Custom recipes (archive, read-only)

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by ziegl027

Sadly, the daily strips are still truncated on the right, in both portrait and landscape. Do you (or anyone else) know if there is anything I can tweak in the recipe that will get them to display properly on my Touch?

Read this thread: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=77452

[kiklop74]

New recipe for Oil Price:

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by Starson17

I'll look for some when I get home. Just think of "url" as a string that you use Python string manipulation functions to modify before it gets returned.

Here's a simple way to do it:

    def print_version(self, url):
        parts = url.rsplit('?')
        print_url = parts[0] + '?Print=Yes'
        return print_url

It splits at the '?' and adds your '?Print=Yes' to the first half.

[Ekips]

Originally Posted by Starson17

Here's a simple way to do it:

    def print_version(self, url):
        parts = url.rsplit('?')
        print_url = parts[0] + '?Print=Yes'
        return print_url

It splits at the '?' and adds your '?Print=Yes' to the first half.

Hi,

thanks for that but unfortunately it didn't work, not sure whats going on, I've tried copying some of the links into firefox and changing the ends to

?Print=Yes

in case it was different for some links and they all accept the print code.

This is pretty odd, A single url.replace will work for any of them, add another and they both stop.

Doesn't matter if they are stacked or two separate lines of code as soon as you add the second it cancels out the first.

I'm at your mercy guys, I don't have a clue now.

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by Ekips

Hi,

thanks for that but unfortunately it didn't work

It worked for me (to make the change you wanted - I didn't check the retrieved data). Are you using the CLI or a batch file with a line like this:

ebook-convert TheSun.recipe TheSun --test -vv> TheSun.txt

If so, what does the output file say is happening when it fetches?

[Ekips]

Originally Posted by Starson17

It worked for me (to make the change you wanted - I didn't check the retrieved data). Are you using the CLI or a batch file with a line like this:

ebook-convert TheSun.recipe TheSun --test -vv> TheSun.txt

If so, what does the output file say is happening when it fetches?

Hi, I'm just running it in Calibre I didnt quite get the batch file or command line to work and figured I was being enough of a thread hog as it was.

If I set it to fetch just the news feed it works, soon as there's more than one feed it stops working.

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by Ekips

Hi, I'm just running it in Calibre I didnt quite get the batch file or command line to work and figured I was being enough of a thread hog as it was.

You can always open a new thread. You need to be able to see error messages, and add print statements to see what's happening. I find te batch file method works best for me.

If I set it to fetch just the news feed it works, soon as there's more than one feed it stops working.

I didn't test all your feeds, just the last one you pointed me to, which was the news feed. Are you sure that putting 'Print=Yes' as a replacement for everything after '?' is the right thing to do?

[ultimatebuster]

I have a quick question about a custom recipe, why does the kindle cut the article off at one exactly one page (sometimes it displays only half of the line.) If I try to reduce the text size, it will show more.

I used print_version, not sure if that's the issue.

[adrnalin]

Hi all,

This is my first post and i'd like to contribute my recipe for Australia Daily Telegraph. It's a cleaner than the original version, hopefully you guys enjoy it

#!/usr/bin/env  python
__license__   = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = '2008, Kovid Goyal kovid@kovidgoyal.net'
__docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'

'''
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/
'''
import re
from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe

class DailyTelegraph(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title          = u'Daily Telegraph'
    __author__     = u'Adrian G.'
    language = 'en_AU'

    description    = u'Daily Telegraph News'
    oldest_article = 5
    max_articles_per_feed = 100
    no_stylesheets = True
    use_embedded_content = False
    no_javascript = True


    timefmt               = ' [%A, %d %B, %Y]'
    encoding = 'utf-8'

