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nicolash · 09-03-2012, 07:27 AM

Hi!

There is a webpage (URL) that gets updated daily. There is no rss feed.

Basically I would like to write a recipe that grabs the contents of that single URL and formats it into an epub for me once a day.

My first approach, to just add the URL to the feeds variable gives me an epub with all the contents of the URL including its html tags - with no formatting at all.

I flipped through the API documentation but only found the 'use_embedded_content' variable, which might be the correct direction? However I feel being trapped by having the URL content interpreted as rss and not as "news content".

Any clue how to process webpages without the help of rss feeds?
Thank you!

09-03-2012, 07:27 AM	#1
nicolash Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2012 Device: Sony PRS-T2	Recipe without rss feed? Hi! There is a webpage (URL) that gets updated daily. There is no rss feed. Basically I would like to write a recipe that grabs the contents of that single URL and formats it into an epub for me once a day. My first approach, to just add the URL to the feeds variable gives me an epub with all the contents of the URL including its html tags - with no formatting at all. I flipped through the API documentation but only found the 'use_embedded_content' variable, which might be the correct direction? However I feel being trapped by having the URL content interpreted as rss and not as "news content". Any clue how to process webpages without the help of rss feeds? Thank you!