Setting title and date for a news ebook downloaded through calibre

sup · 09-07-2016, 09:51 AM

Is there a way to set a date and title of an ebook from a recipe? Now the date is set to the current date, even if one downloads news that was issued a few days back (this is especially confusing when you download a few old issues in a row - it would be easy to fetch the current day from the web but I do not know how to apply it to the mobi file's metadata).

kovidgoyal · 09-07-2016, 10:10 AM

conversion_options allows you to pass options to the conversion system during recipe creation. IIRC that will allow you to set pubdate though not the date added field.

sup · 09-07-2016, 11:09 AM

Thanks, that worked!

(for anyone stumbling upond this, when you try to update the values from a method like parse_index(), you need to set self.conversion_options and self.title, the key for date in conversion_options is 'pubkey' and it translates the string "24/12/2016" as December 12 2016, I am not sure if this is locale dependent or not).

09-07-2016, 09:51 AM	#1
sup Connoisseur Posts: 95 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2013 Device: Kindle Paperwhite (2012)	Setting title and date for a news ebook downloaded through calibre Is there a way to set a date and title of an ebook from a recipe? Now the date is set to the current date, even if one downloads news that was issued a few days back (this is especially confusing when you download a few old issues in a row - it would be easy to fetch the current day from the web but I do not know how to apply it to the mobi file's metadata).

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09-07-2016, 10:10 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,858 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	conversion_options allows you to pass options to the conversion system during recipe creation. IIRC that will allow you to set pubdate though not the date added field.

09-07-2016, 11:09 AM	#3
sup Connoisseur Posts: 95 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2013 Device: Kindle Paperwhite (2012)	Thanks, that worked! (for anyone stumbling upond this, when you try to update the values from a method like parse_index(), you need to set self.conversion_options and self.title, the key for date in conversion_options is 'pubkey' and it translates the string "24/12/2016" as December 12 2016, I am not sure if this is locale dependent or not).

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