Ebook from pdf

sps · 11-22-2010, 03:45 PM

Hi
Is it possible to make an ebook of an online pdf magazine.
The complete magazine location:
http://emagazine.tehelka.com/tehelka...f/pagetemp.pdf

The entire magazine comes in the web-browser if I use this link.
However, when I use this as a feed on Calibre, it gives an error and cannot download anything.

I am not a Python user, so I do not know how to ask Calibre to convert the file format (from pdf to MOBI.)
(If this works) I would also like advice on how to automate the process. The part "http://emagazine.tehelka.com/tehelkaenglish/" remains the same. The next number is the issue "27112010" stands for 27Nov2010 and the end remains same.
I looked at bbc example and in that a prefix is added to each feed. If I use 'http://emagazine.tehelka.com/tehelkaenglish/' as feed, then it goes to the present issue. Is there a way to add 'pdf/pagetemp.pdf' at the end.

Thanks a lot.
Sumeet

Starson17 · 11-22-2010, 04:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sps

Hi
Is it possible to make an ebook of an online pdf magazine.

Yes, but not as a recipe that automatically downloads. Since you are in the recipe area, I assume that is what you want, and you can't do it (or at least not easily). If you just want the book, download it and add it to Calibre.

Starson17 · 11-22-2010, 04:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Starson17

Yes, but not as a recipe that automatically downloads.

You can write scripts that grab the pdf (using a 3d party program like wget), then converts the book (using Calibre's ebook-convert) then adds it to Calibre, but it's not treated as a news recipe is treated. You would run the script using a scheduler program for your OS. I can even think of ways to trick a recipe into thinking the downloaded converted pdf =>EPUB is the source for a recipe, (similar to the way that a recipe can grab an EPUB, even though it can't grab a PDF) but all of this would be a major hack.

sps · 11-26-2010, 01:02 AM

Thanks for the replies. I am downloading the pdf and having the program be my to-do list alerts

naravive · 01-10-2011, 01:15 PM

Sumeet, if I may, I think maybe you're asking the wrong question here-- to download as pdf then convert would be the long way around. What we need is a script that just goes to the tehelka main website -- http://www.tehelka.com/ scrapes the stories and compiles the ebook. As a non-python user, I tried to do it by going to the rss feed page: http://www.tehelka.com/feeds/tehfeed.xml and adding that to the Basic Recipe. But this has many problems -- the images are dropped for some reason, and the feeds come undistinguished by issue or without an index to tell you which section it comes from.

Now: the help we need from the wizards on this forum: we need a recipe that would pull section by section from the site (click section headers on main page) -- Current Affairs, Business, Culture and Society, etc --by clicking into each link on each section, then assemble the week's issue (this is a weekly) with a section based index.

Can anyone help us with writing this recipe, or point to a preloaded recipe for a site that's organised in the same way, that I could try to modify to fit Tehelka's? Tehelka, by the way, is one of the best Indian weeklies and with a major commitment to investigative journalism, so I think it's important that there's a recipe for it.

11-22-2010, 03:45 PM	#1
sps Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: Kindle	Ebook from pdf Hi Is it possible to make an ebook of an online pdf magazine. The complete magazine location: http://emagazine.tehelka.com/tehelka...f/pagetemp.pdf The entire magazine comes in the web-browser if I use this link. However, when I use this as a feed on Calibre, it gives an error and cannot download anything. I am not a Python user, so I do not know how to ask Calibre to convert the file format (from pdf to MOBI.) (If this works) I would also like advice on how to automate the process. The part "http://emagazine.tehelka.com/tehelkaenglish/" remains the same. The next number is the issue "27112010" stands for 27Nov2010 and the end remains same. I looked at bbc example and in that a prefix is added to each feed. If I use 'http://emagazine.tehelka.com/tehelkaenglish/' as feed, then it goes to the present issue. Is there a way to add 'pdf/pagetemp.pdf' at the end. Thanks a lot. Sumeet

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11-26-2010, 01:02 AM	#4
sps Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: Kindle	Thanks for the replies. I am downloading the pdf and having the program be my to-do list alerts

01-10-2011, 01:15 PM	#5
naravive Enthusiast Posts: 28 Karma: 6534 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: Kindle, Boox M92	Sumeet, if I may, I think maybe you're asking the wrong question here-- to download as pdf then convert would be the long way around. What we need is a script that just goes to the tehelka main website -- http://www.tehelka.com/ scrapes the stories and compiles the ebook. As a non-python user, I tried to do it by going to the rss feed page: http://www.tehelka.com/feeds/tehfeed.xml and adding that to the Basic Recipe. But this has many problems -- the images are dropped for some reason, and the feeds come undistinguished by issue or without an index to tell you which section it comes from. Now: the help we need from the wizards on this forum: we need a recipe that would pull section by section from the site (click section headers on main page) -- Current Affairs, Business, Culture and Society, etc --by clicking into each link on each section, then assemble the week's issue (this is a weekly) with a section based index. Can anyone help us with writing this recipe, or point to a preloaded recipe for a site that's organised in the same way, that I could try to modify to fit Tehelka's? Tehelka, by the way, is one of the best Indian weeklies and with a major commitment to investigative journalism, so I think it's important that there's a recipe for it.