Custom recipes (archive, read-only)

[flightlead]

I would be willing to conspire with someone on a recipe for Investors Business Daily. I have the eIBD subscription. I'd love to be able to take by BBC News, Dilbert, and IBD to Starbucks with me in my Nook every morning.

[Briand]

Thanks for that....appreciate it
Brian

[bhandarisaurabh]

Originally Posted by evanmaastrigt

New recipe for Entrepeneur

Attachment 42329

can you make the recipe without using rss feeds .Use this link http://www.entrepreneur.com/magazine...eur/index.html

[mtutalo]

Originally Posted by mtutalo

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

I am not having any luck. I have tried many things and cannot get the html navigation out of the output. Any help would be greatly appreciated! My father is hoping to get the providence journal on his B&N Nook and I have not been able to figure this stuff out. Thanks in advance for anyone that can help get these feeds for me.

http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/newsblog/index.xml
http://www.projo.com/newskiosk/rss/projopolitical.xml
http://www.projo.com/newskiosk/rss/projolocalnews.xml

[Krittika Goyal]

Originally Posted by mtutalo

I am not having any luck. I have tried many things and cannot get the html navigation out of the output. Any help would be greatly appreciated! My father is hoping to get the providence journal on his B&N Nook and I have not been able to figure this stuff out. Thanks in advance for anyone that can help get these feeds for me.

http://news.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/newsblog/index.xml
http://www.projo.com/newskiosk/rss/projopolitical.xml
http://www.projo.com/newskiosk/rss/projolocalnews.xml

There is a recipe for providence journal included in the latest version of calibre. Is there a problem with that recipe?

[Krittika Goyal]

Originally Posted by flightlead

I would be willing to conspire with someone on a recipe for Investors Business Daily. I have the eIBD subscription. I'd love to be able to take by BBC News, Dilbert, and IBD to Starbucks with me in my Nook every morning.

If you pmme the account details I can try to have it done on the weekend.

[evanmaastrigt]

Originally Posted by bhandarisaurabh

can you make the recipe without using rss feeds.

Sure.

entrepeneurmag.zip

[Baumi]

My recipe wish is a little bit unusual in that I don't requite: The German newspaper taz already provides an epub edition (without DRM) for subscribers. When you go to http://www.taz.de/epub and enter valid credentials in the htaccess-form, the most current epub is automatically downloaded. To read it on my Cybook Gen3 with 1.5 firmware, I then use calibre to convert it, tag it as "News" and upload it to the reader.

Is it possible to use calibre's recipes to automate this process? I have (non-python) programming experience and already had a look at the API documentation and some of the sample recipes, but they're all geared very heavily towards processing HTML in one way or another. Furthermore, I couldn't even figure out how to enter the htaccess credentials.

I'm not sure if I should share my taz.de-login with anyone (would definitely be a TOS violation...), but if somebody could show me how to handle htaccess and how to deal with an epub news source, I should be able to connect the dots and create a custom recipe.

Thanks for any infos.

[mtutalo]

Originally Posted by Krittika Goyal

There is a recipe for providence journal included in the latest version of calibre. Is there a problem with that recipe?

I didnt know it was added to the new version. That is awesome and it works great! Thanks to all for your help in getting this added!

[kovidgoyal]

@Baumi: At some point I will write infrastructure in the news download system to handle downloading epub files directly. Until then you can do it yourself by overriding the build_index method to basically download the epub, unzip it and return the path to the opf file in the unzipped epub.

As for login, take a look at the various builting recipes that handle logins like: ny times, wall street journal, etc.

[Argueros]

Originally Posted by evanmaastrigt

Here we are:
Attachment 42166

Thanks a lot for this! Just saw it in the new version of Calibre. Specially useful since it pretty much recreate the same document that amazon sell for a monthly price of $17 dollars here in Mexico.

[bamasteve]

Hello,

I tried writing my own recepie using the manual instructions but it doesn't work.

http://www.mensfitness.com/rss_global/

Or to my hometown newspaper

http://www.al.com/rss/

I have only used Calibre for a couple of hours and I think it is an excellent tool.

I'm playing with it first before I decide which e-reader I will buy.

Thanks

Steve S.

Huntsville, AL

[chidam]

Can someone help me with the recipe of these tamil newspapers. I tried adding them in the Custom Recipes but downloading did not have any display.

These links are showing updated content in the web browsers using feedburner

Dinamalar
----------
http://rss.dinamalar.com/?cat=fpn
http://rss.dinamalar.com/?cat=pot
http://rss.dinamalar.com/?cat=INL
http://rss.dinamalar.com/?cat=business
http://rss.dinamalar.com/?cat=ara
http://rss.dinamalar.com/?cat=sam
http://rss.dinamalar.com/?cat=kut

Dinamani
---------
http://www.dinamani.com/edition/rssS...?SectionId=137

-Chidam

[lorenzov]

hi guys,

after doing some translation work to support Calibre, i'm slowly getting the hack of recipes and would very much appreciate any expert suggestions to solve a number of issues.

To start with what i can contribute with, i thought that Steve's last post is useful to ask how to solve a couple of issues i'm having with recipes to create ebooks from blog feeds. this i believe will be quite interesting for many other calibre users, at least from what i can tell from the questions in the thread

attached there is a possible first attempt to Men's fitness which i found interesting because there are tons of nested tables and not too easy to render. in fact there are some odd things to fix...

to start with the articles' index. i noticed this also in other recipes (i.e. darknet) in which the index of articles is on the second page, even though there is a single feed.
i was trying to figure out how to put the list of articles in the first page taking the example from the atlantic recipe, but i was not able to do what i wanted.

second, like it or not, i realised that there are plenty of 'malformed' feeds in which html tags don't have neither an id or class in the css, but it is not possible to delete them referring to the 'name' because otherwise all the other malformed tags are also removed.
i'm wondering if the beautifulSoup stuff would help, but i haven't figured out how to use that yet...

a while back someone asked if it would have been possible to do a recipe workshop. as personally i find the recipes the most powerful feature of calibre i'm wondering if a wiki section on recipes will provide extra info and support for all of us avid users of calibre?

for example, one of the things i could not find out is a 'template' for recipes to submit, therefore i kind of copied the format from some of them trying to be comprehensive, but i might find out that half of the things are actually useless.

finally, i'm working on a number of recipes for italian sources, if you have requests or would like to cooperate feel free to get in touch!

lorenzo

[lorenzov]

Steve, the Al.com one was actually much easier!

note that i have only selected a few feeds as an example, you need to edit the recipe with a text editor to suit your needs by adding the feeds you want

i.e.

(u'Birmingham News', u'http://blog.al.com/spotnews/atom.xml')

i'm also assuming that you are not interested in the comments following the articles, but if you are then in this section:

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

swap the second line with the following:

dict(name='div', attrs={'id':['article','comment','comment reply']})

lorenzo