Custom recipes (archive, read-only)

[jimmypatrick]

cypher, you can use the recipe. You don't put the recipe on your kindle, you use it in calibre as a custom news source. I'll take a look at PS3center and see if I can make a recipe for that.

[Briand]

kiklop74

I just got my first ereader and so I am new to Calibre and this forum...but I just want to say how amazing it is to see all the recipes you have created for folks and to say thanks.
I posted a request for a couple of recipes and one of these days I would like to learn how to make my own.

Thanks again
Brian

[espariz]

Many thanks for all recipes, I am new in kindle 2 and this forum and this is incredible... If you have time, please tell me a recipe for:

http://rss.elmundo.es/rss/

Thanks!! Have a nice end of year!

[cypherslock]

Originally Posted by jimmypatrick

cypher, you can use the recipe. You don't put the recipe on your kindle, you use it in calibre as a custom news source. I'll take a look at PS3center and see if I can make a recipe for that.

Thanks a lot my friend. If/when you do also if you could show me how you did it it would be most educational.

[jimmypatrick]

I don't see any RSS feeds on your PS3 site. Was there an RSS feed you were looking at?

[mtutalo]

I am trying to get the Providence Journal at www.projo.com but am not getting any articles. If I add the following:
"def print_version(self, url):
return url.replace('http://', 'http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/')
"
I get web pages with adds and a lot of extra stuff.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Here is my Recipe:

import re
from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe


class ProvidenceJournal(BasicNewsRecipe):

title = 'Providence Journal'
description = 'RI news'
__author__ = 'Kovid Goyal and Sujata Raman'
use_embedded_content = False
max_articles_per_feed = 20
language = 'en'


remove_javascript = True
no_stylesheets = True

extra_css = '''
#articleCopyright { font-family:Arial,helvetica,sans-serif ; font-weight:bold ; font-size:x-small ;}
p { font-family:"Times New Roman",times,serif ; font-weight:normal ; font-size:small ;}
body{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif}
'''

feeds = [ ('Today\'s Highlights', 'http://www.projo.com/newskiosk/rss/projolocalnews.xml'),
('Politics', 'http://politicsblog.projo.com/index.xml'),
('7 to 7: Rhode Island\'s breaking news blog', 'http://newsblog.projo.com/index.xml'),
('Music', 'http://www.projo.com/newskiosk/rss/projomusic.xml')

]




remove_tags = [{'id':['pfmnav', 'ArticleCommentsWrapper']}]


def get_article_url(self, article):
return article.get('guid', article.get('link', None))

def print_version(self, url):
return url.rpartition('.')[0] + '_pf.html'

def postprocess_html(self, soup, first):
for div in soup.findAll(name='div', style=re.compile('margin')):
div['style'] = ''
return soup

[cypherslock]

Originally Posted by jimmypatrick

I don't see any RSS feeds on your PS3 site. Was there an RSS feed you were looking at?

http://www.ps3center.net/rss.xml

It IS out of the way. I've mentioned to the owner about it before....guess I'll have to remind him to get it more prominent. LOL

[evanmaastrigt]

Originally Posted by mtutalo

I am trying to get the Providence Journal

You can not expect the recipe for The Washington Post to work on this website (or any other website for that matter). You have to examine the HTML and adjust accordingly.

For a start: remove the extra_css and remove_tags properties. Then remove the get_article_url(), print_version() and postprocess_html() methods. Then add the following line

keep_only_tags = [dict(name = 'div', attrs = {'id': 'storycontentleft'})]

Refine by removing unwanted tags and adding css to your liking.

[evanmaastrigt]

Here is a new recipe for the Journal of Accountancy:

journalofaccountancy.zip

[evanmaastrigt]

Originally Posted by Argueros

Can I get a recipe for the print edition of El Universal? Url: http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/edicion_impresa.html

The recipe included with Calibre only fetch the RSS and the information greatly varies. Thanks!

Here we are:
eluniversalimpresa.zip

[pking36330]

Hate to ask a question that is probably posted somewhere I should have already seen, but after you create these custom recipes, are they automatically included in the next update to Calibre?

[evanmaastrigt]

Originally Posted by Conexion

I've been trying to add the feed - http://feeds.feedburner.com/BigGovernment
<snip/>
Anyways, would anybody be able to convert that to a recipe for me in the mean time? Thanks!

Sure, here is a nice package: in it are recipes for Big Government and Pro Publica:

politalpackage-2.zip

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by pking36330

Hate to ask a question that is probably posted somewhere I should have already seen, but after you create these custom recipes, are they automatically included in the next update to Calibre?

For the most part.

[cypherslock]

I would love to see a recipe for Psychology Today, or Scientific American Mind.

[mtutalo]

Originally Posted by evanmaastrigt

You can not expect the recipe for The Washington Post to work on this website (or any other website for that matter). You have to examine the HTML and adjust accordingly.

For a start: remove the extra_css and remove_tags properties. Then remove the get_article_url(), print_version() and postprocess_html() methods. Then add the following line

keep_only_tags = [dict(name = 'div', attrs = {'id': 'storycontentleft'})]

Refine by removing unwanted tags and adding css to your liking.

Thanks for the quick advice! I will try that and see what I get.