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Originally Posted by davidfor

Did you read PeterT's post and your second post? You said you could use crontab if there was a command to do the news download. That's what PeterT post was about. You will have to do the scheduling yourself, but you can create a crontab job for each recipe or one big one for all recipes.

IF there was a command to do the news download. That's a big if.

Peter's post lists two different commands:

/opt/calibre/ebook-convert --help
Convert an ebook from one format to another.
and:
/opt/calibre/calibre-smtp --help
Send mail using the SMTP protocol.
Which one just downloads news? Peter didn't say. The --help feature of each doesn't mention fetching news, so unless you can demonstrate how to use ebook-convert or calibre-smtp just ti initiate a news fetch from the command line, then it looks to me like they weren't designed to do that.

One is for converting one book to another format, the other for sending books by email. NEITHER ONE can be used from the command line to download scheduled news feeds, can they? So no, his non sequitur does not tell me how to initiate a news download from the command line. Using crontab isn't the problem. Using crontab is a fricking piece of cake. So if
ebook-convert or calibre-smtp has an undocumented feature of fetching news from the command line, then pray tell precisely how. I don't see any documentation on it, nor is it intuitive.