Custom recipes (archive, read-only) - Page 49

jeremynpross · 09-11-2009, 02:50 PM

Dear Recipe Creators,
I am working with the publisher of "The Kingdom Experiment" to convert it from PDF to Kindle and other eBook formats.

Here's the book:
http://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Experi...693916&sr=1-1#

The book is highly designed, with supergraphics type text, lots of white space, and a few images. We want to preserve the look of each page.

You can see the page layout via Amazon's "look Inside" here:

http://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Experi...&sr=1-1#reader

I've tried Calibre conversion from the PDF and from a zip archive of 300 dpi JPG exports renamed as CBZ. I tried output as ePub and as Mobi.

None work perfectly to preserve page layout, stretching and misplacing text. Using the free mobi tool to convert preserves the look but makes the text way too blurry.

Do you have any suggestions as to how I can do this conversion via the GUI in Calibre?

Forgive my ignorance, but I don't know the first thing about using a command line, right down to where the commands are entered, what syntax to use and where there are spaces.

I'm on deadline to get this figured out and will appreciate any help you can give me.

Thanks,
Jeremy Ross
jeremyr@earthlink.net

radikaldissent · 09-12-2009, 01:04 PM

I've read through this thread and I've heard someone request a philly.com recipe. I'm not sure if someone got around to it but I created a recipe for the Philadelphia Inquirer (http://www.philly.com/inquirer/). It seems to work okay and I've attached it to this post. I'm always open to suggestions or advice to improve it.

radikaldissent · 09-12-2009, 01:30 PM

I've been working on a recipe for mother jones, it's not totally functional though. I've got it to point to the print url but on some articles the content is cut off. If you run it, the first article works but the second one titled "The Melting Climate Change Deadline" at http://www.motherjones.com/print/27210 is cut off. Only the first paragraph is displayed. This problem also shows up for other articles in the feed. I'd appreciate any help to fix this.

cix3 · 09-12-2009, 10:48 PM

Salon, the award-winning online news and entertainment Web site, combines original investigative stories, breaking news, provocative personal essays and highly respected criticism along with popular staff-written blogs about politics, technology and culture.

http://www.salon.com

Code:

class Salon_com(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title = 'Salon.com'
    __author__ = 'cix3'
    description = 'Salon.com - Breaking news, opinion, politics, entertainment, sports and culture.'
    timefmt = ' [%b %d, %Y]'

    oldest_article = 7
    max_articles_per_feed = 100

    remove_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'class':['ad_content', 'clearfix']}), dict(name='hr'), dict(name='img')]

    remove_tags_before = dict(name='h2')

    feeds = [
        ('All News & Politics', 'http://feeds.salon.com/salon/news'),
        ('War Room', 'http://feeds.salon.com/salon/war_room'),
        ('All Arts & Entertainment', 'http://feeds.salon.com/salon/ent'),
        ('I Like to Watch', 'http://feeds.salon.com/salon/iltw'),
        ('Book Reviews', 'http://feeds.salon.com/salon/books'),
        ('All Life stories', 'http://feeds.salon.com/salon/mwt'),
        ('Broadsheet', 'http://feeds.salon.com/salon/broadsheet'),
        ('All Opinion', 'http://feeds.salon.com/salon/opinion'),
        ('All Sports', 'http://feeds.salon.com/salon/sports'),
        ('All Tech & Business', 'http://feeds.salon.com/salon/tech'),
        ('Ask the Pilot', 'http://feeds.salon.com/salon/ask_the_pilot'),
        ('How the World Works', 'http://feeds.salon.com/salon/htww')
            ]

    def print_version(self, url):
        return url.replace('/index.html', '/print.html')

Enjoy!

olaf · 09-14-2009, 12:40 AM

I am a total newbie to this and can't figure out my local newspaper RSS feeds. I tried some others, like BBC and they worked ok, but the feeds listed on this page don't come up with any results. Do I have to write special code to access these particular feeds?

http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dl...egory=rss_main

danielc · 09-14-2009, 05:20 AM

Hi , i wanna to a help too ...
i go Jamie website and i wanna to make the RSS for the daily recipe of J.Oliver... can give me a help ? the picture cant showing out .. it will be great and i can bring it and make different dishes everyday by him .. ha ha THanks

http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/32402/f/467087/index.rss

