Custom recipes (archive, read-only)

[kovidgoyal]

@EnergyLens: That recipe appears to be for a particular blog, can you add instructions to it on what to change to have it work for another blogspot blog? That would be useful for people trying to customize the recipe.

[nittecat]

Hi,

I would like to see recipe for C4ISR Journal on-line magazine located at
http://www.c4isrjournal.com/story.php?F=magazine

Thanks!

Taci

[EnergyLens]

Directory to eBook

This Script takes an URL to a directory structure that can be accessed via a web server. The target directory is assumed to contain a series of directories each containing a single entry taken (in this instance) from Wikipedia.

I use the Firefox plugin Scrapbook to save entries from Wikipedia that I want to transform into an epub file. I use Scrapbook to clean up the entries to my liking then export them to a directory (Wikipedia) in my local filesystem that is accessible by my local webserver (the Sites directory on a Mac).

The script would need to be modified for how different web servers display directories in html for correct parsing.

You will notice that the script has some sections commented out. I use the script for making books of many different types of web content and extract and add additional elements to the articles dictionary structure. These elements can be used to call the catArticles procedure to structure a feed such that the table of contents is created from these additional elements.

[kiklop74]

New recipe for FOX News:

[rty]

Can any kind soul guru here please post the recipe for the Gulf Times? ( http://www.gulf-times.com )

Thanks

[lenik]

I'm using calibre 0.6.13 under ubuntu 9.10 and trying to get some news on my device. There are feeds which work well, but there's a problem with Slashdot -- all I get is ~8MB files, which cannot be opened on prs-505, it says "formatting" for a while and then eventually reboots.

Is there any way this can be fixed or is there something I do wrong way?

Thanks!

[kovidgoyal]

use the epub output format

[lenik]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

use the epub output format

First, I'd like to thank you for the wonderful program you wrote!!

Second, thank you for the advice -- now Slashdot works perfectly.

Could you please give any hints or advices about the "best" format for PDF books, which removes headers/footers, keeps pictures and allows to reflow the paragraphs to fit smaller screen of prs-505?

Thanks!

[gambarini]

What is the correct way to remove all unnecessary tag from this article?
http://www.lastampa.it/_web/cmstp/tm...ne=29&sezione=

The article is formatted with a table, without attribute...

[gambarini]

Originally Posted by gambarini

What is the correct way to remove all unnecessary tag from this article?
http://www.lastampa.it/_web/cmstp/tm...ne=29&sezione=

The article is formatted with a table, without attribute...

i'll try with a "keep_only_tag" on td attribute value: "tdRight".
Is it a correct way?

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by gambarini

i'll try with a "keep_only_tag" on td attribute value: "tdRight".
Is it a correct way?

The correct way is whatever works. If what you want to remove has no attribute, you can use BeautifulSoup and preprocess_html or postprocess_html to find any part you want to modify.

[kiklop74]

Originally Posted by gambarini

What is the correct way to remove all unnecessary tag from this article?
http://www.lastampa.it/_web/cmstp/tm...ne=29&sezione=

The article is formatted with a table, without attribute...

I would do this (add it to your recipe):

    extra_css = ' .boxocchiello2{font-size: small} .titoloRub{font-size: xx-large; font-weight: bold } .sezione{font-weight: bold} '

    conversion_options = {'linearize_tables':True}

    remove_attributes = ['colspan']

    keep_only_tags = [dict(attrs={'class':['boxocchiello2','titoloRub','sezione','articologirata']})]

[cix3]

class nprmusic(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title = 'NPR Music Blogs'
    __author__ = 'cix3'
    timefmt = ' [%b %d, %Y]'

    oldest_article = 30
    max_articles_per_feed = 100
    no_stylesheets = True

    remove_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'id':['logo', 'comments', 'related_objects', 'inset module', 'footer', 'strip_control', 'header', 'navigation']}), dict(name='hr'), dict(name='img')]

    feeds = [
        ('A Blog Supreme', 'http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/index.xml'),
        ('All Songs Considered', 'http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/index.xml'),
        ('Monitor Mix', 'http://www.npr.org/blogs/monitormix/index.xml')]

[newsfreak]

Please could you post the recipe for www.kurier.at (Austrian Newspaper Kurier).
Thanks

[PaxtonReader]

Originally Posted by GRiker

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

G

Just downloaded the 6.48 version and it works great for archiving my calibre-created periodicals. Thanks for your help!