any idea why Anandtech feed causing crashes?

[stewacide]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+...7?comments=all

It crashes my Kobo Touch but it seems I'm not alone and this isn't limited to the Kobo. It's a shame because Anand's often extremely long articles can be a bother to read on screen.

I've never had anything else lock up my reader, but this feed does it reliably and instantly upon opening it.

[Divingduck]

it is not only that your Kobo don't like it. Sony PRS-650, Sony's Software and ADE as well don' like it and hang-up. It seams something in the Epub is wrong. Looking into Sigil shows a lot of problems. At the end it seems there is a need to rework the recipe.

[Divingduck]

May be this will work for you:

Spoiler:

class anan(BasicNewsRecipe):

    title = 'Anandtech'
    description = 'comprehensive Hardware Tests'
    __author__ = 'Oliver Niesner' # 2012-09-20 AGE: update
    use_embedded_content   = False
    language = 'en'
    timefmt = ' [%d %b %Y]'
    max_articles_per_feed = 40
    no_stylesheets = True
    remove_javascript = True
    encoding = 'utf-8'
# 2012-09-20 AGE: remove this section
#    remove_tags=[
#        dict(name='a', attrs={'style':'width:110px; margin-top:0px;text-align:center;'}),
#        dict(name='a', attrs={'style':'width:110px; margin-top:0px; margin-right:20px;text-align:center;'}),
#        {'attrs':{'class':['article_links', 'header', 'body_right']}},
#        {'id':['crumbs']},
#        ]

    keep_only_tags = [{'class':'subbox'}] # 2012-09-20 AGe add
     
    feeds =  [ ('Anandtech', 'http://www.anandtech.com/rss/')]

    def print_version(self,url):
        return url.replace('/show/', '/print/')

Let me know.

[Divingduck]

I made a final version of this recipe. It includes now all pages of an article. In addition the recipe have a cover.

Spoiler:

__license__   = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = '2008, Kovid Goyal <kovid at kovidgoyal.net>'

'''
Fetch Anandtech.
'''

from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe


class anan(BasicNewsRecipe):

    title = 'Anandtech'
    description = 'comprehensive Hardware Tests'
    __author__ = 'Oliver Niesner' # 2012-09-20 AGE: update
    use_embedded_content   = False
    language = 'en'
    timefmt = ' [%d %b %Y]'
    oldest_article        = 7 # 2012-09-20 AGE: update
    max_articles_per_feed = 40
    no_stylesheets = True
    remove_javascript = True
    encoding = 'utf-8'

    cover_url = 'http://www.anandtech.com/content/images/globals/header_logo.png' # 2012-09-20 AGE: new
    masthead_url = 'http://www.anandtech.com/content/images/globals/printheader.png' # 2012-09-20 AGE: update


    remove_tags=[
                  dict(name='a', attrs={'class': 'bluebutton noprint'}),
                  dict(name='img', attrs={'alt': 'header'}),
                 ] # 2012-09-20 AGE: update
  
    feeds =  [ ('Anandtech', 'http://www.anandtech.com/rss/')]

    def print_version(self,url):
        return url.replace('0Cshow0C', '0Cprint0C') # 2012-09-20 AGE: update

Hope, you like it.
DivingDuck

[stewacide]

Thanks! Works great - much better than instapaper which was my fallback.

[Divingduck]

A new update for this recipe.

Spoiler:

__license__   = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = '2008, Kovid Goyal <kovid at kovidgoyal.net>'

'''
Fetch Anandtech.
'''

from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe


class anan(BasicNewsRecipe):

    title = 'Anandtech'
    description = 'comprehensive Hardware Tests'
    __author__ = 'Oliver Niesner, Armin Geller' # 2013-09-07 AGE: update
    use_embedded_content   = False
    language = 'en'
    timefmt = ' [%d %b %Y]'
    oldest_article        = 7
    max_articles_per_feed = 40
    no_stylesheets = True
    remove_javascript = True
    encoding = 'utf-8'

    cover_url = 'http://www.anandtech.com/content/images/globals/header_logo.png'
    masthead_url = 'http://www.anandtech.com/content/images/globals/printheader.png'

    keep_only_tags = [
                       dict(name='section', attrs={'class':['main_cont']}),
                     ]
    remove_tags=[                                            # 2013-09-07 AGE: update
                  dict(name='div', attrs={'class':['print', # logo
                                                    'breadcrumb_area noprint',
                                                    'fl-rt noprint',
                                                    'blog_top_right',]})
                 ]
  
    feeds =  [ ('Anandtech', 'http://www.anandtech.com/rss/')]

    def print_version(self,url):
        return url.replace("0Cshow0C", "0Cprint0C") # 2013-09-07 AGE: update

[Divingduck]

A new update for this recipe.

Spoiler:

__license__   = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = '2008, Kovid Goyal <kovid at kovidgoyal.net>'

'''
Fetch Anandtech.
'''

from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe


class anan(BasicNewsRecipe):

    title = 'Anandtech'
    description = 'comprehensive Hardware Tests'
    __author__ = 'Oliver Niesner, Armin Geller' # 2014-02-27 AGE: update
    use_embedded_content   = False
    language = 'en'
    timefmt = ' [%d %b %Y]'
    oldest_article        = 7
    max_articles_per_feed = 40
    no_stylesheets = True
    remove_javascript = True
    encoding = 'utf-8'

    cover_url = 'http://www.anandtech.com/content/images/globals/header_logo.png'
    masthead_url = 'http://www.anandtech.com/content/images/globals/printheader.png'

    keep_only_tags = [
                       dict(name='section', attrs={'class':['main_cont']}),
                     ]
    remove_tags=[
                  dict(name='div', attrs={'class':['print',
                                                    'breadcrumb_area noprint',
                                                    'fl-rt noprint',
                                                    'blog_top_right',]})
                 ]
  
    feeds =  [ ('Anandtech', 'http://www.anandtech.com/rss/')]

    def print_version(self,url):
        #return url.replace("0Cshow0C", "0Cprint0C") # 2013-09-07 AGE: update
        return url.replace("/show/", "/print/") # 2014-02-27 AGE: update