GRiker · 09-14-2009, 12:06 PM

olaf - I followed the instructions and was able to download a readable paper. Did you copy the links to the individual feeds, as opposed to using the main page? Here's the recipe I ended up with for 3 sections, 5 articles per section:

Code:

class AdvancedUserRecipe1252944207(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title          = u'Telegram - Worcester MA'
    oldest_article = 7
    max_articles_per_feed = 5

    feeds          = [(u'Front Page News', u'http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=RSS03&MIME=xml'), (u'Local News', u'http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=rss01&MIME=xml&profile=1101'), (u'Business', u'http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=rss01&MIME=xml&profile=1002')]

GRiker · 09-14-2009, 12:15 PM

danielc:

The problem is that calibre doesn't recognize 'feed://' as a valid url source. I replaced it with 'http://' and the recipe correctly downloads content from the site.

Code:

class AdvancedUserRecipe1252944534(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title          = u"Jamie's Recipes"
    oldest_article = 7
    max_articles_per_feed = 5

    feeds          = [(u"Jamie's Daily Recipe", u'http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/32402/f/467087/index.rss')]

Kovid, is it possible to recognize 'feed://' as a valid url prefix?

G

kovidgoyal · 09-14-2009, 03:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GRiker

Kovid, is it possible to recognize 'feed://' as a valid url prefix?

G

I can basically have it replace, feed:// with http://

ccowie · 09-14-2009, 05:35 PM

Is it possible to get a recipe for the Globe and Mail?

kovidgoyal · 09-14-2009, 06:23 PM

There already is one

olaf · 09-14-2009, 08:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GRiker

olaf - I followed the instructions and was able to download a readable paper. Did you copy the links to the individual feeds, as opposed to using the main page? Here's the recipe I ended up with for 3 sections, 5 articles per section:

Code:

class AdvancedUserRecipe1252944207(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title          = u'Telegram - Worcester MA'
    oldest_article = 7
    max_articles_per_feed = 5

    feeds          = [(u'Front Page News', u'http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=RSS03&MIME=xml'), (u'Local News', u'http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=rss01&MIME=xml&profile=1101'), (u'Business', u'http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=rss01&MIME=xml&profile=1002')]

GRiker - thanks for the help. Something must be off with my program configuration - I had essentially the same recipe and was getting address failures. Copied your recipe and the same thing. I will re-install things to see if that makes a difference. Thanks again for looking at that for me.

Re-installed and used your recipe, but get an error on each of the three feeds - (11001, 'getaddrinfo failed'). Not sure what the difference is and why it works for you and not me.

danielc · 09-15-2009, 01:51 AM

THanks GRiker,

THe problems is now it just show the content and after click into the pages, it cant show the picture and only get the words out.

Can give me a lesson on it too ? so thanks ...

Daniel

Quote:

Originally Posted by GRiker

danielc:

The problem is that calibre doesn't recognize 'feed://' as a valid url source. I replaced it with 'http://' and the recipe correctly downloads content from the site.

Code:

class AdvancedUserRecipe1252944534(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title          = u"Jamie's Recipes"
    oldest_article = 7
    max_articles_per_feed = 5

    feeds          = [(u"Jamie's Daily Recipe", u'http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/32402/f/467087/index.rss')]

Kovid, is it possible to recognize 'feed://' as a valid url prefix?

G

ccowie · 09-15-2009, 02:07 PM

I'm not sure if this is possible, but the more I read on these forums the more it seems everything is possible.
I've purchased a few issues of Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show electronic magazine. Is there any way to get a recipe that can deliver the issues I've purchased?

Andreiko · 09-15-2009, 04:19 PM

Firts of all thank you guys for great job you have been doing for those dumbs like me who cannot create a normal and functional RSS recipe.

I was checking and trying to create my own, advanced one, with downloadable articles (printed versions) so i can deploy it on my Kindle DX, but... its above my knowlege. Actualy i was trying to create the ricipe from the examples, but couldnt manage

I realy kindly ask you guys, plz, create one from http://www.inosmi.ru
with full articles, from this rss:http://www.inosmi.ru/misc/export/xml...ranslation.xml

Its a russian news site, which actually provides translated (to russian) articles from all over the world. It would be really col to have this one. Also, i found that we dont have any pre-installed russian-language (and ukrainian) RSS feeds in calibre. I think i shall ask you also guys to make some 10-15 RSS feeds there. But firts i have to made up my mind about what are those realy reliable and major news and media sites.

