Question from a Newbie

[Ptephic]

Hi All,

Does anyone already have a good recipe for the Isle of man news

http://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/isle-of-man-news

As a newbie I really don't understand what I am doing when I try to create a custom recipe, I really don't have any coding knowledge at all (if it is even classified as coding.)

If anyone already has a good recipe then I would be for ever grateful.

If not then i guess i have a few long nights trying to figure it all out.

Thank you very much

Jay.

[scissors]

HI

I knocked this up for you. It has the first 2 feeds so you can see how to get them.

It does a little tidying (still plenty to do) but it should give you the idea.

I'm only a basic coder so that's about all i can help...

from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
import re
class AdvancedUserRecipe1306061239(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title          = u'Isle of Mann News'
    #description = 'News as provide by The Daily Mirror -UK'

    __author__ = 'Dave Asbury'
    language = 'en_GB'

    #cover_url = 'http://yookeo.com/screens/m/i/mirror.co.uk.jpg'

    masthead_url = 'http://www.iomtoday.co.im/webimage/wwio_publication_logo_7_3824!image/3834190894.png_gen/derivatives/default/3834190894.png'


    oldest_article = 28
    max_articles_per_feed = 30
    remove_empty_feeds = True
    remove_javascript     = True
    no_stylesheets = True
    #use_embedded_content = True
    keep_only_tags = [
                              dict(name='h1'),
	          dict(attrs={'class':['article-attr','image-caption','editorialSectionLeft']})
		]    
    remove_tags = [
                           dict(name='div',attrs={'id' : 'localDirSearch'}),
                           dict(name='h2'),dict(attrs={'class' : ['sponsorPanel','localDirSearch','socialBookmarkPanel','addthis_button']})]

    preprocess_regexps = [
    (re.compile(r'h1><a href.*?/a></h1>', re.IGNORECASE | re.DOTALL), lambda match: '')]
    


    feeds          = [

        (u'News', u'http://www.iomtoday.co.im/cmlink/1.1643894'),
        (u'District News', u'http://www.iomtoday.co.im/cmlink/1.3096975')

 ]

Originally Posted by Ptephic

Hi All,

Does anyone already have a good recipe for the Isle of man news

http://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/isle-of-man-news

As a newbie I really don't understand what I am doing when I try to create a custom recipe, I really don't have any coding knowledge at all (if it is even classified as coding.)

If anyone already has a good recipe then I would be for ever grateful.

If not then i guess i have a few long nights trying to figure it all out.

Thank you very much

Jay.

[Ptephic]

Cheers Scissors,

It's a good start.

I try it out and see what I get and then see how i can try to expand on it.

Thank you very much.

Reading through the forums is for sure helping but I'm not really tecchie so it is slow going.