Custom recipes (archive, read-only)

[rainbowworrier]

I would like to second Andreiko's vote of thanks! I'm a newbie and have only just learned what an RSS feed is, but I'm thrilled to be able to load them onto my new ereader!

I would also like some Russian language news feeds please, the general news site that Andreiko recommends looks good. I would also like a science news site. Maybe http://www.gazeta.ru/science/ or http://www.nkj.ru/?

Once again many thanks!

[highwaykind]

Could someone help me figure out how to get the Smashing Magazine feed into Calibre?
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/wp-rss.php

I'm not that good with codes and don't know any python so the explanation in the Manual is a bit too complicated.
As long as the feed has the pictures and the text I don't much care what it looks like..

Thanks!

[strico]

I know there's already a custom feed for The Guardian.
However, it will be nice if I could have the print edition of the same newspaper:

I believe it could be done by slightly modifying the current Guardian recipe
The print edition fetching is perfectly done for The Economist

The URL:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian

[kovidgoyal]

@strico: Open a ticket for that, or it will get lost

[strico]

@strico: Open a ticket for that, or it will get lost

.

I will do that, thanks.

[L4ur3nt]

Hello all,

I have a problem with this flux rss :

http://rss.futura-sciences.com/packfs

I got some stranges thinks in the text like this

.');" onmouseout="killlink()">

Does somebody know why? Thank you very much!

[dazzla]

On the xkcd feed it doesn't display quite right on the PRS-300. The comics seem to be cut off on the right hand side (about 5-10 pixels). Just enough to miss a few letters on wide comics.

Anyone else have this problem? Anyone know of a way to customise the conversion to narrow it up a bit?

[olaf]

A question - maybe this is in the manual, but I didn't find it, or understand it if it were mentioned. I am trying to get a local newspaper version setup from RSS feeds, but I get a wealth of stuff I don't want included in the final output. Is there a way for me to output the pre-formatted html to a file, so I can actually see what HTML tags I need to get rid of (filter out with the remove tags option, or other logic)?

[GRiker]

Easiest way is to navigate to the subject page in your browser, then use View Source to see the HTML. The 'View Source' menu option will differ based upon your browser, but all the major browsers offer it. Firefox does a nice job of formatting the output.

G

[kovidgoyal]

I find the Firebug Firefox extension to be very useful for figuring out what content to exclude from the page.

[kiklop74]

Originally Posted by highwaykind

Could someone help me figure out how to get the Smashing Magazine feed into Calibre?
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/wp-rss.php

I'm not that good with codes and don't know any python so the explanation in the Manual is a bit too complicated.
As long as the feed has the pictures and the text I don't much care what it looks like..

Thanks!

Here goes:

[kiklop74]

The Toronto Star:

[MichaelMSeattle]

Hi all. Great app, great forum!

I've struggled for some time trying to get a simple recipe for the New York Times Magazine. (This is a seperate link from the New York Times subscription feed.)
I've Googled and studied these pages and experimented, but no luck.

Here's what works:

class NYTimesMagazine(BasicNewsRecipe):
title = u'The New York Times Magazine'
__author__ = 'calibre'
language = 'en'

description = 'New York Times Magazine'
timefmt = ''
oldest_article = 7
max_articles_per_feed = 300
use_embedded_content = False
no_stylesheets = True
encoding = 'utf-8'

feeds = [(u'Magazine', u'http://feeds.nytimes.com/nyt/rss/Magazine'),
(u'The Ethicist', u'http://ethicist.blogs.nytimes.com/feed/'),
(u'Motherload', u'http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/feed/'),
(u'Medium', u'http://themedium.blogs.nytimes.com/feed/')]

-----------------------------------

The problem is the results only return one page of each article. I've tried adding "recursions = 2" but that just slows the process down exponentially. I know the answer is to use the print page but I can't figure out how to do this.

I have noticed that the difference between the NYTMag articles and print articles is an additional parameter to the url:

normal:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/ma...-medium-t.html
print:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/ma...gewanted=print

Can someone please assist with this?
Thanks big time!
-Mike

[MichaelMSeattle]

oops - the links didn't show as text just as links. Here's the differences I meant:

normal:
"h t t p://w w w.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/magazine/30FOB-medium-t.html"
print:
"h t t p://w w w.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/magazine/30FOB-medium-t.html?pagewanted=print"

Originally Posted by MichaelMSeattle

Hi all. Great app, great forum!

I've struggled for some time trying to get a simple recipe for the New York Times Magazine. (This is a seperate link from the New York Times subscription feed.)
I've Googled and studied these pages and experimented, but no luck.

Here's what works:

class NYTimesMagazine(BasicNewsRecipe):
title = u'The New York Times Magazine'
__author__ = 'calibre'
language = 'en'

description = 'New York Times Magazine'
timefmt = ''
oldest_article = 7
max_articles_per_feed = 300
use_embedded_content = False
no_stylesheets = True
encoding = 'utf-8'

feeds = [(u'Magazine', u'http://feeds.nytimes.com/nyt/rss/Magazine'),
(u'The Ethicist', u'http://ethicist.blogs.nytimes.com/feed/'),
(u'Motherload', u'http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/feed/'),
(u'Medium', u'http://themedium.blogs.nytimes.com/feed/')]

-----------------------------------

The problem is the results only return one page of each article. I've tried adding "recursions = 2" but that just slows the process down exponentially. I know the answer is to use the print page but I can't figure out how to do this.

I have noticed that the difference between the NYTMag articles and print articles is an additional parameter to the url:

normal:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/ma...-medium-t.html
print:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/ma...gewanted=print

Can someone please assist with this?
Thanks big time!
-Mike

[Gomes]

Originally Posted by radikaldissent

I've read through this thread and I've heard someone request a philly.com recipe. I'm not sure if someone got around to it but I created a recipe for the Philadelphia Inquirer (http://www.philly.com/inquirer/). It seems to work okay and I've attached it to this post. I'm always open to suggestions or advice to improve it.

That was me. Thanks so much!