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[Over]

Ok, I've tried to add the feeds, but calibre gives an error qhen I try to load it:

ERROR: Invalid input: <p>Could not create recipe. Error:<br>invalid syntax (recipe29.py, line 67)

Here's the ony part I changed:

    feeds = [
               (u'Breaking News', u'http://www.nursingtimes.net/XmlServers/navsectionRSS.aspx?navsectioncode=1')
              ,(u'Practice', u'http://www.nursingtimes.net/XmlServers/navsectionRSS.aspx?navsectioncode=512')
              ,(u'Behind the headlines', u'http://www.nursingtimes.net/XmlServers/navsectionRSS.aspx?navsectioncode=468')
              ,(u'Analysis', u'http://www.nursingtimes.net/XmlServers/navsectionRSS.aspx?navsectioncode=62')
              ,(u'Acute Care news', u'http://www.nursingtimes.net/XmlServers/navsectionRSS.aspx?navsectioncode=5')
              ,(u'Primary Care news', u'http://www.nursingtimes.net/XmlServers/navsectionRSS.aspx?navsectioncode=231')
              ,(u'Mental Health news', u'http://www.nursingtimes.net/XmlServers/navsectionRSS.aspx?navsectioncode=27')
              ,(u'Management news', u'http://www.nursingtimes.net/XmlServers/navsectionRSS.aspx?navsectioncode=32')
              ,(u'Infection control news', u'http://www.nursingtimes.net/XmlServers/navsectionRSS.aspx?navsectioncode=456')
              ,(u'Older people's news', u'http://www.nursingtimes.net/XmlServers/navsectionRSS.aspx?navsectioncode=181')
              ,(u'Paediatric news', u'http://www.nursingtimes.net/XmlServers/navsectionRSS.aspx?navsectioncode=170')
              ,(u'Respiratory news', u'http://www.nursingtimes.net/XmlServers/navsectionRSS.aspx?navsectioncode=177')
              ,(u'Wound care news', u'http://www.nursingtimes.net/XmlServers/navsectionRSS.aspx?navsectioncode=182')
              ,(u'Acute Care practice', u'http://www.nursingtimes.net/XmlServers/navsectionRSS.aspx?navsectioncode=261')
              ,(u'Primary Care practice', u'http://www.nursingtimes.net/XmlServers/navsectionRSS.aspx?navsectioncode=303')
              ,(u'Mental Health practice', u'http://www.nursingtimes.net/XmlServers/navsectionRSS.aspx?navsectioncode=319')
              ,(u'Infection control practice', u'http://www.nursingtimes.net/XmlServers/navsectionRSS.aspx?navsectioncode=400')
              ,(u'Older people's practice', u'http://www.nursingtimes.net/XmlServers/navsectionRSS.aspx?navsectioncode=365')
              ,(u'Paediatric practice', u'http://www.nursingtimes.net/XmlServers/navsectionRSS.aspx?navsectioncode=342')
              ,(u'Respiratory practice', u'http://www.nursingtimes.net/XmlServers/navsectionRSS.aspx?navsectioncode=416')
              ,(u'Wound care practice', u'http://www.nursingtimes.net/XmlServers/navsectionRSS.aspx?navsectioncode=377')
            ]

Is it because I've added too many feeds?

[Over]

Aha! I think I know what's the problem! One of the titles has an «'», so that section name must be between " instead of '.

You did it right the first time, but when I started to add feed, I though I had placed the " by mistake and changed to '.

Now calibre acepted the recipe and I'm fetching the news.

[Over]

Strange... It didn't sign in to get the feeds I've added, but it fetches the other feeds, although all of them need registering...

Please, help!

[evanmaastrigt]

Originally Posted by Over

Aha! I think I know what's the problem! One of the titles has an «'», so that section name must be between " instead of '.

Just a tip: when you are editing recipes in calibre's GUI and you are not so comfortable with Python syntax: save your edits line by line. Or block by block in the case of 'if' or 'for' constructs. Line numbers are not visible in the recipe, and the line number the error gives will be off by 3, 2, or sometimes only 1 line anyway. If you do it line by line you will know immediately where to look.

Or do your editing in a Python syntax aware text editor. That would have flagged this error right on the spot.

[Over]

Problem solved! Sorry for so many posts in a row.

@evanmaastrigt: thanks for the tip.

[kiklop74]

Originally Posted by Over

BTW, how do I include the little image you bundled with the recipe?

You cant. Only Kovid can add those images.

Originally Posted by Over

And one more question, maybe it's related to the one above: is it possible to change the default calibre image in the sections list?

No. You can, however, submit a feature request for that functionality.

[cix3]

New recipe for JazzTimes
jazztimes.com

class jazztimes(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title = 'JazzTimes'
    __author__ = 'cix3'
    description = 'Widely regarded as the worlds leading jazz publication'
    timefmt = ' [%b %d, %Y]'

    oldest_article = 30
    max_articles_per_feed = 100
    no_stylesheets = True

    remove_tags = [dict(name='div', attrs={'id':['logo', 'comments', 'related_objects', 'inset module', 'footer', 'strip_control', 'header', 'navigation']}), dict(name='hr'), dict(name='img')]

    feeds = [
        ('jazztimes', 'http://jazztimes.com/feeds/all.rss')
            ]

Would love it if someone could create a recipe for the actual magazine!
http://jazztimes.com/issues/201002

[DoctorOhh]

This is an improved recipe for the Raleigh News & Observer.

It improves/replaces the existing News and Observer recipe.

Had to clean up some added features the paper added to their site. Icon included.

[jpc66]

Hi All,

My apologies for the delay. I was really busy and didn't have the time to check the latest posts.

OK, here they are: Recipes for the newspaper Metro Montreal, The Gazette from Montreal and an improved version of Discover Magazine.

Regards,

JC

[andersent]

Originally Posted by kiklop74

You are able to do that. In fact all recipes do exactly that. The difference is the source of the links. It is either RSS feed (which is just an xml), or common html page.

In case of RSS feeds everything is more or less automated, custom programming is required for extracting links from common web page.

For an example of this just take a look at this page:

http://calibre-ebook.com/user_manual/news.html

Thanks. I've looked the link you provided above over (had seen it before actually and that's where I got the idea of being able to get feeds from links embedded on a common page instead of just having to specify the links in the rss <item> tags of an rss.xml file). However, i get a bit lost in all of the stuff that is being done and discussed in the help link you referenced. I assume, for example, that it's the new york times recipe example that you are referring to and I see it uses soup. But I'm not sure exactly how to translate this example to mine--for example when it uses a for each statement I think i need to do something similar but not sure exactly what. I am a programmer (.net vb and c#) but have never worked with python. I've looked through several parts of the manual on custom recipes and learning python, etc. I get some of it and have been able to do my own custom recipes for some basic rss feeds. But could you just get me started here on how I would get the feeds from the specific web page I referenced in my original post on this thread? Thanks!

[Nic]

Hi!

Is there a recipe for onionnew.com ? It would be fun to have this one.


Thank you!

[kiklop74]

You already have a recipe for The Onion

[Nic]

ahhh yes, thank you!

[Mitchellbooks]

Could you come up with a recipe for the Journal News?
Thanks

[kiklop74]

How about a link to that site. I have no idea what journal news is or where its located.