Hi! I'm coming out of my lurking state to ask for some help. I have tried making a custom recipe for my local paper (The Register Guard), but since the feeds run through feedburner I'm having quite a bit of difficulty due to my lack of technical skills.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you have any suggestions on what code to use to work with feedburner or if you can easily whip up a full custom recipe, I'd really appreciate whatever I can get!

The feeds can be found here:

http://www2.registerguard.com/cms/in...ges/feeds/#rss

I was hoping to do all of them except the Springfield Extra. Thanks again!

[DesktopGeneral]

I've been trying to get this recipe to work for the newspaper Roll Call. The only thing that is not working is the print version return. I'm still getting the full version. Any help would be appreciated. I don't know python, but I pieced this together form other recipes.

The recipe is below

class AdvancedUserRecipe1273837220(BasicNewsRecipe):
title = u'Roll Call'
oldest_article = 7
max_articles_per_feed = 100
no_stylesheets = True
use_embedded_content = False
needs_subscription = True

feeds = [(u'Roll Call', u'http://www.rollcall.com/issues/index.xml')]

def get_browser(self):
br = BasicNewsRecipe.get_browser()
if self.username is not None and self.password is not None:
br.open('http://www.rollcall.com/login')
br.select_form(name='login_form')
br['login_id'] = self.username
br['login_pwd'] = self.password
br.submit('submit')
return br

def print_version(self, url):
return url + '?type=printer_friendly'

[gambarini]

Basically, you use the parse_index method when you want to control the title, description and/or date on that page, and already know the URL. A common use is when you can't parse an RSS feed automatically, and have to parse a web page to get the URL. However, I've never actually used it for that. Instead, I use it when I can figure out the URL in advance, because it's simple and there is no page or RSS feed. (I believe I used it for several comics recipes to pull the previous comics). Those recipes should be in this thread somewhere under my name.

I have the correct link, but no the title; so, i must override the title tag (that is null) with the correct title, obtained from the downloaded article.
I'll try;
my next step is to create a recipe that fetch from site with complete pdf newspaper to merge the real newspaper (in pdf) and the html version on the site.

Now i have in beta test () 3 or 4 recipe on blog about hardware/software and android.

as soon as possible...

[gambarini]

Originally Posted by DesktopGeneral

I've been trying to get this recipe to work for the newspaper Roll Call. The only thing that is not working is the print version return. I'm still getting the full version. Any help would be appreciated. I don't know python, but I pieced this together form other recipes.

The recipe is below

class AdvancedUserRecipe1273837220(BasicNewsRecipe):
title = u'Roll Call'
oldest_article = 7
max_articles_per_feed = 100
no_stylesheets = True
use_embedded_content = False
needs_subscription = True

feeds = [(u'Roll Call', u'http://www.rollcall.com/issues/index.xml')]

def get_browser(self):
br = BasicNewsRecipe.get_browser()
if self.username is not None and self.password is not None:
br.open('http://www.rollcall.com/login')
br.select_form(name='login_form')
br['login_id'] = self.username
br['login_pwd'] = self.password
br.submit('submit')
return br

def print_version(self, url):
return url + '?type=printer_friendly'

try this:

def print_version(self, url):
       link =url + '?type=printer_friendly'
       print link

and look yourself if something wrong.

[DesktopGeneral]

def print_version(self, url):
link =url + '?type=printer_friendly'
print link

Thanks for the response. Unfortunately, that does not work. With that, the recipe returns nothing. Completely blank. Any other ideas?

Here is the recipe again.

class AdvancedUserRecipe1273837220(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title = u'Roll Call'
    oldest_article = 7
    max_articles_per_feed = 100
    no_stylesheets = True
    use_embedded_content  = False    
    needs_subscription = True
    
    feeds 	= [(u'Roll Call', u'http://www.rollcall.com/issues/index.xml')]

    def get_browser(self):
	br = BasicNewsRecipe.get_browser()
	if self.username is not None and self.password is not None:
		br.open('http://www.rollcall.com/login')
		br.select_form(name='login_form')
		br['login_id']   = self.username
		br['login_pwd'] = self.password
		br.submit('submit')
	return br

    def print_version(self, url):
	return url + '?type=printer_friendly

[cscannella]

Originally Posted by kiklop74

Updated recipe for instapaper.com:

Will this be packaged into an update of Calibre?

[gambarini]

Originally Posted by DesktopGeneral

Thanks for the response. Unfortunately, that does not work. With that, the recipe returns nothing. Completely blank. Any other ideas?

The print instruction is a debug metod; launch the recipe from calibre, then view the log of the job.
In the log you can see the valour of the variable LINK (print LINK ! ! ), so you can look yourself what is wrong.

Actually return blank because there isn't the instruction "RETURN LINK".

[kiklop74]

Originally Posted by cscannella

Will this be packaged into an update of Calibre?

Yes. Kovid will do that.

[cscannella]

Originally Posted by kiklop74

Yes. Kovid will do that.

Excellent. Thanks for the response!

[gambarini]

Originally Posted by gambarini

vvv.ilmessaggero.it

better viewing, new cover image

the cover show the First Page of the NewsPaper.

vvv.leggo.it

better viewing, new cover image

the cover show the First Page of the NewsPaper.

Another slightly modify to the recipe for Leggo (it)

and for the recipe Libero-News

[gambarini]

Now i try to include in all recipe (when exist) the first page of the printed newspaper.
In my opinion it's a good preview of the content of the recipe.

[dfigueroa]

Okay, I'm officially a clueless newbie...I actually thought this was a thread on recipes for food, rofl.

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by dfigueroa

Okay, I'm officially a clueless newbie...I actually thought this was a thread on recipes for food, rofl.

It's not, but we do have some posts in this thread on recipes (Calibre-style) for recipes (food)! Search for Epicurious, or see the Epicurious built-in recipe.

[nook.life]

Any update on creating a recipe for this? Thanks so much guys, I really appreciate all of the hard work you do to help us out!!!

Originally Posted by nook.life

Could someone please make a recipe for Cyanide & Happiness?

I have tried and miserably failed. The problem is that the RSS feed does not include any comics like xkcd does and I have not been able to find a feed that does.

The website is http://www.explosm.net/comics/
and the RSS is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Explosm

I know someone requested this recipe yesterday in the wrong thread
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...nide+happiness

but it did not seem to make it on here. Thanks!