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Originally Posted by kiklop74
You are able to do that. In fact all recipes do exactly that. The difference is the source of the links. It is either RSS feed (which is just an xml), or common html page.
In case of RSS feeds everything is more or less automated, custom programming is required for extracting links from common web page.
For an example of this just take a look at this page:
http://calibre-ebook.com/user_manual/news.html |
Thanks. I've looked the link you provided above over (had seen it before actually and that's where I got the idea of being able to get feeds from links embedded on a common page instead of just having to specify the links in the rss <item> tags of an rss.xml file). However, i get a bit lost in all of the stuff that is being done and discussed in the help link you referenced. I assume, for example, that it's the new york times recipe example that you are referring to and I see it uses soup. But I'm not sure exactly how to translate this example to mine--for example when it uses a for each statement I think i need to do something similar but not sure exactly what. I am a programmer (.net vb and c#) but have never worked with python. I've looked through several parts of the manual on custom recipes and learning python, etc. I get some of it and have been able to do my own custom recipes for some basic rss feeds. But could you just get me started here on how I would get the feeds from the specific web page I referenced in my original post on this thread? Thanks!