web2lrf

[moneytoo]

Yes, I'm using Windows XP Professional SP2 (Czech language). Same experience on several machines.

[kovidgoyal]

Ah ok i'll add some possible fixes in 0.4.65

[moneytoo]

Thanks, kovidgoyal. Web2lrf now works with the sample site. Great.

Fetching news using calibre GUI, I still get few errors (but most of the sites work now).

Washington Post, Reuters...:

'NoneType' object is unsubscriptable
Detailed traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "main.py", line 716, in news_fetched
  File "main.py", line 442, in _add_books
  File "calibre\ebooks\metadata\meta.pyo", line 81, in get_metadata
  File "calibre\ebooks\metadata\__init__.pyo", line 96, in smart_update
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is unsubscriptable

[kovidgoyal]

0.4.66 should have a fix that fixes that error

[moneytoo]

It works. Now's time for me to create my user profiles.

I was following this example: http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/wiki/UserProfiles but I've spent some time before I realized I have to use
"from calibre.ebooks.lrf.web.profiles import DefaultProfile" instead of "from libprs500.ebooks.lrf.web.profiles import DefaultProfile".

[kovidgoyal]

Use this http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/user_manual/news.html

to learn how to create recipes for feeds

[jotheman]

Kovid,

is it possible to use calibre / web2lrf for converting single webistes? I mean just websites, not newsfeeds. When I save a website to disk the pictures won't be saved. Calibre does a great job at fetching RSS feeds, so just fetching one website should be easy right? How could I do this?

Thanks,


jo.

[kovidgoyal]

search for the bookit firefox extension

[jotheman]

Thanks for your always quick and helpful answers, Kovid.

I already installed the BookIt extension. I like the idea of being able to just "browse & click" for new stuff that I then can comfortably read on an eReader.

I even started considering a Sony Reader, mostly because of your work on calibre and the broad support for this device that seems to be out there - but one big disadvantage held me back: support for Chinese fonts. It is possible, but very cumbersome.

So I will stick to my decision to buy a Hanlin for once. Still, it seems like I need to figure out how to work with LRF files, because that seems to be the most available format, at least Mac-software-wise. I think BookIt has an "add to calibre" feature so that I could work from there. Calibre would have to be the pivotal point for conversion.

Hoping for the best,

Cheers


jo.

[MiketheMan]

Hi, Kovid! Many thanks for your work!
Can you kindly help me with an issue with web2rlf?

When I run

web2lrf.exe default --url="http://spinet.ru/conference/printview.php?t=2154&start=0" -o 1.lrf --match-regexp kafadzy.com

program types : "could not fetch link http://kafadzy.com/...", although I can open this link in a browser.

Thanks in advance,
Mikhail

[kovidgoyal]

Add the --verbose option and run it

[MiketheMan]

Can't make it output to a file with --verbose option; it prints something like that:

[DEBUG] __init__.pyo:489: fetching http://kafadzy.com/spine/images/skrew_wrong.jpg
[warning] __init__.pyo:489: could not fetch link http://kafadzy.com/spine/images/skrew_wrong.jpg
[DEBUG] __init__.pyo:489:error: decode() argument 1 must be string, not None
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "...simple.py", line 335, in process_link
File "..__init__.pyo", line 62, in xml_to_unicode
Typeerror:decode() argument 1 must be string, not None

Hope it'll help

Mikhail

[kovidgoyal]

Will be fixed in the next release.

[tovbrog]

Kovidgoyal,

I want to add my thanks to all the other Sony users for your wonderfule work.

Calibre has been a real godsend and I hardly use the Sony SW at all.

Keep up the great work.

[capture]

I still have the UnicodeDecodeError problem, I use windows xp pro(chinese version) sp2, and just updated my calibre to v0.4.79.

....
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 151, in <module>
File "main.py", line 146, in main
File "main.py", line 134, in run_recipe
File "calibre\web\feeds\news.pyo", line 473, in download
File "calibre\web\feeds\news.pyo", line 646, in build_index
File "calibre\web\feeds\news.pyo", line 538, in feed2index
File "calibre\utils\genshi\core.pyo", line 179, in render
File "calibre\utils\genshi\output.pyo", line 60, in encode
File "calibre\utils\genshi\output.pyo", line 210, in __call__
File "calibre\utils\genshi\output.pyo", line 753, in __call__
File "calibre\utils\genshi\output.pyo", line 592, in __call__
File "calibre\utils\genshi\output.pyo", line 710, in __call__
File "calibre\utils\genshi\core.pyo", line 494, in escape
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 2: ordinal
not in range(128)