[Request] The Digital Antiquarian feed cleanup

ICDeadPpl · 07-30-2018, 02:48 AM

The Digital Antiquarian blog has an RSS feed which when converted has a navigation element that I'd like to get rid of.
The article I've tried with is this:
https://www.filfre.net/2018/07/doing...look-and-feel/
The resulting epub looks like this:

Also the "article_summary" would be nice to get rid of. Strangely also, the article summary has these Unicode character codes showing instead of the characters, while the main article has the exactly same lines showing the supposed characters properly.

I've never tried Calibre's "Fetch news" function before, so I don't know where to begin.
Can someone give me some help with this?

kovidgoyal · 07-30-2018, 03:13 AM

You'd need to modify the recipe, see https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/news.html

If you use an rss feed the navigation section gets auto generated from the feed data. If you want to customize it, you's need to override the parse_feeds() method in the recipe. Call the base class method which will give you the parsed entries, then you can make whatever changes you need to them and return the result.

07-30-2018, 02:48 AM	#1
ICDeadPpl Enthusiast Posts: 35 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Sweden Device: Kobo Libra 2	[Request] The Digital Antiquarian feed cleanup The Digital Antiquarian blog has an RSS feed which when converted has a navigation element that I'd like to get rid of. The article I've tried with is this: https://www.filfre.net/2018/07/doing...look-and-feel/ The resulting epub looks like this: Also the "article_summary" would be nice to get rid of. Strangely also, the article summary has these Unicode character codes showing instead of the characters, while the main article has the exactly same lines showing the supposed characters properly. I've never tried Calibre's "Fetch news" function before, so I don't know where to begin. Can someone give me some help with this?

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07-30-2018, 03:13 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,345 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	You'd need to modify the recipe, see https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/news.html If you use an rss feed the navigation section gets auto generated from the feed data. If you want to customize it, you's need to override the parse_feeds() method in the recipe. Call the base class method which will give you the parsed entries, then you can make whatever changes you need to them and return the result.

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