CustomIndexRecipe

[EnergyLens]

Are there any examples using the CustomIndexRecipe class?

I have heaps of web content that I've downloaded using the Firefox Scrapbook plug-in and I want to use Calibre's ebook-convert command line tool to mass-edit them but can't quite figure out how to use CustomIndexRecipe.custom_index()

There don't seem to be any examples of this anywhere?

Thanks

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by EnergyLens

Are there any examples using the CustomIndexRecipe class?

I have heaps of web content that I've downloaded using the Firefox Scrapbook plug-in and I want to use Calibre's ebook-convert command line tool to mass-edit them but can't quite figure out how to use CustomIndexRecipe.custom_index()

There don't seem to be any examples of this anywhere?

Thanks

I assume you've read this:

CustomIndexRecipe¶
class calibre.web.feeds.news.CustomIndexRecipe¶
This class is useful for getting content from websites that don’t follow the “multiple articles in several feeds” content model.

CustomIndexRecipe.custom_index()¶
Return the filesystem path to a custom HTML document that will serve as the index for this recipe. The index document will typically contain many <a href=”...”> tags that point to resources on the internet that should be downloaded.

I've also noticed the dearth of examples. No built-in recipes use it. What have you tried? It looks fairly straight forward. Just guessing, but I'd try using the CustomIndexRecipe in your class and then:

def custom_index(self):
    filepath = path_to_custom_index.html
    return filepath

I have my doubts that this is going to be very successful, but I suppose it depends on what's in your index. Maybe Kovid will comment. Let us know what you find out.

[kovidgoyal]

You dont really need customindex for this. Just use basicnewsrecipe and override parse_index, return file:// URLs and you should be fine, though the backwards OS might give you a bit of trouble with filepath URLs

[EnergyLens]

You were right about filepath URLs being tricky. I'm not a python programmer, so I just hack around from examples until I can make them work.

I found it was easier to just access the file system by using the web server locally on my Mac.

[silly questions deleted ... answered!]

Muchas Gracias!