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Originally Posted by markwaters
Normally a RSS feed contains a number of articles which contain the title and the body of the text.
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There are various RSS feed formats. Some have the body in the feed, some have only a short summary and a link to the body. Calibre's recipe system can handle all. By default, if the body is longer than 500 characters, Calibre will assume the body is in the feed, and if it's shorter, Calibre will assume the link has the article and retrieve the link. You can force either behavior.
You are asking about non-RSS feeds, aka a "linklog" or just a page that has links. Calibre can handle those as well. As I posted, parse_index is the tool for that job.
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If I use my current (working) RSS feed recipe I will end up with an ebook containing links to articles.
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I suspect that's because it's not an RSS feed, even though it may sort of look like one.
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I am hoping to have calibre go to the next link and pull that article in instead.
Does that make more sense ?
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It made sense the first time. Use parse_index and see the NYT example. You have to craft code to grab the links and create a virtual feed inside the recipe. That's what parse_index does - you tell it to read the page, how to find the links you want, what titles and summaries and dates to use and it builds the virtual RSS feed then proceeds as though there was a real RSS feed.