Series Tag

[us06154]

Is there a way to incorporate the "series" tag, into a basic recipe?

i.e.:

class dailymirror(BasicNewsRecipe):
cover_url = 'http://www.johnsilva.ca/covers/dmirrorcov.jpg'
title = u'Daily Mirror'
author = 'News Articles'
description = u"News Articles from Daily Mirror website"
-> series = 'News Articles'
oldest_article = 7
max_articles_per_feed = 100
auto_cleanup = True

feeds = [(u'Breaking News', u'http://www.dailymirror.lk/index.php?option=com_ninjarsssyndicator&feed_id=16 &format=raw'), (u'Technology', u'http://www.dailymirror.lk/index.php?option=com_ninjarsssyndicator&feed_id=15 &format=raw'), (u'World News', u'http://dmadmin.dailymirror.lk/index.php?option=com_ninjarsssyndicator&feed_id=12 &format=raw')]

[kovidgoyal]

conversion_options = {'series':'xxx', series_index: 2}

[us06154]

Thanks Kovid,

I tried inserting the code, but when saving the recipe, it bails out with an error: (BTW, timefmt works,, thanks for the tip.)

class sundayLeader(BasicNewsRecipe):
cover_url = 'http://www.johnsilva.ca/covers/sleadercov.jpg'
title = u'Sunday Leader'
timefmt = ' [%Y, %m %d, %a]'
publisher = 'Sunday Leader'
conversion_options = {'series':'News Articles', series_index: 2}
description = u"News Articles from Sunday Leader Website"
oldest_article = 7
max_articles_per_feed = 100
auto_cleanup = True

feeds = [(u'News', u'http://www.thesundayleader.lk/feed/')]

=== Error ======
calibre, version 0.8.58
ERROR: Invalid input: <p>Could not create recipe. Error:<br>name 'series_index' is not defined

[kovidgoyal]

You need quotes around series_index

[us06154]

Thanks Kovid,

It works now. I reran the job, and it produced the desired result (it had the correct series, but there was the number `2`beside it. ), was it because I had already run the job once before? and the DB was keeping track of the version?

If I may ask, What does the 2 in ( 'series_index': 2 ) for?

Thanks again for your kind assistance.

[kovidgoyal]

The number of the book in the series.

[us06154]

Not sure if this is exactly what I was expecting.. I placed quotes around the tag:

class dailymirror(BasicNewsRecipe):
    cover_url             = 'http://www.johnsilva.ca/covers/dmirrorcov.jpg'
    title          = u'Daily Mirror'
    timefmt = ' [%Y, %m %d, %a]'
    publisher = 'News Articles'
    conversion_options = {'series':'News Articles', 'series_index': 2}
    description		        = u"News Articles from Daily Mirror website"
    language = 'en'
    encoding              = 'utf-8'
    oldest_article = 7
    max_articles_per_feed = 100
    auto_cleanup = True

    feeds          = [(u'Breaking News', u'http://www.dailymirror.lk/index.php?option=com_ninjarsssyndicator&feed_id=16&format=raw'), (u'Technology', u'http://www.dailymirror.lk/index.php?option=com_ninjarsssyndicator&feed_id=15&format=raw'), (u'World News', u'http://dmadmin.dailymirror.lk/index.php?option=com_ninjarsssyndicator&feed_id=12&format=raw')]

And I get the following output:


Should the items under "series"[2] increment? or what exactly is the [2]?