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Originally Posted by p3aul
Why did Kovid even include something in the application that the average person can't comprehend? It makes no sense to me to have a feature that doesn't work without extensive programming experience.
Paul  |
Web scraping is a complex topic and calibre's framework by default covers only basic cases. It would be fairly difficult and time consuming to create something more user friendly. It can be done but since this is non-profit project it will be done (or not) when Kovid or somebody else decides to work on that.
What you can do in this particular case is following:
1. Calibre has a recipe for instapaper.com which is a great tool for scraping web pages.
2. Go to instapaper.com and open an account, make sure to set password (it is required by calibre)
2a. Make sure to uncheck "Automatically move articles to the Archive when I read them" on instapaper.com
3. Once logged in your instapaper.com account look at the "read later" button on the frontpage. Drag that button to the favorites in your browser.
4. Open now in the same browser your weather forecast and click on the read later link in your favorites.
5. You just added the weather forecast page to your instapaper feed.
6. Now open calibre and locate the instapaper.com recipe and enter your credentials
7. Get the news and you will have as a result your weather forecast page in calibre.
With this approach you can download with calibre any static page without any coding.