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

    extra_css = '''
                  h1{font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-weight:bold; font-size:large;}
                  .cT-storyDetails{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:#666666;font-size:x-small;}
                  .articleBody{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:black;font-size:small;}
                  .cT-imageLandscape{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:#333333 ;font-size:x-small;}
                  .source{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:#333333 ;font-size:xx-small;}
                  #content{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small;}
                  .pageprint{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;}
                  #bylineDetails{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; color:#666666;font-size:x-small;}
                  .featurePic-wide{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small;}
                  #idfeaturepic{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small;}
                  h3{font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size:small;}
                  h2{font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size:small;}
                  h4{font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size:small;}
                  h5{font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif; font-size:small;}
                  body{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:x-small;}
                '''

    remove_tags     = [
                        dict(name='div', attrs ={'id':['comments','story-related-coverage']}),
                        dict(name='div', attrs ={'class':['story-header-tools','story-footer','story-extras','story-related']}),
                        dict(name='div', attrs ={'class':['promo-image','story-extras story-extras-2']}),
                        dict(name='div', attrs ={'class':['assistive sidebar-jump']})
                       ]

    feeds          = [
                      (u'Top Stories', u'http://feeds.news.com.au/public/rss/2.0/dtele_top_stories_253.xml'),
                      (u'National News', u'http://feeds.news.com.au/public/rss/2.0/dtele_national_news_202.xml'),
                      (u'World News', u'http://feeds.news.com.au/public/rss/2.0/dtele_world_news_204.xml'), 
                      (u'NSW and ACT', u'http://feeds.news.com.au/public/rss/2.0/dtele_nswact_225.xml'),
                      (u'Arts', u'http://feeds.news.com.au/public/rss/2.0/dtele_art_444.xml'), 
                      (u'Business News', u'http://feeds.news.com.au/public/rss/2.0/dtele_business_226.xml'), 
                      (u'Entertainment News', u'http://feeds.news.com.au/public/rss/2.0/dtele_entertainment_news_201.xml'), 
                      (u'Lifestyle News', u'http://feeds.news.com.au/public/rss/2.0/dtele_lifestyle_227.xml'), 
                      (u'Music', u'http://feeds.news.com.au/public/rss/2.0/dtele_music_441.xml'), 
                      (u'Property Confidential', u'http://feeds.news.com.au/public/rss/2.0/dtele_property_confidential_463.xml'), 
                      (u'Property - Your Space', u'http://feeds.news.com.au/public/rss/2.0/dtele_property_yourspace_462.xml'),
                      (u'Confidential News', u'http://feeds.news.com.au/public/rss/2.0/dtele_entertainment_confidential_252.xml'), 
                      (u'Confidential Biographies', u'http://feeds.news.com.au/public/rss/2.0/dtele_confidential_biographies_491.xml'), 
                      (u'Confidential Galleries', u'http://feeds.news.com.au/public/rss/2.0/dtele_confidential_galleries_483.xml'),
                      ]

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by ziegl027

I remain eternally grateful, and don't know if the issue is something with me/my device, or that today was Sundays, but the comics are clipped off on the right hand side . Tried changing the orientation and they are bigger, and still clipped off. Will try again tomorrow to see if the dailies fare better!

Originally Posted by Starson17

One of the readers is very easy to use, and my wife would like to be able to read the comics with that reader, but it's the one that cuts off the right. Can you, or anyone else, guide me towards how I might customize the recipe to help avoid cutting off the comics on the right. Was a CSS change made to help with this problem on the SONY? I know extra CSS can be added to a recipe.

To fix this first I changed my output profile to the Sony 300. This did help, a sliver was still chopped off but it was readable.

I then decided to add

img {max-width:100%;}

to the css I use for my PRS-505 and it works! It keeps the comics from exceeding the screen width.

You ought to be able to add this code to the extra css area under preferences - conversion - look & feel - extra css and prevent any images from exceeding the width of the screen.

So changing the profile to Sony 300 helped a little but adding the code to the css was a complete solution for any output profile selected.

