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[TonytheBookworm]

Alright I put in what you said but I still don't appear to be getting the print version. I'm testing it using
ebook-convert myrecipe.recipe output_dir --test -vv

I still see the weather tags and search and so on so that is definately not the print version...

here is what I have so far....

Spoiler:

class AdvancedUserRecipe1282101454(BasicNewsRecipe):
title = u'AJC'
oldest_article = 1
max_articles_per_feed = 100
no_stylesheets = True
extra_css = '.headline {font-size: x-large;} \n .fact { padding-top: 10pt }'



feeds = [(u'Breaking News', u'http://www.ajc.com/genericList-rss.do?source=61499')
]


def print_version(self, url):
return url.partition('?')[0] +'?printArticle=y'

[cisaak]

Originally Posted by Starson17

The CODE tag is the hash mark/pound symbol on the toolbar when you're replying. The SPOILER tag is the eye with an X in it on the same bar. Just paste your code, highlight it, then hit the code button, followed by the spoiler button. The code tag preserves essential formatting. The spoiler tag compresses it so others don't have to see it all, even if it's long.

Only problem remaining is repeating article title. Here is my recipe.

[bhandarisaurabh]

Originally Posted by kiklop74

I will not enter into discussion with ungrateful people. This is all the work I'm willing to do for this site for free. That is my final word.

sorry if I am asking for the print edition it doesn't mean I am ungrateful I am just asking for some changes in the recipe It's your wish to take as much time as you wish too

[TonytheBookworm]

What would prevent get_printversion from finding a url in a rss feed and simply modifying it? I thought maybe def get_obfuscated_article(self, url): might be what I need to use. Cause when I look at the rss the links to the printversion simply need ?printArticle=y appended I just can't figure out for the life of me how to get this thing to feed in the links on the rss and simply modify it....
When i try this:

Spoiler:

def print_version(self, url):
return url.partition('?')[0] +'?printArticle=y'

I still get the non-print version as if the dang thing isn't modifying the link(s).

So I tried this,

Spoiler:

class AdvancedUserRecipe1282101454(BasicNewsRecipe):
title = u'AJC'
oldest_article = 1
max_articles_per_feed = 100
no_stylesheets = True
extra_css = ' body{font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif } '
feeds = [(u'Breaking News', u'http://www.ajc.com/genericList-rss.do?source=61499')
]

def get_article_url(self, article):
link = article.get('link')
if not link:
links = article.get('links')
if links:
link = links[0]['href']

return link

def print_version(link):
return url.partition('?')[0] +'?printArticle=y'

What i was hoping the above would do is sparse the rss feed for links. and sort them in a variable called link and then pass it into the print_version function using the parameter of link.

I'm probably way off but I'm trying to figure it out just need a little boost if someone minds helping a newbie.

[elkosmas]

Hello guys... you are doing a great work with calibre
I inteded to post something on my website for calibre but I would like to post a recipe for my website (http://elkosmas.gr). I have made a simple recipe for me using the GUI but I think that's not really good enough.

My major concern is that althought I don't mind seeing Feedflares or other stuff on my feed... seeing it in a ebook is a major turnoff.
My other concern is that sometimes i tend to include embedded videos on my posts... when I do so i prefer to use a <More> tag in my RSS feed just before the video so people with low bandwidth connections can read the feed with ease.

The way i see it i prefer to provide just content (and some metadata to users) I also started translating some stuff to Greek thanks in advance.

[rogeliodh]

Hi, I've created a recipe for "La Jornada", a Mexican newspaper. I'm still working on it to fix some details, but it is usable right now.

[JaneD]

I used to have Dr Housing Bubble blog on a custom feed in calibre, but since I had to reload calibre onto my iMac, it doesn't work anymore. Now all I get are the headlines, no article follows. I've spent some time poring over the Users Manual but haven't been able to crack it. Any help is appreciated.

The feed is here: feed://feeds.feedburner.com/DrHousingBubble-HowILearnedToLoveSocal

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by TonytheBookworm

Alright I put in what you said but I still don't appear to be getting the print version. I'm testing it using
ebook-convert myrecipe.recipe output_dir --test -vv

You may want to test this way:

ebook-convert myrecipe.recipe output_dir --test -vv > myrecipe.txt

That will let you see any errors by looking at the text file..

here is what I have so far....
[deleted recipe]
I still see the weather tags and search and so on so that is definately not the print version...

I tested your recipe and it's working correctly, after I added the required indents. If you read a few of the posts in this thread, you will see that it is essential to post using the code tags, which preserves indents. When you omit code tags, indents are removed from your post.

Here is what I tested - it's the same as your recipe, but with indents. Perhaps you really don't have any indents in your recipe? It's not possible to tell, which is why it's so important to post recipes in code tags.

Spoiler:

class AdvancedUserRecipe1282101454(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title = u'AJC'
    oldest_article = 1
    max_articles_per_feed = 100
    no_stylesheets = True
    extra_css = '.headline {font-size: x-large;} \n .fact { padding-top: 10pt }'
    
    feeds = [(u'Breaking News', u'http://www.ajc.com/genericList-rss.do?source=61499')
    ]
    
    def print_version(self, url):
        return url.partition('?')[0] +'?printArticle=y'

(Sorry for the delay in reply - I've been unable to post or test anything for the last couple days - a medical issue).

