Custom recipes (archive, read-only)

[Mnementh]

Originally Posted by ilovejedd

Looks like you're not specifying the source. Which recipe are you using? The first one in the post with the zip or the last one I posted which links to my own webserver?

def print_version(self, url):
    main, sep, rest = url.rpartition('/1/')
    rmain, rsep, storyid = main.rpartition('/s/')
    return 'http://localhost/flag/getstory.php?source=ffnet&format=news&storyid=' + storyid

Note source=ffnet is specifically stated in the url. This script can also be used for FictionPress, you just change source=ffnet to source=fpress.

The zip file should contain a print.php file which you can also use. That one automatically uses ffnet as source. Just change the recipe to the following:

def print_version(self, url):
    main, sep, rest = url.rpartition('/1/')
    rmain, rsep, storyid = main.rpartition('/s/')
    return 'http://localhost/flag/print.php?storyid=' + storyid

However, I'm not sure what version of the script is still attached in the zip file. I think that one still hasn't been fixed to reflect the crossover changes FanFiction.Net implemented. I suggest using the online version of the recipe in the meantime.

Hmmm okay, I think I might be getting a bit confused as to how these scripts work if I'm reading what you said correctly.

I was using the flag.zip from the first post, I didn't realise there was an online version (except for eyrad's (I think that was his username) but that's been down since I stumbled upon this).

I think I'm gonna have to read up some more on using recipes in calibre before bothering people with questions again lol. Basically what I want is to be able to input a story id somewhere and have the script pull down all the chapters and turn them into one file.

Thank you for your help

[ilovejedd]

The Calibre recipe is designed to retrieve a bunch of stories based on a feed. It's good if you want to, say, download all stories updated within the last few days or download all the stories by an author. For downloading individual stories, not so good.

If you just need to output individual stories to html, you can use the following URL:

http://www.utterlyinsane.org/fflag/print.php?storyid=#######

Where ####### is the storyid. There's also a PHP script included in the ZIP file that you can use in command line mode.

"C:\xampp\php\php.exe" "C:\xampp\htdocs\flag\fflag" -s ffnet -i storyid -f format -o filename.ext

So far, currently supported formats include html, epub and lrf. Both epub and lrf formats require Calibre to be installed. I should be able to add support for other output formats supported by Calibre.

P.S.
For non-Calibre recipe inquiries (e.g. problems with the PHP script), please post on the FLAG thread in the future. I don't think it's good to continue cluttering up this thread with unrelated discussion.

[Mnementh]

That is brilliant that's exactly what I'm looking for thank you.

I've now managed to get my head around how the recipes work after your previous post, the only problem I had was it put all the books into one big file which wasn't quite what I'm after, this will sort the problem perfectly thank you.

Edit: When trying to use the URL you posted I get a 404. (I'm changing the storid not leaving the hashes )

On a side note when trying to use the CLI php.exe crashes for some reason when trying to create the epub file (can't do lrf as Stanza won't read it) is this format supported or should i reinstall php? Just want to check before going through the hassle of reinstalling.

Sorry for all the questions and sorry to everybody if this is OT

Edit 2: gah just saw your edit lol, i will take this to that thread thanks.

[iNdioNicarao]

Originally Posted by kiklop74

Actually it was not that hard as I thought:

La Prensa - Nicaragua

Thank you very much sir!

I appreciate it.

[MelC]

Originally Posted by kiklop74

Try this recipe for Metronews:

Can someone tell me how do I add this to the existing selections for fetch news in 0.5.3?

Mel

[donCalpe]

@kovidgoyal
Thanks for the tip, I will give it a try today.

[Darqref]

I'm using the standard included recipe for the Christian Science Monitor (and my breakthrough reason for starting to use Calibre is that the Monitor just converted to online only for daily news). I'm finding that there are blank pages at the beginning, so when I select the book on my cybook it looks like nothing happens - I have to page forward a couple times before I get to the Toc.

Any easy way to automatically get rid of the blank page? (After looking at this in Calibre's viewer of the Epub version, I *think* the blank page is still there, so it shouldn't be an artifact of the conversion to mobi.)

And, is there an easy way to tell Calibre to use a standard image as the cover image to go with the resulting book?

[kovidgoyal]

this blank page is after the cover?

[Darqref]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

this blank page is after the cover?

No, there wasn't a cover. I looked on the Monitor's website, and there really isn't a good image that would work as a cover. I went back to a print edition from weeks ago and tried to grab a logo to use as a default cover, and just wanted to know how to make the recipe grab it from my hard drive.

Now I've looked at the recipe results a little closer, and it seems incomplete. It uses the text edition page, but currently (at least so far this week, anyway) it doesn't actually list all the articles that normally would be included in the day's "edition". I trying to play a little bit with a new recipe to go off the rss feeds instead, but I'm gonna be slow at this. And I'm also going to send a note to the editors to see if they can't get the complete article list back on the Text Edition page. Could be just a product of not actually producing a paper edition this week.

The blank page I was seeing is after where I would expect a cover to display. In the calibre viewer I had to page forward three times to get to the toc. On my cybook, I had to page forward twice, I think.

[kovidgoyal]

the cover problem is a regression try re-downloading the latest calibre build (unless you're on linux, then you'll have to wait till the next release).

[MelC]

Originally Posted by MelC

Can someone tell me how do I add this to the existing selections for fetch news in 0.5.3?

Mel

Looking for a how-to add recipes description. Not up to creating a recipe as yet but this one looks like something I could use. However, the description on the Calibre website shows a screenshot which doesn't appear anywhere in my version (the latest) of Calibre for Mac OS. In particular I can't find any tabs or buttons for Advanced Options under Fetch News or Settings.

Thanks.

Mel

[kovidgoyal]

Click the arrow next to the fetch news button and select add a custom news source, then click the advanced mode button and paste the recipe in

[scwehrl]

Washington Post recipe ('Nation', 'http://www.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...tion/index.xml'), needs to be ('Nation', 'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/rss/nation/index.xml'), ? (consistently shows as a failed feed)

[kovidgoyal]

Hmm I can't see any difference between the two links??

[bds4242]

I would love some help with this feed for our local newspaper. When I just try the default news recipe the resultant book just lists 'you need to be signed in' for all the articles.

Thanks in advance for any help!

http://rss.azstarnet.com/index.php?site=metro