So confused

[darkheritage]

I am completely new to this and completely lost. The local Nashville news paper the Tennessean provides a daily download already in mobi format. They read just fine on the Kindle.

http://nashvilletennessean.tn.newsme...&device=kindle

I can't however for the life of me figure out how to use calibre to automate the process instead of manually going to the papers site and downloading it daily.

I tried creating a recipe but that failed horribly.

Any suggestions?

[scissors]

As far as i know Calibre can'y go to a site and fetch a mobi file.
what it does is take (scrape) websites and throw out everything except the article.

if you go to http://www.tennessean.com/section/digital

the list of RSS feeds are at the bottom of the page
these URLs are what you add to the basic news recipe

example

Spoiler:

class AdvancedUserRecipe1387642952(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title          = u'test'
    oldest_article = 7
    max_articles_per_feed = 100
    auto_cleanup = True

    feeds          = [(u'top news', u'http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?prof=2275&Category=profilerss&mime=xml&nocache=1&rsstitle=TOP%20NEWS')]

Hope that helps, sorry that's all i can offer.

I recommend you read,

http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/news...asicNewsRecipe

[aerodynamik]

There is/was a few recipes downloading ePubs and using those. This should also work for mobi. There is sample code snippet here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...1&postcount=16

I think the German Zeit recipe used to do this.

I would offer to briefly look into this, but the link above requires a subscription. @darkheritage: let me know if you still need this, PM me your logon details and I can take a look what the best way should be

[mijairaf]

Hi

I am also having a tough time trying to use a Calibre recipe to download an epub from newsmemory.com. In my case the publication is the Fall River Herald News but I suspect the logic would be similar. I am able to download the epub file using a quick and dirty linux script that basically has 2 wget commands, the first wget does a post of the username and password, the second wget download the epub file.

I'm not a python developer so I really having a hard time implementing this as a recipe. I have read the tutorials and the posting about epub downloading from Starson17 and achims. But I'm not getting too far. Having cleared up initial indentation issues my recipe completes without errors but the epub is not downloaded.

I suspect my code is not even being invoked as I am unable to see the output of my print statements. Can anyone please get me repointed in the right direction ?

Here is the code I am using with the command:
ebook-convert frhn.recipe frhn -vvv --username myusername --password mypassword

class AdvancedUserRecipe1415485404(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title          = u'FallRiverHeraldNews'
    oldest_article = 7
    max_articles_per_feed = 100
    auto_cleanup = True
    needs_subscription = True

    feeds          = [(u'Fall River Herald News', u'http://fallriverheraldnews.ma.newsmemory.com/ebook.php?page=downloadEbooks&device=android')]

def get_browser(self):
   br = BasicNewsRecipe.get_browser()
   print 'You have entered get_browser '
   if self.username is not None and self.password is not None:
     br.open('http://fallriverheraldnews.ma.newsmemory.com/ebook.php?page=downloadEbooks&device=android')
     br.select_form(name='Log in')
     br['USERID']   = self.username
     br['PASSWORD'] = self.password
     br.submit()
   return br

def build_index(self):
        print 'You have entered build_index '
	epub_url = "http://fallriverheraldnews.ma.newsmemory.com/ebook.php?page=downloadEbooks&device=android&date=20141109&token="
	url =  epub_url
	f = urllib2.urlopen(url)
	tmp = PersistentTemporaryFile(suffix='.epub')
	self.report_progress(0,_('downloading epub'))
	tmp.write(f.read())
	tmp.close()
	zfile = zipfile.ZipFile(tmp.name, 'r')
	self.report_progress(0,_('extracting epub'))
	zfile.extractall(self.output_dir)
	tmp.close()
	index = os.path.join(self.output_dir, 'content.opf')
	self.report_progress(1,_('epub downloaded and extracted'))
        print 'You have leaving build_index '
	return index

[kovidgoyal]

Your indentation is wrong. The methods of the class have to be indented so that they line up with the class attributes.

[mijairaf]

Thanks for that! I'm now making a bit of progress.