Custom recipes (archive, read-only)

[tnzshn]

Originally Posted by kiklop74

There are quite a few. For example The new york times, Vreme, Borba online, Glas Srpske, Harpers magazine articles from printed edition etc.

You can see example here in recipe documentation:

http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/user_manual/news.html

Thanks, but NYT and Borba is too complicated for my level to make any adjustment. Also in the example of abv recipe documentation, most have "rss" / "feed" involved and what I need is much more simple.

Can help to check the chinese web site I'd advised before and help to make a recipe? Many thanks in adv.

[badkya]

I'm haven't yet started programming in Python... so I have a hackish and somewhat ugly Perl recipe for India Today. Output is not as well formatted as I would like... And it just converts it to HTML and then I postprocess it using mobiperl's html2mobi converter... It also lacks a nice ToC..

Will someone be interested in taking this recipe and porting it to Calibre? You do need to make a few permutations/changes to the URL to get to the print version of the article...

I was also going to start on a recipe for the Hindu.

http://www.hindu.com/rss/01hdline.xml Headlines
http://www.hindu.com/rss/05hdline.xml Opinions
http://www.hindu.com/rss/06hdline.xml Business

Thank you...

[kovidgoyal]

calibre already has a recipe for the hindu

[pghaworth]

Would someone please help me with this recipe. One already exists for the ScienceDaily but I need this specific section of it separated please. I have this condition and I need all the articles going as far back as possible - it may change my quality of life. Thank you for your help!

http://www.sciencedaily.com/rss/heal...bromyalgia.xml

I originally posted this in a thread that I think is for helping fix recipes when I meant to post it here.

[kiklop74]

Originally Posted by pghaworth

I originally posted this in a thread that I think is for helping fix recipes when I meant to post it here.

Here goes the recipe:

I never thought that writing a simple recipe could be so important to somebody. I hope you will get better.

[pghaworth]

Originally Posted by kiklop74

Here goes the recipe:

I never thought that writing a simple recipe could be so important to somebody. I hope you will get better.

Thank you for your well wishes. Here is a post related to this that I made

Originally Posted by pghaworth

Kovid - forgot to mention. Thanks to you and your wonderful program I found Science Daily. Through reading it I discovered a medication that may mean a huge difference in my condition. I already have an appointment with a doctor and it all started with you. If I could hug you I would. Many, many deep, heartfelt thanks.

On Tuesday I found information that may give me back my life. A year and a half ago I became ill and have no hope of full recovery, only of partial relief. If the medication I learned about in Science Daily does help it will be like a miracle to me. I am excited and energized just thinking of the possibility of going for a walk, resuming my photography passion, being able to work more or even just drive to Miami to see my son. The possibilities on the horizon are limitless if the medication works. Thank you so much for your efforts on my behalf.

[motdiem]

Probably a newbie error....

Here's the error I'm getting while trying out a recipe for NYMAG.COM

$ ../Downloads/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/loaders/feeds2disk --debug --test nymag.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/ziad/Downloads/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/loaders/feeds2disk.py", line 9, in <module>
    main()
  File "/Users/ziad/Downloads/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.6/site-packages.zip/calibre/web/feeds/main.py", line 164, in main
  File "/Users/ziad/Downloads/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.6/site-packages.zip/calibre/web/feeds/main.py", line 152, in run_recipe
  File "calibre/web/feeds/news.pyo", line 561, in download
  File "calibre/web/feeds/news.pyo", line 683, in build_index
  File "calibre/utils/terminfo.pyo", line 191, in update
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 38: ordinal not in range(128)

The recipe is inspired by the atlantic one.

Thanks for your help

[kovidgoyal]

Ypur attachment contains only anhtml file, not the recipe.

[motdiem]

D'oh - sorry about that - I zipped my test file instead of the py

Here is the correct one.

Thanks again for your time and this amazing app.

[kovidgoyal]

try this

[motdiem]

Thanks,

oddly enough, it works on my PC but not on my MAC.... (with calibre 0.5.9) - which is fine since I connect my sony from the pc anyway

Thanks for your help, the recipe isn't complete yet (I must have done something wrong since it goes to fetch the print version of the table of content instead of the articles), but I'll post it here once its done.

Ziad

[badkya]

Can anyone help me with the India Today recipe? I posted a Perl script earlier that can produce the mobi file. I was wondering if it can be triviailly converted into a Python recipe for Calibre?

[BarryTX]

A new user of Calibre here, and I don't find this question in the forum previously. I am a home (print) subscriber to the Houston Chronicle, and as such am given free access to an electronic version (with username and password to gain access). This is an "EDM" version; when I click on links a browser called "iBrowse" is launched, which appears to use flash somehow. The newspaper that is loaded is the same as the home version, with all pictures and graphics.

I can pull the Chronicle rss newsfeeds in Calibre to create a text-only version of the paper. My question is if it is possible to pull the above-described graphic version as well? If so, would there be a script you would recommend to use as the basis for me to attempt to modify? Many thanks in advance for your help.

Barry

[kiklop74]

Originally Posted by BarryTX

My question is if it is possible to pull the above-described graphic version as well?

No it is not possible.

[AngeloT]

Originally Posted by AngeloT

Thanks for your answer - I will happily wait for the next release to enjoy my Spiegel feed

Hi again - sorry to nag again but I still have problems with the german Spiegel Online recipe...

From the update on the Table of Contents with the abstract of the news was loaded correctly - but in the main part there is no text. For example: I do a click on the first news and it switches to this one where I get the menu "next-previous-section menu" but no text...

does anybody have an idea how to fix that?

thanx in advance
AngeloT