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by cisaak

Only problem remaining is repeating article title. Here is my recipe.

You seem to have YOUTUBE tags on that recipe, but I was able to extract the code from the code tags. One of your H1 tags is inside an <a> tag so, assuming you don't need links try changing the remove_tags to this:

remove_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'id':'blox-logo'}),dict(name='a')]

You have a lot of overlapping remove and keep tags. You may want to use FireFox and FireBug to clean it up a bit, but it works as is.

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by TonytheBookworm

What would prevent get_printversion from finding a url in a rss feed and simply modifying it? I thought maybe def get_obfuscated_article(self, url): might be what I need to use. Cause when I look at the rss the links to the printversion simply need ?printArticle=y appended I just can't figure out for the life of me how to get this thing to feed in the links on the rss and simply modify it...

What I gave you works - I told you I tested it.

When i try this:

Spoiler:

def print_version(self, url):
return url.partition('?')[0] +'?printArticle=y'

I still get the non-print version as if the dang thing isn't modifying the link(s).

Do you notice that what I gave you has an indent, and what you've posted does not? I assumed that's because you didn't use the CODE tags, but if you really didn't use indents, that's your problem. It does work - I've tested it twice. If you want to see it for yourself, add a print statement before the return as in:

def print_version(self, url):
    print_url = url.partition('?')[0] +'?printArticle=y'
    print 'print_url is: ', print_url
    return print_url

[TonytheBookworm]

Originally Posted by Starson17

What I gave you works - I told you I tested it.

Do you notice that what I gave you has an indent, and what you've posted does not? I assumed that's because you didn't use the CODE tags, but if you really didn't use indents, that's your problem. It does work - I've tested it twice. If you want to see it for yourself, add a print statement before the return as in:

def print_version(self, url):
    print_url = url.partition('?')[0] +'?printArticle=y'
    print 'print_url is: ', print_url
    return print_url

yes the indent had to have been the issue cause as you stated which i didn't doubt but didn't understand why. It is working perfectly for me. Once again thank you so much for putting up with in this learning stage


I understood you said it worked. I wasn't doubting that at all. I just couldn't understand why it wasn't working on my end. I thank you very much for helping me out on this by the way. Sorry for any confusion or misunderstanding. And also, I hope your doing better as you mentioned you had a medical issue. Thanks again for your time and effort in this..

[jordanmills]

Continuation of my texasmonthly saga:

I used examples and stuff to get articles out of the texasmonthly rss feed (ps, thanks starson17, your way is definitely better). I'm having trouble with authentication though. It looks like it's just not saving login info when it goes to the child pages.

This recipe pretty much does what I want for the non-subscription-only articles. If you remove the keep_only_tags and remove_tags, it will show the full web page and text indicating that the user is not logged in.

It might be because the RSS link is to a different domain... but it's more likely that I just didn't do something right. Could anyone assist? Thanks,

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by TonytheBookworm

I understood you said it worked. I wasn't doubting that at all. I just couldn't understand why it wasn't working on my end.

Indents can be very frustrating. Notice how I send the errors to a text file - then I can see if it's reporting an indent problem.

I thank you very much for helping me out on this by the way. Sorry for any confusion or misunderstanding.

You're welcome - I always love to see someone new attempting a recipe. When you get it finished, post it here.
Even though you are pulling the print_version, it still has some junk in it that you may want to remove.

And also, I hope your doing better as you mentioned you had a medical issue.

Yes, I'm on the mend (again). The medical issue is why I started using Calibre - 1) I wanted something to read, but couldn't find it in my mess of disorganized files, and 2) it gave me time while immobile to read the code and play with Calibre.

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by jordanmills

I'm having trouble with authentication though. It looks like it's just not saving login info when it goes to the child pages.

This recipe pretty much does what I want for the non-subscription-only articles. If you remove the keep_only_tags and remove_tags, it will show the full web page and text indicating that the user is not logged in.

It might be because the RSS link is to a different domain... but it's more likely that I just didn't do something right. Could anyone assist? Thanks,

Look at the last few posts by and to TonyTheBookworm, particularly about using ebook-convert. Get that set up with the recommended text file for errors, then post your recipe and the error file. Authentication is one of the trickier parts of recipe writing. The second trickiest part is probably multipage sites. You've picked a hard one to start on, but if you will put in the time, I'll work with you to get it done. Don't expect it to be quick

You may need to eventually disclose your user/pass to me by PM if we run into something that's really hard to solve - but let's try to avoid that.

[jordanmills]

Originally Posted by Starson17

Look at the last few posts by and to TonyTheBookwork, particularly about using ebook-convert. Get that set up with the recommended text file for errors, then post your recipe and the error file. Authentication is one of the trickier parts of recipe writing. The second trickiest part is probably multipage sites. You've picked a hard one to start on, but if you will put in the time, I'll work with you to get it done. Don't expect it to be quick

You may need to eventually disclose your user/pass to me by PM if we run into something that's really hard to solve - but let's try to avoid that.

Hehe... actually I just found out yesterday that some of the articles are multipage... but only some. I know how to pick them!

I'll read up on that stuff by TonyTheBookwork and try a few other things before I try to get you to spend your time reinventing the wheel for me. I'll post back in a bit. Thanks!