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Originally Posted by Starson17
This is normal behavior for a broken recipe The "feed" is standardized, so it almost always works no matter how much a site changes. The feed supplies "the starting menu" and "the summary/blurb bits." The articles vary widely, and as soon as the site changes, the articles disappear, leaving only a blank page and a Calibre-created link to the article source page.
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Lovely...is there a way to resolve it or is it pretty much destined to break everytime the feed changes/adds an article? I have found that a decent chunk of the built in recipes for news feeds I want to grab are doing this same thing, I get the preview blurbs that are part of the RSS feed itself but the complete articles are simply a "this article downloaded from /link here/" and no actual article text.
It seems that is /should/ be grabbing the articles as that is what a number of recipes grab and it appears that it is the intended behaviour, but for whatever reason they are broken in some way that means it isn't grabbing the full text of the articles - the question more importantly is...how do I fix it with literally no understanding of the advanced code portion of modifying a recipe? I know the typical answer to that is probably "learn the code enough to manipulate it" but I do wish to stress that it isn't that I don't /want/ to learn how to manipulate the code, but for whatever reason no matter how badly I wish to learn, my brain is like teflon when it comes to anything related to programming - the information I read never gets absorbed enough for me to make use ot it. And I do come from a technical background, so you'd think I'd at least comprehend the basic gist of it having been exposed to it so much.
Anyway, I'm having this issue with at least Salon, Jezebel, Cracked, and who knows what others I'd like to read if I could, so it would behoove me to figure out how to fix them myself, but barring that, is anyone willing to take a crack at em and see if they just need a simple sort of fix? If not, I'll cope, I haven't been reading them on my previous eReader until trying now, so it isn't like it is the end of the world if I can't have them work, I'm just all excited that I can read some of my news stuff on my new sony prs350 and I want to read more.