Update: I created a css just for my comics by adding in

img {max-width:100%; min-width:100%;}

this way the single pane comics end up full screen. I might drop the minimum width a bit as I refine it, but I do like the single pane comics being large.

The minimum width setting would screw up many books so for the most part it is limited to comics.

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by dwanthny

You ought to be able to add this code to the extra css area

Great. Adding code like this was what I had in mind when I asked about possible CSS code to fix the image cutoff problems being reported. I'm not very good with the CSS options and don't have anything that Calibre recognizes as an "ereader" so I'm going to try your code directly in the recipe code. Thanks for the post/information!

[Semonski]

Hi.... First off.... I would appreciate some help with a recipe for the New York Post....

http://nypost.com/rss

I've toyed with this, and just can't seem to get it.... Although I AM NOT a python programmer.... any help would be greatly appreciated



And, below is a modification of some other recipe that I did for the Washington Times..... I'm a bit of a hack, so not sure if this is perfect, but the MOBI version seems to work very well with my Kindle....

******* start recipe
#!/usr/bin/env python
__license__ = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = '2008, Kovid Goyal kovid@kovidgoyal.net'
__docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'

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


class WashingtonTimes(BasicNewsRecipe):

title = 'Washington Times'
max_articles_per_feed = 15
html2lrf_options = ['--override-css= "H1 {font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; size: 10pt;}"']
language = 'en'


preprocess_regexps = [ (re.compile(i[0], re.IGNORECASE | re.DOTALL), i[1]) for i in
[
(r'<HEAD>.*?</HEAD>' , lambda match : '<HEAD></HEAD>'),
(r'<div id="apple-rss-sidebar-background">.*?<!-- start Entries -->', lambda match : ''),
(r'<!-- end apple-rss-content-area -->.*?</body>', lambda match : '</body>'),
(r'<script.*?>.*?</script>', lambda match : ''),
(r'<body onload=.*?>.*?<a href="http://www.upi.com">', lambda match : '<body style="font: 8pt arial;">'),
##(r'<div class=\'headerDIV\'><h2><a style="color: #990000;" href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/">Top News</a></h2></div>.*?<br clear="all">', lambda match : ''),
(r'<script src="http://www.g.*?>.*?</body>', lambda match : ''),
(r'<span style="font: 16pt arial', lambda match : '<span style="font: 12pt arial'),
]
]



def get_feeds(self):
return [ (u'Headlines', u'http://www.washingtontimes.com/rss/headlines/news/headlines/'),
(u'Newsmakers', u'http://www.washingtontimes.com/rss/headlines/news/newsmakers/'),
(u'National', u'http://www.washingtontimes.com/rss/headlines/news/national/'),
(u'World', u'http://www.washingtontimes.com/rss/headlines/news/world/'),
(u'Editor Favs', u'http://www.washingtontimes.com/rss/headlines/news/editor-favorites/'),
(u'Editorials', u'http://www.washingtontimes.com/rss/headlines/opinion/editorials/'),
(u'Cartoons', u'http://www.washingtontimes.com/rss/headlines/opinion/cartoons/'),
(u'Business', u'http://www.washingtontimes.com/rss/headlines/news/business/'),
(u'Technology', u'http://www.washingtontimes.com/rss/headlines/news/technology/'),
(u'Security', u'http://www.washingtontimes.com/rss/headlines/news/security/'),
(u'Politics', u'http://www.washingtontimes.com/rss/headlines/news/politics/'),
(u'Congress', u'http://www.washingtontimes.com/rss/headlines/news/congress/'),
]

def print_version(self, url):
return url + '/print/'

******* end recipe

[kiklop74]

New recipe for Tulsa World:

[tulsa]

Originally Posted by kiklop74

New recipe for Tulsa World:

woo hoo! thanks!

[nextONE]

Can anyone help me to get a recipe for congressdaily from the National Journal? I am looking to get the RSS feed and ability to login.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/rss/congressdailyam.rss

Thanks for your help.