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andersent · 01-23-2010, 09:48 PM

Hi All,

Shouldn't I be able to go to a website that has a table of contents of web links for an online book and essentially populate the feeds [] = section of a recipe by looping through the html links on the TOC page? This way, if you find a site that has a book or a bunch of links to content that you would like on your eReader, you don't have to point to every link by name on a page if there are a good deal of links. Below is a concrete example that will help clarify what I am looking to do:

I could create my own feed.xml file and put it on a webpage somewhere and point calibre at this feed. The feed would simply specify the following link (which has a table of contents with links on the same site to the book): http://www.newmanreader.org/works/idea/index.html

Now, if I point calibre to just this page, it will just see all the links but to my knowledge (unless I'm missing something) it can't follow every link on this page. So, rather than specifying each link that is on this page in the feeds.xml file, can't I just have calibre read the html, look for ahref= tags on this page, and then dynamically build a list of feeds[] = based on the ahref tags? It seems like some of the newspaper recipes essentially do this but I can't always follow the logic of what is happening in the pre built recipes. I think this would make custom recipes and calibre very powerul, as you could go to a website that has a listing of a mess of links and have it go download all of the content and section it into "articles" on your eReader, but within one "book."

01-23-2010, 09:48 PM	#1253
andersent Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2009 Device: kindle	Recipe for creating an ebook out of online html books Hi All, Shouldn't I be able to go to a website that has a table of contents of web links for an online book and essentially populate the feeds [] = section of a recipe by looping through the html links on the TOC page? This way, if you find a site that has a book or a bunch of links to content that you would like on your eReader, you don't have to point to every link by name on a page if there are a good deal of links. Below is a concrete example that will help clarify what I am looking to do: I could create my own feed.xml file and put it on a webpage somewhere and point calibre at this feed. The feed would simply specify the following link (which has a table of contents with links on the same site to the book): http://www.newmanreader.org/works/idea/index.html Now, if I point calibre to just this page, it will just see all the links but to my knowledge (unless I'm missing something) it can't follow every link on this page. So, rather than specifying each link that is on this page in the feeds.xml file, can't I just have calibre read the html, look for ahref= tags on this page, and then dynamically build a list of feeds[] = based on the ahref tags? It seems like some of the newspaper recipes essentially do this but I can't always follow the logic of what is happening in the pre built recipes. I think this would make custom recipes and calibre very powerul, as you could go to a website that has a listing of a mess of links and have it go download all of the content and section it into "articles" on your eReader, but within one "book."