Custom recipes (archive, read-only)

[kiklop74]

@Kovid

May I ask why are you not adding russian recipes I posted in this thread? Should I add separate issue in trac or there is some other reason?

[kovidgoyal]

I'll add them once calibre supports font embedding in EPUB. Otherwise users trying to use the recipes will end up with EPUB files that don't work.

[kiklop74]

I see. I just have to note that recipes do work on Sony reader provided that user manually place adequate font in reader's internal memory.

[kovidgoyal]

Yeah I know, but since a new user wont know that, I'll keep getting bug reports about the recipes.

[kiklop74]

New recipe for Mexican news portal El universal:

[jbanos]

Gracias Kiklop74, you are very fast, I can see from your recipe where my mistke was.

[jcastr]

Hello,
If possible, could you post a recipe for the Miami Herald, http://www.miamiherald.com/rss/. Thanks in advance.

Jcastr

[kiklop74]

New recipe for Miami herald

[jcastr]

Thanks kiklop74, you're amazing.

[ilovejedd]

Question, how do I force page breaks in news recipes? I tried adding: extra_css = .chapter { page-break-before: always } but I think Calibre is overriding it by adding: style="page-break-before:avoid;page-break-after:avoid" to every <div class="chapter"> entry.

I also tried adding: <span style="page-break-before: always"></span> before <div class="chapter"> to the print version but it looks like those lines are just being stripped away. Pretty sure this is a news specific behavior since using the command line html2epub on the individual print version gives me a really nice epub with page breaks.

#!/usr/bin/env  python

__license__   = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = '2009, tifa1984'
'''
www.fanfiction.net
'''

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

class FFNetFeed(BasicNewsRecipe):
	title	= u'FFNetFeed'
	__author__	= 'FanFiction.Net'
	description	= 'unleash your imagination'
	
	oldest_article = 7
	
	extra_css = .chapter { page-break-before: always }
	
	feeds	= [
		('Rurouni Kenshin - Kaoru/Kenshin', 'http://www.fanfiction.net/atom/l/355/10/0/1/1/0/410/411/0/0/')
		]
	
	def print_version(self, url):
		main, sep, rest = url.rpartition('/1/')
		rmain, rsep, storyid = main.rpartition('/s/')
		return 'http://localhost/flag/print.php?source=ffnet&format=news&storyid=' + storyid

I'm attaching the PHP scripts I used for generating the print version along with some sample HTML output. I'm trying to convert the algorithm to a Calibre recipe but alas, it's taking me a long time to do so.

Dependencies:
php5-cli
php5-curl
php5-tidy

[kovidgoyal]

Befor I debug this, why aren't you just fetching the stories directly from fanfiction.net?

[ilovejedd]

I already do if I find a specific story I like or one which shows promise. Individual fanfics get automatically converted to epub format complete with table of contents, tags and summary.

I made a recipe for Calibre to automate periodic downloads of new or updated fanfics from the categories I visit. Sort of a "sample pack" to read on my iPhone. As many gems as I've found on ff.net, I often have to wade through the muck to find them. Unfortunately, iPhone+Safari+AT&T EDGE makes wading through the muck a very unpleasant experience. Stanza is ideal in this regard since I can easily choose a different story from the table of contents. It's just that not having page breaks in between chapters is bugging me (pardon the pun).

However, I thought this would just take a simple fix in the recipe or print version. The PHP scripts and sample HTML were attached due to my obsessive-compulsive behavior to give as much information as possible.

If it will take you a significant amount of time to trace and fix this non-error, then never mind. I can live without the page breaks.

[kovidgoyal]

Ah well yeah it would take a bit of time to debug this, so I'm going to pass.

[kiklop74]

Originally Posted by ilovejedd

Question, how do I force page breaks in news recipes?

If you really want to force use of some css you need to use following method in the recipe (in case of EPUB format):

    html2epub_options = 'override_css=" <some CSS> "'

This places your css rule as the last css in every css file and thus enforces it regardless of what calibre previously does.

[etherspin]

is there a certain kind of news source / blog this is not suitable for ?
If anyone was up for the task (consider that a request !) it would be great to see treehugger or ecogeek as a news source