Calibre news downloads, How to send them to kobo?

[Lavender]

I'm looking for a way to automatically sync the news epub files that I download with calibre to my kobo clara bw. I have a couple of news sources scheduled for download in calibre, and for the files to be deleted after 30 days. I'd like to duplicate this behaviour on the kobo somehow, and for the files to be hopefully sorted into the "News" collection on my kobo.

Thanks in advance for anyone who has ideas for me to try out. Hopefully this sort of thing has been thought of before.

[salamanderjuice]

I think you could potentially do this using Calibre-Web and some scripts. I have not personally tried this (although I do use Calibre-Web), it's just an idea I think could work although it may be kind of convoluted. Calibre-Web is a web service that runs on top of a Calibre database. One of the things it can do is sync with a Kobo eReader.

You would set that up, set up a script for automatically adding books from a given folder (https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-...w-books-(Linux)), update the shelve of the news books to be news so they end up in the news collection (https://github.com/supfors/c2cw_shelf_sync).

I am not sure there is any way to auto delete books from the Kobo however...

[Lavender]

Originally Posted by salamanderjuice

I think you could potentially do this using Calibre-Web and some scripts. I have not personally tried this (although I do use Calibre-Web), it's just an idea I think could work although it may be kind of convoluted. Calibre-Web is a web service that runs on top of a Calibre database. One of the things it can do is sync with a Kobo eReader.

You would set that up, set up a script for automatically adding books from a given folder (https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-...w-books-(Linux)), update the shelve of the news books to be news so they end up in the news collection (https://github.com/supfors/c2cw_shelf_sync).

I am not sure there is any way to auto delete books from the Kobo however...

I actually have calibre-web installed. I was testing it out back when I thought I was going to use my iPad as an ereader. I'll look into this. Thank you for the suggestion.

I hope someone has made some way to run scripts locally on the kobo. That seems like it would open the door for deleting old news files. If it could be run on a schedule, even better.

I also saw that there's some way to use SSH with a kobo running NickelMenu? Maybe that could be used to scp news epubs onto the kobo.