Is it possible to pull the print version

[mufc]

Is it possible to pull the print version from this. The code would be great but an explanation would be even greater. That way I might earn something.


http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories...harper-101201/


http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNew...hub=PrintStory


Much Thanks in advance

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[jangliss]

At least I think it should be... The manual has an example on how to do this for the BBC News website, and takes just a minor tweek to get working with this one.

class CTVNews(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title = u'CTV News Feed'
    oldest_article = 7
    max_articles_per_feed = 100

    feeds = [(http://www.ctv.ca/generic/generated/freeheadlines/rdf/allNewsRss.xml)]

    def print_version(self, url):
        return url.replace('http://www.ctv.ca/','http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/print/') + '?hub=TopStories&subhub=PrintStory'

I did notice that the URL had a date string before the print ?hub bit at the end, but on a random guess, I took it out, and it worked. I've not tested the above, and might be missing other critical parts (this is my first attempt), but give it a shot.

[mufc]

Getting this
GIS.Common.GIException: Trying to get HTMLTemplate filenames
at GIS.Servlets.HTMLTemplate.buildSubValues(HTMLTempl ate.java:422)
at GIS.Servlets.HTMLTemplate.doGet(HTMLTemplate.java: 131)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet .java:126)
at GIS.Common.Servlet.service(Servlet.java:122)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet .java:103)
at com.caucho.server.http.FilterChainServlet.doFilter (FilterChainServlet.java:95)
at com.caucho.server.http.Invocation.service(Invocati on.java:291)
at com.caucho.server.http.CacheInvocation.service(Cac heInvocation.java:132)
at com.caucho.server.http.RunnerRequest.handleRequest (RunnerRequest.java:341)
at com.caucho.server.http.RunnerRequest.handleConnect ion(RunnerRequest.java:271)
at com.caucho.server.TcpConnection.run(TcpConnection. java:136)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

[TonytheBookworm]

What I would do is strip the url and re-append it
The original article within say the Health feed is something like this
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Health/201...umbers-101209/

and the print version is something like this:
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNew...hub=PrintStory

so what you would wanna do is strip the url after the http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Health/ in the original url
that would leave you with two indexes.
1) http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Health/
2) /20101209/nurses-numbers-101209/

then simply re split the second index so you get
1) 20101209
2) nurses-numbers-101209

then simply piece it back together

Spoiler:

def print_version(self, url):
        split1 = url.split("/CTVNews/Health/")
        split2 = url.split1("/")
        
        print_url = http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/' + split1[1] + '/' + split2[0] + '/?hub=Health&subhub=PrintStory'
        
        return print_url

notice that this would only work for the health section. so you would have to take and use some for statements and if statements and a regexpression search to check and see if health is contained in the url. or whatever feeds you might have then break the url accordingly.

By the way the above code is not tested and will more than likely fail but you should get the general concept of how to go about it... Good luck.

[mufc]

Thanks for your time but I think it is much faster to strip the pages of divs etc that I do not need.

[sorcer]

Does anyone have any idea how to use print version in my case? If the original article is www.somesite.com/news/article, then in the print version one needs to add ?preview=print at the end of URL, so it becomes like www.somesite.com/news/article?preview=print. What code should I use in order to do that?

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by sorcer

Does anyone have any idea how to use print version in my case? If the original article is www.somesite.com/news/article, then in the print version one needs to add ?preview=print at the end of URL, so it becomes like www.somesite.com/news/article?preview=print. What code should I use in order to do that?

Use this:

    def print_version(self, url):
        return url + '?preview=print'