Escape Pod

Hampshire Nanny · 12-03-2014, 06:26 PM

Hello you clever people who write news recipes. I would like to be able to turn the "articles" at Escape Pod into an eBook for offline reading.

I created a custom recipe supplying only the RSS URL and it sort of worked -- in that it appeared to have retrieved the post from the "front page" of the blog, rather than from the actual article. I looked at the raw RSS/XML and the link in the RSS goes to the actual full-length article. But the ePub that was created looks like the front page of the blog where the blog entry/article has only a portion of the article and a "More ..." link at the bottom.

While I'm comfortable looking at RSS and ATOM feeds, I know nothing about how they are used by a recipe to create an eBook from a site.

So, if someone is willing to help ...

RSS feed is at http://feeds.escapeartists.net/EscapePod
... which takes you to http://escapepod.org/feed/

Main page of Escape Pod can be found at http://escapepod.org/

Thanks in advance!

Update: I should point out that I'm only interested in retrieving the text, not the audio/media.

kovidgoyal · 12-03-2014, 09:57 PM

Add

use_embedded_content = False

to your recipe

Hampshire Nanny · 12-03-2014, 11:07 PM

Kovid -- thank you very much. Not only did it grab the entire article, but it picked up the formatting from the web pages. Super!

12-03-2014, 06:26 PM	#1
Hampshire Nanny Guru Posts: 615 Karma: 8064562 Join Date: Aug 2009 Device: Sony PRS-505, Kindle 3 KB, iPad2	Escape Pod Hello you clever people who write news recipes. I would like to be able to turn the "articles" at Escape Pod into an eBook for offline reading. I created a custom recipe supplying only the RSS URL and it sort of worked -- in that it appeared to have retrieved the post from the "front page" of the blog, rather than from the actual article. I looked at the raw RSS/XML and the link in the RSS goes to the actual full-length article. But the ePub that was created looks like the front page of the blog where the blog entry/article has only a portion of the article and a "More ..." link at the bottom. While I'm comfortable looking at RSS and ATOM feeds, I know nothing about how they are used by a recipe to create an eBook from a site. So, if someone is willing to help ... RSS feed is at http://feeds.escapeartists.net/EscapePod ... which takes you to http://escapepod.org/feed/ Main page of Escape Pod can be found at http://escapepod.org/ Thanks in advance! Update: I should point out that I'm only interested in retrieving the text, not the audio/media.

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12-03-2014, 09:57 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,344 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Add use_embedded_content = False to your recipe

12-03-2014, 11:07 PM	#3
Hampshire Nanny Guru Posts: 615 Karma: 8064562 Join Date: Aug 2009 Device: Sony PRS-505, Kindle 3 KB, iPad2	Kovid -- thank you very much. Not only did it grab the entire article, but it picked up the formatting from the web pages. Super!

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