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krunk · 09-17-2010, 05:26 PM

I'd like to set calibre up on a cron schedule for automatic downloading without having to start up the application.

There are some stock recipes that I use to pull down news feeds and such. I noticed with the command line utility ebook-convert, you can get a list of built-in recipes.

But how do you use a built in recipe from the list?

I tried:

Code:

ebook-convert "New York Times Top Stories" nyt.mobi

But it appears ebook-convert only takes files as args. Do I need to do something like go to the Customize menu, "Customize builtin recipe", then copy and paste from the advanced into a *.recipe file, and call it that way?

09-17-2010, 05:26 PM	#2747
krunk Member Posts: 19 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Los Angeles, CA Device: Kindle 3	I'd like to set calibre up on a cron schedule for automatic downloading without having to start up the application. There are some stock recipes that I use to pull down news feeds and such. I noticed with the command line utility ebook-convert, you can get a list of built-in recipes. But how do you use a built in recipe from the list? I tried: Code: ebook-convert "New York Times Top Stories" nyt.mobi But it appears ebook-convert only takes files as args. Do I need to do something like go to the Customize menu, "Customize builtin recipe", then copy and paste from the advanced into a *.recipe file, and call it that way?