Custom recipes (archive, read-only)

[Conexion]

Originally Posted by cypherslock

Hey all! I've been using Calibre with my new Kindle and loving it. As I'm ambitious I thought I'd try to add a feed. I write for a PS3 News and article site called PS3center.net (www.ps3center.net). My thinking was that if I could grab the RSS feed and throw it into Calibre, we might be able to increase our readership.

But when download it I just get the "PS3 RSS Feed" header and nothing else. Like I said, I'm ambitious but I could use a bit of help if possible.

I have the same problem with the site I'm trying to view @_@

[elmoglick]

Originally Posted by Conexion

I have the same problem with the site I'm trying to view @_@

Are you using 0.6.30? This was a known bug that should be fixed in the new 0.6.31 version.

[evanmaastrigt]

Here are new recipes for The News, Dawn (Pakistan) and Chowk (South Asia)
thenews.zip
dawn.zip
chowk.zip

[cypherslock]

I was but have upgraded to .31. Is there anything special I need to do? I just added the rss feed.

[jayman]

Sorry for the noob question. It seems all the table of contents for the newspaper recipes that come with calibre are not clickable. For instance, you click on the title of the article and instead of sending you to the article itself it just sends you to the top of the table of contents again. I'm using an iphone and stanza with epub format.

[kovidgoyal]

the table of contents are definitely clickable. what recipe are you using?

[evanmaastrigt]

Here's a new recipe for Tech Crunch
techcrunch.zip

[jayman]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

the table of contents are definitely clickable. what recipe are you using?

I'm using the recipe for the new york times, newsweek, the new yorker. They're all the same. You click on the article heading (in blue on my stanza/iphone) and it just directs you to the features page or table of contents.

[kovidgoyal]

And if you open the epub files using the calibre viewer are the links clickable?

[jayman]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

And if you open the epub files using the calibre viewer are the links clickable?

Yes. If I view it on calibre and I click on one of the titles in say table of contacts it appropriately sends me to the article. Is it a bug with stanza? I know they recently had an update. By the way, I love the program. It's the future.

[kovidgoyal]

Sounds like a bug in stanza. I know the links in newsweek at least work in both calibre and adobe digital editions as I read it myself. Can someone else who uses stanza comment, please.

[Briand]

Hi

Just got a Sony 300 and I really love Calibre. I would like to request to recipes

1) Mother Jones Magazine www.motherjones.com

2) Popular Photography www.popphoto.com

Thanks
Brian

[jimmypatrick]

I didn't see a recipe for the Independent. (My first recipe, so if any recipe hackers want to take a look and let me know if I've made any blunders.)

It looks good on my new Kindle, but let me know if it doesn't work on your device.

class AdvancedUserRecipe1262062929(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title          = u'The Independent'
    oldest_article = 1
    max_articles_per_feed = 100

    feeds          = [(u'UK', u'http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/rss'), 
                      (u'World', u'http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/rss'), 
                      (u'Sport', u'http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/rss'),
                      (u'Arts & Entertainment', u'http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/rss'),
                      (u'Life & Style',u'http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/news/rss'),
                      (u'Business',u'http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/rss'),
                      (u'Science',u'http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/rss'),
                      (u'Media',u'http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/rss')
                      ]

    keep_only_tags = [dict(id=['article'])]
    remove_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'share-links'}),
                   dict(name='ul', attrs={'class':'article-tools'}),
                   dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'related-articles'})
                  ]
    
    extra_css = "body{color:black;}"

I also don't know how to grab the attributes out of the "basic recipe" panel to fill up objects like "oldest article" and "max_articles_per_feed".

I've grabbed most of the feeds here, but you can cut them out if you just want "UK" or "Business"

--

Jimmy

[BrianG]

Hello.

Here is my first attempt at a recipe addition. Seems to be passable with only a few intermittent flaws that a perfectionist might not like (e.g. there's one type of article that I can't extract a title from).

There are three files in the attached zip file:

People Magazine headlines
US Magazine headlines
People/US headline "mashup" that combines both into a single output file.

The mashup is merely a combination of the two feeds for convenience reasons.

I'm not savvy enough to create icons...



BrianG

[cypherslock]

Hey Jimmy, mind if I use that as a template for PS3center.net? Also, how do you get the recipe from there to your Kindle?