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[kovidgoyal]

Thanks

[megacoupe]

Hey, thanks for taking the time to respond.

And huge Mazel Tov to you and your bride to be!

[kovidgoyal]

My pleasure

[StDo]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Unfortunately, I am travelling for three weeks (getting married) ...

The Fortune may be with you - and your wife.

Congratulations!

[Bubble]

Originally Posted by Rick C

I was wondering if you might be interested in doing a script for a Canadian publication? I have tried to modify existing scripts to fit but so far no good.

Even if you had a look and gave me some guidance, I'd appreciate it.

Macleans weekly Canadian newsmagazine.
http://www.macleans.ca/rss/

Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/frontpage/

Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/generic/article/111417

Thanks

Did you ever managed to get a working profile for any of these feeds Rick C?

So far this is what I have as the profile for the Toronto Star

class TheStar(BasicNewsRecipe):
	
	title 		= 'TheStar'
	timefmt 		= ' [%a, %d %b, %Y]'
	html_description 	= True
	oldest_article       	= 7
	no_stylesheets 	= True	

	feeds		= [
				('Top News Stories', 'http://www.thestar.com/rss/000-082-672?searchMode=Lineup'),
				('Toronto & GTA', 'http://www.thestar.com/rss/97427?searchMode=Lineup'),
				('Ontario', 'http://www.thestar.com/rss/0?searchMode=Query&categories=311'),
				('Canada', 'http://www.thestar.com/rss/000-097-467?searchMode=Lineup'),
				('World', 'http://www.thestar.com/rss/000-098-744?searchMode=Lineup'),
				('Top Business Stories', 'http://www.thestar.com/rss/000-082-796?searchMode=Lineup'),
				('Top Entertain. Stories', 'http://www.thestar.com/rss/117741?searchMode=Lineup'),
				('Top Living Stories', 'http://www.thestar.com/rss/000-082-839?searchMode=Lineup'),
				('Health', 'http://www.thestar.com/rss/000-082-844?searchMode=LineupAndQuery&categories=299'),
				('Top Sci-Tech Stories', 'http://www.thestar.com/rss/82848?searchMode=Query&categories=300'),
				('Ideas', 'http://www.thestar.com/rss/93199?searchMode=Lineup'),
			]

	def print_version(self, url):
		return url.replace('http://www.thestar.com/article/', 'http://www.thestar.com/printArticle/')

I figured out how to add the profile through here

So far, it work! Need to figure out how to edit it so the font is smaller though... And maybe removing the banner...

[Bubble]

Can someone help us Canadians out by looking at the RSS feed of Maclean's which is here and suggest where to start making a profile for it?

The Print option is a javascript that call up a custom print.css. So should we start by removing all the classes? Or try to force that print.css stylesheet as the default?

I might not be making much sense here..

PS: I'm not sure if Macleans can be done... I found out that even their RSS feed contain faulty links.

[Rick C]

Hey Bubble-nice work,looks like you have a winner here with the Star.
I've been too busy to look at libprs for a couple of weeks,and have not even looked at the new user manual you linked to.Actually I am really glad to see your post this morning and will have a closer look at how you made it work later on.I have tested what you did and it looks to work great.

I was really disappointed that the Google reader recipe from Davec seems to be effectively useless, because the concept was such a good one.If this program could be made to fetch from one of the RSS aggregators that is available on the net,it might make it a lot easier to use for those of us who don't have time or inclination to learn python programming.

[Bubble]

Hmm...

Well...

I looked at the Globe and Mail and the same problem appear with Macleans. They don't have a HTML-link Print output, but rather, just popup the Print menu of Windows.

If anyone want to give us a clue on how to integrate these type of sites for libprs500, please reply.

[Rick C]

Deputy Dawg had a quick look at these a while back and said as much;that Macleans and the Globe would not be very conducive to our purposes.
So we 've got the Star(you might want to post it to Kovid's site-he might include it in an iteration of libprs500 for future Canuck users),what other distinctly Canadian feeds can you try,Bubble?

[Bubble]

I can't think of any at the moment Rick. Those 3 are basically the foundation when it comes to Canadian news.

PS - T'is pRogz ROX TkissHX kovidgoyal! Grtz on WEDING!

[kovidgoyal]

Doesn't the globe and mail have a print edition at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/frontpage/

[Bubble]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Doesn't the globe and mail have a print edition at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/frontpage/

I'm assuming you meant Print Edition as in online format that is downloadable? As far as I know, no.

[kovidgoyal]

I meant an online edition that is typically an index that links to simplified HTML pages that are suitable for printing and therefore suitale for conversion to an ebook.

[Ben_B]

Here is the profile I use for the Globe and Mail. It worked splendidly until version 0.4.49. I tried to revert back to version 0.4.42, but am having problems with a 'unicode' object has no attribute 'needs_subscription' traceback error.

P.S.-- looks like this was a known bug in 0.4.42. Does anyone know where I can find a pre 0.4.49 (windows) version of libprs500?

[kovidgoyal]

Migrating a profile to work with 49 should be simple, see http://libprs500.kovidgoyal.net/user...es-to-recipese

If you cant do it, I'll take a look.