Help writing profile to get RSS feed

[Lemoine]

In all feeds i can use...

For instance Newsweek or The New Yorker, but all the feeds are touched by this problem.

Title and Pubdate simply appear, not Description

[kovidgoyal]

Well Newsweek has started using the description tag for ads

There was a bug affecting the others, which will be fixed in the next release.

[Lemoine]

Thank you Kovid for all your work....

[Deputy-Dawg]

Kovid,
All That I have checked, even my custom. It appears to be a "feature" web2lrf, because I get the same result when I run it from terminal.

BTW do you have any experience in installing and using GutenMark on an Intel Mac. I can't get it to run on mine. I am pretty sure that Perl is operative in as much as Tidy does work.

[kovidgoyal]

No I don't use Macs.

[Deputy-Dawg]

Kovid,
Is it possible to use the web2lrf function to capture fees like:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/exclusive/

If so, could you give me another leg up?

[kovidgoyal]

yeah you have to parse the HTML page and create the list of articles manually. See the profile in atlantic.py for an example of how to do this.

[Deputy-Dawg]

Kovid,
Thanks, I'll take a look.

BTW html2lrf is broken in 4.42. I call it and it just hangs. All I get is a singld
>

at the extreme edge of the terminal screen. All I can do is kill the call with a command period. Sigh!

[kovidgoyal]

I'm assuming this is on OS X? I jusr re-uploaded a new build of 0.4.42 for OS X. Try it.

[Deputy-Dawg]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

I'm assuming this is on OS X? I jusr re-uploaded a new build of 0.4.42 for OS X. Try it.

Yes, I am using Mac OS X (actually Leopard 10.5.2 on a dual core Macbook Pro) Just moments ago I downloaded the most currentversion of librs-500
tat being 0.4.42 and still have the problem. If there is any thing I can do to help track this gremlin done you have but to ask.

[kovidgoyal]

Run it on some simple HTML file with the --verbose switch. What happens?

[Deputy-Dawg]

Kovid,
The results are a tad strange. Allow me to explain. To insure that I always use the same command when I process a book I type it out in a text editor then do a copy and paste into the terminal. With that as a premise, and to be sure that the program hung I copied and pasted the following command line into my terminal and hit a return:

html2lrf --verbose --force-page-break-before-tag='page-break' --blank-after-para --base-font-size=8 creeds-000.html

And terminal hung as I reproted previously.

I then entered the following command were the file creeds-002,html is Chapter one of the book.

html2lrf --verbose creeds-002-html

and darned if the program didn't run.

so then I entered

html2lrf --verbose --page-break-before-tag='page-break' creeds-002.html

and it worked, so then I tried

html2lrf -- verbose --blank-after-para creeds-002.html

and again the program worked so I tried

html2lrf --verbose --page-break-before-tag='page-break' creeds-000.html

and

html2lrf -- verbose --blank-after-para creeds-000.html

thinking it might have been something in the original file that was the difficulty. Wasn't so. So I finally re-entered my original command

html2lrf --verbose --force-page-break-before-tag='page-break' --blank-after-para --base-font-size=8 creeds-000.html

And it now works as well, the long and the short of it is that sine I used just the base command on a very simple file I can no longer reproduce the problem.

[kovidgoyal]

hmm chalk it up to close encounter of the third kind

[balok]

Originally Posted by Deputy-Dawg

Thanks, that was the leg up I needed. I have a bit more to do on the profile. When I am done is there anyway that I can integrate it into the GUI? I am so darn clumsy in typing! Being 74 with Parkinson's does make life a bit more complicate.

On the other hand the 'need' to learn yet another language is stimulating.

Deputy-Dawg, are you really 74? I've never met a person over 50 who can handle a computer beyond pointing and clicking with difficulty. You must have been a professor or an engineer during your working career.

[Deputy-Dawg]

Originally Posted by balok

Deputy-Dawg, are you really 74? I've never met a person over 50 who can handle a computer beyond pointing and clicking with difficulty. You must have been a professor or an engineer during your working career.

Actually I am but 5 weeks from 75 birthday. My degree is in chemistry (science not engineering - there are no plumbers in my house! But that was only because there were no degrees, indeed no courses in computer science I went to school. But while I was in college I developed a real love hate relationship with computers. Being the nerd that I was, at graduation time I had sufficient credits so that I could have had my degree in Chemistry - which was my stated major; mathmatics - which I am convinced is probably true of the vast majority of people who study the hard sciences or in philosophy. It was also the first year that student records had been commited to a computer, which decided on the Thursday before graduation (commencements were always on Sunday) that I had not completed my degree requirements, perhaps I should say we had not completed them because of the ability to choose between three degrees it made the assumption that there were three of me. My mother was devastated! I was not thrilled either.

But the following Monday I went and saw my faculty advisor to find out what courses I needed to take to get my degree. She, with a devilish grin, told me that late on Sunday they realized that there had to be a bug in the program in that although it might be barely possible to have three students in class wiih the same name there just was no way that three students, indeed even two that would ever have the same student ID number. Went further to say that one of my math professors, who was long into statistical analysis was totally incapable of calculating the odds of three students with the same name and the same ID number.

Then she said, cutting to the chase, that I had graduated with the degree in chemistry since that had been my stated major when I had matriculate. Then she told me that she would be happy to enroll me in graduate school.

So as I said a love hate relationship was created. Indeed I threatened on that fateful morn to take fire axe and cut the computers power cord into neat 6" lengths. So it continued for some forty years at the end of which I had become the manager of the engineering computer center of a major US corporation. And there is another story of love and hate!!