The Kindle and Newspaper Subscriptions and Calibre

[jj2me]

Originally Posted by daffy4u

In Calibre 0.6.27 it's under "English [137]" and listed alphabetically as "The Los Angeles Times". Yesterday I tried to find a way to open the recipe and dissect it but couldn't. Let us know if you find a way.

I found the built-in recipe files at C:\Program Files\Calibre2\resources\recipes on a Windows PC.

For Custom recipes, they show up in the Calibre GUI when you click the down-arrow on the right of the "Fetch news" button and select "Add a custom news source", then select a recipe title and click the Advanced tab on the right.

[daffy4u]

Originally Posted by jj2me

I found the built-in recipe files at C:\Program Files\Calibre2\resources\recipes on a Windows PC.

That's what we were looking for! Thanks.

The rest I knew as you can see from the images I attached in an earlier post.

[daffy4u]

Originally Posted by jj2me

For Custom recipes, they show up in the Calibre GUI when you click the down-arrow on the right of the "Fetch news" button and select "Add a custom news source", then select a recipe title and click the Advanced tab on the right.

Okay, now I have a better understanding of what you were saying for this part.

Once in the area where you create your own custom feed, there is and option to look at and further customize a built-in recipe. In the case of the L.A. Times, the recipe is actually a Python script not just the normal feeds we pull from the we pull from a web site.

Just a snippet of the code:

    feeds          = [(u'News', u'http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/news')
                      ,(u'Local','http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/news/local')
                      ,(u'MostEmailed','http://feeds.latimes.com/MostEmailed')
                      ,(u'Politics','http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/news/local/politics/cal/')
                      ,('OrangeCounty','http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/news/local/orange/')
                      ,('National','http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/news/nationworld/nation')
                      ,('Politics','http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/news/politics/')
                      ,('Business','http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/business')
                      ,('Sports','http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/sports/')
                      ,('Entertainment','http://feeds.latimes.com/latimes/entertainment/')
                      ]


    def get_article_url(self, article):
        ans = article.get('feedburner_origlink').rpartition('?')[0]

It looks like it might be simple enough to swap out the L.A. Times feeds with other feeds (carefully checking the whole script not just this section).

And it looks like feedburner is used to create the feeds (which I just realized I've used before to create a feed for a Pre app for a site that didn't have an RSS feed).

BTW, I tried to copy and paste the urls directly into my browser and they didn't work, it just sent me to my Google Reader "add a feed" page.

I don't think it can hurt to try, just don't email it to your Kindle until the bugs are worked out. Just fetch it directly into Calibre.

I am going to play with it over the week to see what I can do.

[daffy4u]

For those playing along with me, the Calibre online user guide has a section called "Customizing the Fetch Process" which walks us through creating the more complex recipes.

[Mike L]

Originally Posted by daffy4u

For those playing along with me, the Calibre online user guide has a section called "Customizing the Fetch Process" which walks us through creating the more complex recipes.

Yes, I am playing along with you - with some success.

I mentioned earlier that I was irritated by the junk that gets downloaded at the end of every article. This includes all the usual "email to a friend" stuff, plus links to all the other articles in that day's paper, and a lot more.

I studied the page of the user manual that you gave a link for, and realised I could get rid of the junk. I've now managed to do that, although it was by trial and error rather than a deep understanding of how the recipes work.

But I've ended up with a simple download containing just the articles without the junk, each starting on a new page - and only the sections of the paper I'm interested in.

So thanks for poining out what's possible. I'm encouraged to go further with this process.

[daffy4u]

Yay! I won't get to do my own playing until the weekend but I too am encouraged by your progress. Thanks!