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PostMedia Recipes
PostMedia is gradually phasing out its "Today's Paper" index pages (which corresponded to the paper edition of its newspapers). This invalidates the recipes I created for these papers, so here are updated recipes that visit the various website sections for the content for the major PostMedia newspapers.
Calgary Herald Edmonton Journal Montreal Gazette Ottawa Citizen Vancouver Province Vancouver Sun |
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It works now thanks so much for your time.
Is there a reason the file size jumped from 1mb to 12mb? |
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Nickredding:
I'm trying to use your Edmonton Journal recipe, but ebook-convert is giving me a "failed to compile" error. Any idea what the problem is? --Databoy2k |
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I just ran the Edmonton Journal recipe from the calibre UI and from ebook-convert with no problems. I suspect there is an issue with your recipe file. Try pulling it out of the calibre installation again.
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This might be of interest ... --> Postmedia Paywall: National Post, Ottawa Citizen, Vancouver Province, Vancouver Sun Enact ‘Metered' Pay System
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Not likely to have any impact on calibre downloads since I believe the paywall uses JavaScript and cookies
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I ended up having to install the updated calibre, but that fixed the problem. Thanks!
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I've noticed that Postmedia has not removed their 'today's paper' pages (or at least the Vancouver Sun has not). It would be nice if the original recipes could be restored to the default installation of Calibre - as they are much better.
Note: one thing that changed this past week was a minor change in the format of the news stories (again, at least for the Vancouver Sun) - 'storycontent' is now 'story_content' |
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Thank you for responding - I really appreciate that you created these recipes.
But 'the new recipes have all of that content plus much more' doesn't seem to be the case. This is what comes up for news stories (just news for the sake of discussion) with the new recipe: Coast Guard spending $50 million to remove oil from U.S. ship that sank in 1946 off B.C. Toronto city hall 'coup d'etat' chaos as Mayor Rob Ford stripped of many of his powers B.C. announces cuts to ferry routes, no more free rides for seniors New Surrey coal terminal passes environment test Trans-Canada remains closed after fatal Abbotsford ultralight plane crash Vaughn Palmer: Divisions still haunt B.C. NDP Gang cops lost accused killer Jamie Bacon's vehicle hours before Surrey Six murders BCTF says province tried to provoke strike during 2011 job action Justice elusive for those lacking English skills Pipeline proposal through grizzly sanctuary no longer on the table: BC Environment Minister Spanish court orders arrest of ex-Chinese president Jiang in probe of alleged Tibet genocide Vaughn Palmer: Ferry-riding seniors first in line for ‘tough decisions’ And this is what comes up using the old 'Today's Paper' recipe: New coal terminal passes environment test Coast Guard launches $50m clean-up operation Western forest products - 'Being more efficient important part of being globally competitive' Gambling seen as revenue source B.C. to cut free ferry rides Nursing staffwho stop feeding woman risk charges: lawyer Unlicensed dentist to be returned from Toronto to face charges in B.C Sentence more than doubled for lawyer who helped Greeks gang Who pays for climate change? Province tried to provoke strike during 2011 job action, B.C. Teachers' Federation says Suspect arrested after man shot The new tool in the fight against concussions: 3D games Pilot killed in ultralight crash Three ambushed, one stabbed 22nd homicide prompts study Police warn not to let in strangers Vancouver, take a lesson from New Orleans Four charged in death of Vanderhoof man This day in history: November 19, 1959 Animal cruelty another reason not to use farmland for a rodeo Ferry-riding seniors first in line for Stone's 'tough decisions' CANADA & WORLD Female serial killer Joanna Dennehy pleads guilty to murdering three men Canada is in the right place with typhoon disaster relief Authenticity of St. Peter's relics questioned NASA explorer lifts off to probe climate change - on Mars Investigators probe cause of plane crash U.S. will keep its missiles in Turkey Former chief rabbi faces fraud charges Removal of fuel rods from Fukushima plant begins New long-range drone unveiled State won't repeat public python hunt Potentially lethal bacteria on rise We are long past 'get help' Ford brothers lurch from low to low Aquino government vows to curb graft in typhoon aid As you can see, there's a lot more content using 'Today's Paper' (about 3x as much) |
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You have to look in all of the individual sections to see all of the articles. What you have compared here is only what was on the web front page.
The "today's paper" view includes all of the sections from today's paper on one web page, which was parsed by the old recipe into individual sections. So to compare "apples to apples" you need to compare the contents of ALL of the sections with what today's paper shows--and I think you will see there's a lot more in the current recipe. |
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No - I'm looking at the contents of the file generated by the recipe. The news stories I listed were the ones in the file - the recipe only seems to be returning content from the front web page. Perhaps something has changed in their website structure that breaks the new recipe.
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The section urls have changed. I'll check all the postmedia papers and post updated recipes later this week.
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