Problems with own recipe

[mgrmgrde]

I have a couple of problems with a self written recipe for RSS-feeds

1. in the feed list there is a category-name and the url as u'' strings.
I'd like the category name omitted in the content-post if there are no articles in this category. Currently there are articles linked to some other categories, alternatively I'd post a self-supplied "no articles" article

2. In each article there is a text 'Category: ' with the category-name, directly followed by 'Added: " with the added timestamp and two other similar entries. I need these elements shown on separate lines (probably preceded by <br/>). I tried with the soup, raw_html - alas no success up to now

3. I want to embed an own picture for each category. Where to put the pictures and where to put/define the os-path to these pics?

The obvious method would be to expand the feed-parameters with a third param with the pic-name, but I guess the following changes would be numerous.

As the feed-urls are nearly identical; where to change to the resulting url when leaving out the identical parts???

TIA for ideas to solve my current problems.

[kovidgoyal]

1. remove_empty_feeds = True

2. You can make any changes to article HTML you like by implementing preprocess_html in your recipe

3. Not sure what you mean by that. If you mean you want pictures in article or feed descriptions, that is not supported

[mgrmgrde]

@Kovid:

so much