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mobilereader72 · 05-30-2009, 02:48 PM

Hi,

I'm rather new to this, but is there an easy way to use the pubdate information for the print_version of a custom news source?

For example, the article link is at:

Code:

http://www.somewebsite.com/.../article_idnumber

But print version is at:

Code:

http://www.somewebsite.com/.../print/20090529/idnumber

The 20090529 is the pubdate identified in the article link above. Whereas the pubdate is listed in the xml source as

Code:

<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 23:31 -0400</pubDate>

Calibre seems to be able to parse the pubdate fine using the BasicNewsRecipe. So is there some sort of global variable I can use to include the pubdate in my print_version url?

For example:

Code:

def print_version(self, url): 
   return 'http://www.somewebsite.com/../print/' + pubdate + '/' + url.rsplit('/article_')[1]

From what I've read in the documentation, I will need to parse the feeds again using the parse_feeds() function in order to extract the pubdate data. Is this correct? Does anyone have any examples on how do do this? I can't seem to find any recipes that use the parse_feeds() function.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

05-30-2009, 02:48 PM	#1
mobilereader72 Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2009 Device: multiple	Using PubDate in print_version of custom news source Hi, I'm rather new to this, but is there an easy way to use the pubdate information for the print_version of a custom news source? For example, the article link is at: Code: http://www.somewebsite.com/.../article_idnumber But print version is at: Code: http://www.somewebsite.com/.../print/20090529/idnumber The 20090529 is the pubdate identified in the article link above. Whereas the pubdate is listed in the xml source as Code: <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 23:31 -0400</pubDate> Calibre seems to be able to parse the pubdate fine using the BasicNewsRecipe. So is there some sort of global variable I can use to include the pubdate in my print_version url? For example: Code: def print_version(self, url): return 'http://www.somewebsite.com/../print/' + pubdate + '/' + url.rsplit('/article_')[1] From what I've read in the documentation, I will need to parse the feeds again using the parse_feeds() function in order to extract the pubdate data. Is this correct? Does anyone have any examples on how do do this? I can't seem to find any recipes that use the parse_feeds() function. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!