News Fetch naming

McStubb · 12-29-2025, 01:01 PM

I decided to give the news downloading feature of Calibre a fresh look after failing to find it useful a couple of years ago. (Not Calibre's fault)

When using a couple of the standard sources the ebook metadata/naming is pretty poor. Example for Engadget:
Title: 4dkogpaq_recipe_out
Author: calibre
Tags: News, Engadget
Date: 29 Dec 2025

Ideally the Title should either be the date of download, or a combination of date of download and source. The Author should also be set to the source, not calibre.

Is this possible or am I going to have to deal with random filenames?

kovidgoyal · 12-29-2025, 01:13 PM

Does not reproduce for me. Sounds almost like you have disabled reading metadata from filenames. The title is always set to the source name. And the author is always set to calibre, that's not going to change.

toadclones · Yesterday, 04:58 PM

I can reproduce this issue if I set my preferred output format to KFX. I haven't looked into the KFX plugin but I'm guessing that's the problem.

kovidgoyal · Yesterday, 10:48 PM

That should take care of it: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...e94386ddd3e3ce

12-29-2025, 01:01 PM	#1
McStubb Connoisseur Posts: 53 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2014 Device: None	News Fetch naming I decided to give the news downloading feature of Calibre a fresh look after failing to find it useful a couple of years ago. (Not Calibre's fault) When using a couple of the standard sources the ebook metadata/naming is pretty poor. Example for Engadget: Title: 4dkogpaq_recipe_out Author: calibre Tags: News, Engadget Date: 29 Dec 2025 Ideally the Title should either be the date of download, or a combination of date of download and source. The Author should also be set to the source, not calibre. Is this possible or am I going to have to deal with random filenames?

12-29-2025, 01:13 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 46,067 Karma: 29579912 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Does not reproduce for me. Sounds almost like you have disabled reading metadata from filenames. The title is always set to the source name. And the author is always set to calibre, that's not going to change. Attached Thumbnails

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Yesterday, 04:58 PM	#3
toadclones Member Posts: 10 Karma: 42 Join Date: Dec 2023 Device: Kindle(11th gen)	I can reproduce this issue if I set my preferred output format to KFX. I haven't looked into the KFX plugin but I'm guessing that's the problem.

Yesterday, 10:48 PM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 46,067 Karma: 29579912 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	That should take care of it: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...e94386ddd3e3ce