But again, thank you guy for great job.

09-11-2009, 02:50 PM	#721
jeremynpross Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: none	Request for Visual Book recipe Dear Recipe Creators, I am working with the publisher of "The Kingdom Experiment" to convert it from PDF to Kindle and other eBook formats. Here's the book: http://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Experi...693916&sr=1-1# The book is highly designed, with supergraphics type text, lots of white space, and a few images. We want to preserve the look of each page. You can see the page layout via Amazon's "look Inside" here: http://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Experi...&sr=1-1#reader I've tried Calibre conversion from the PDF and from a zip archive of 300 dpi JPG exports renamed as CBZ. I tried output as ePub and as Mobi. None work perfectly to preserve page layout, stretching and misplacing text. Using the free mobi tool to convert preserves the look but makes the text way too blurry. Do you have any suggestions as to how I can do this conversion via the GUI in Calibre? Forgive my ignorance, but I don't know the first thing about using a command line, right down to where the commands are entered, what syntax to use and where there are spaces. I'm on deadline to get this figured out and will appreciate any help you can give me. Thanks, Jeremy Ross jeremyr@earthlink.net

09-14-2009, 12:15 PM	#728
GRiker Comparer of the Ephemeris Posts: 1,496 Karma: 424697 Join Date: Mar 2009 Device: iPad	danielc: The problem is that calibre doesn't recognize 'feed://' as a valid url source. I replaced it with 'http://' and the recipe correctly downloads content from the site. Code: class AdvancedUserRecipe1252944534(BasicNewsRecipe): title = u"Jamie's Recipes" oldest_article = 7 max_articles_per_feed = 5 feeds = [(u"Jamie's Daily Recipe", u'http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/32402/f/467087/index.rss')] Kovid, is it possible to recognize 'feed://' as a valid url prefix? G

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09-14-2009, 12:40 AM	#725
olaf Enthusiast Posts: 43 Karma: 50 Join Date: May 2009 Device: Kindle3	I am a total newbie to this and can't figure out my local newspaper RSS feeds. I tried some others, like BBC and they worked ok, but the feeds listed on this page don't come up with any results. Do I have to write special code to access these particular feeds? http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dl...egory=rss_main

09-14-2009, 05:20 AM	#726
danielc Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: none	Hi , i wanna to a help too ... i go Jamie website and i wanna to make the RSS for the daily recipe of J.Oliver... can give me a help ? the picture cant showing out .. it will be great and i can bring it and make different dishes everyday by him .. ha ha THanks http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/32402/f/467087/index.rss

09-14-2009, 05:35 PM	#730
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09-14-2009, 06:23 PM	#731
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,399 Karma: 27756918 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	There already is one

09-15-2009, 02:07 PM	#734
ccowie Hiding with an ereader Posts: 391 Karma: 3987376 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Kitchener Ontario Device: Kindle Paperwhite, Sony PRS 950, Ipad 2, PRS 350	I'm not sure if this is possible, but the more I read on these forums the more it seems everything is possible. I've purchased a few issues of Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show electronic magazine. Is there any way to get a recipe that can deliver the issues I've purchased?

09-15-2009, 04:19 PM	#735
Andreiko Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: Kindle DX, Sony-505	Firts of all thank you guys for great job you have been doing for those dumbs like me who cannot create a normal and functional RSS recipe. I was checking and trying to create my own, advanced one, with downloadable articles (printed versions) so i can deploy it on my Kindle DX, but... its above my knowlege. Actualy i was trying to create the ricipe from the examples, but couldnt manage I realy kindly ask you guys, plz, create one from http://www.inosmi.ru with full articles, from this rss:http://www.inosmi.ru/misc/export/xml...ranslation.xml Its a russian news site, which actually provides translated (to russian) articles from all over the world. It would be really col to have this one. Also, i found that we dont have any pre-installed russian-language (and ukrainian) RSS feeds in calibre. I think i shall ask you also guys to make some 10-15 RSS feeds there. But firts i have to made up my mind about what are those realy reliable and major news and media sites. But again, thank you guy for great job.