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jbone1313 · 04-06-2010, 10:51 AM

Interesting. I created a custom recipe which just pulls the RSS feed for The New Yorker and nothing else. What is it specifically about the built-in feed? Is there some Javascript going on in there? I.e., is there something I could remove if this happens to other feeds? My big worry would be for The Economist (which works fine now), because it seems like that one may have taken a while to setup, and it wouldn't be so easy for me to recreate it.

A side question: I noticed the Economist provides a RSS feed for their full print edition, but they only provide snippets of the text. I think Calibre is using that feed. How is it that Calibre can go get all of the text and pictures? Is there some crazy programing behind the scenes which clicks all the links and grabs the text? Is there a different feed Calibre uses which contains everything? Just curious.

The Week has a similar setup for their full edition, and I may setup a similar feed if I get some time.

Thanks much.

04-06-2010, 10:51 AM	#7
jbone1313 Member Posts: 20 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2009 Device: PRS600	Interesting. I created a custom recipe which just pulls the RSS feed for The New Yorker and nothing else. What is it specifically about the built-in feed? Is there some Javascript going on in there? I.e., is there something I could remove if this happens to other feeds? My big worry would be for The Economist (which works fine now), because it seems like that one may have taken a while to setup, and it wouldn't be so easy for me to recreate it. A side question: I noticed the Economist provides a RSS feed for their full print edition, but they only provide snippets of the text. I think Calibre is using that feed. How is it that Calibre can go get all of the text and pictures? Is there some crazy programing behind the scenes which clicks all the links and grabs the text? Is there a different feed Calibre uses which contains everything? Just curious. The Week has a similar setup for their full edition, and I may setup a similar feed if I get some time. Thanks much.