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Old 12-29-2015, 11:57 AM   #1
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Downloading News Subscriptions Without Calibre Running?

I like the automatic news downloading and emailing to my K3, but is there such a way / service I could run the schedule whilst Calibre is not running on my Mac?
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No, calibre must be running in order to run calibre and do one of the things calibre does.

What you can do, is set a schedued task (linux: cron job/systemd timer, not sure what the best way is with OSX but maybe launchd? Automator?)
Using the CLI backend, `ebook-convert` can take the name of a "News Source.recipe" as input. `calibredb add` can add the resulting ebook to your library, and `calibre-smtp` can be used to send files via an email relay.

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Ok thanks, I have a linux webserver running Centos, I guess I could try installing on that. Will I be able to set up without a desktop / completely via CLI?
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Easy. Just see the download_linux page, with a one-liner to install the latest version of calibre.
And the CLI tools run headlessly as of calibre v2.x.

Good choice running on a server laptops have the small downside of not always being turned on.



It should be as simple as:
Code:
#!/bin/bash

ebook-convert "$1.recipe" /tmp/news.mobi
calibre-smtp -s "Daily news job for $1" -a /tmp/news.recipe -r smtp.gmail.com --port 587 -u "me@gmail.com" -p "mypassword"
rm /tmp/news.mobi
Then add cron jobs for `scheduled-recipe-download.sh "My Recipe"`.


You *could* do the same on your Macbook, but if you have a dedicated server why not use it -- plus the CLI tools are a PITA on OSX because the path is deep in the application bundle.
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Great, thanks for the tips & info!
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