08-11-2009, 07:32 PM | #1 |
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New Yorker recipe not working ...
... since last week. It only produces an empty newspaper.
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08-11-2009, 08:41 PM | #2 |
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08-12-2009, 07:43 AM | #3 |
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Silly me, I know what happened. I have the recipe customized to fetch news only a week old, and fro some reason the new yorker has bi-weekly editions on august. There was just nothing to fetch this week.
I have noticed two things, though, with this recipe that you might want to improve for future versions. One is that, compared to other recipes, this one does not group articles by section, there are all scrambled together. Then again that might just be due to the source feed itself. The other is a weird thing: in my Kindle 2, I am allowed to keep old editions of all my subscriptions, including those dowloaded through Calibre, with the exception of the New Yorker. The option to keep the old edition is missing. Thanks a lot for your help and keep the great work. |
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When you're done, that section of the recipe should look like this: Code:
encoding = 'cp1252' timefmt = '' You'll need to use the 'Customize builtin recipe' feature in 'Add custom news source' to do this. Make sure that the indent level is the same. G |
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08-14-2009, 08:00 AM | #6 |
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Many thanks for your help, GRiker.
Unfortunately, this does not solve the problem. Adding the instruction that you suggest does make old editions to go to the "Back Issues" folder, which is good. However, once there there is no option to keep a particular issue of the New Yorker as the folder gets full. This option does exist for the other periodicals, even those downloaded through calibre. Thanks again |
08-14-2009, 08:27 AM | #7 |
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cartesio, here's what's happening, and a solution:
Kindle has 2 flavors of periodicals - blogs, and newspapers/magazines. Blogs are *flat* periodicals, meaning that all articles are presented in a single section. Newspapers/magazines are *structured* periodicals, meaning that articles are presented in sections. The recipe determines whether the downloaded content will be assembled as a flat or structured periodical, based on the number of feeds. 1 feed = flat, >1 feed = structured. The Kindle GUI offers 'Keep This Issue' only for structured periodicals, not flat periodicals. So in other words, a recipe that creates its content in a single section will not have the option to save the issue. This is a Kindle issue, not a calibre issue. Therefore, the recipe needs to download multiple sections, which will cause calibre to build it as a structured periodical, which will enable the Kindle to save the issue. The individual RSS feeds for The New Yorker may be found at http://www.newyorker.com/services/rss/summary. I modified the built-in recipe, changing the 'feeds=' line to the code below, and adding the timefmt='' line to enable archiving. (This is a sampling of the individual New Yorker sections, but you can adjust to taste): feeds = [(u'Reporting & Essays', u'http://feeds.newyorker.com/services/rss/feeds/reporting.xml'), (u'Humor', u'http://feeds.newyorker.com/services/rss/feeds/humor.xml'), (u'Fiction & Poetry', u'http://feeds.newyorker.com/services/rss/feeds/fiction.xml'), (u'The Talk of the Town', u'http://feeds.newyorker.com/services/rss/feeds/talk.xml'), (u'Comment', u'http://feeds.newyorker.com/services/rss/feeds/comment.xml'), (u'The Financial Page', u'http://feeds.newyorker.com/services/rss/feeds/financial.xml'), (u'Politics', u'http://feeds.newyorker.com/services/rss/feeds/politics.xml'), (u'Movies', u'http://feeds.newyorker.com/services/rss/feeds/movies.xml'), (u'The Balance Sheet', u'http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/jamessurowiecki/rss.xml')] That should get the behavior you want. G |
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Thanks a lot to both of you.
GRiker, I will give it a try, your explanation makes a lot of sense. |
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(u'Think Tank', u'http://http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/stevecoll/rss.xml'), (u'Hendrik Hertzberg', u'http://http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/hendrikhertzberg/rss.xml'), (u'Sasha Frere-Jones', u'http://http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sashafrerejones/rss.xml'), (u'Interesting Times', u'http://http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/georgepacker/rss.xml'), (u'The Book Bench', u'http://http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/rss.xml')] I even made these the only feeds and it grabbed nothing. Any idea what I'm missing here? Thanks, El |
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08-19-2009, 03:17 PM | #11 |
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It looks like your urls are malformed. Note that the working urls look like this:
http://feeds.newyorker.com/services/rss/feeds/ ... and yours ... don't. Go to this url: http://feeds.newyorker.com/, then copy the links of the feeds you want, and paste them into the recipe. That should solve it for you. G |
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Thanks for the assist. It works perfectly now. El |
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