Append to recipes at run-time?

bobbysteel · 04-13-2018, 06:16 AM

Hi Kovid -
I use scripts to automatically download my weekly news sources via cron jobs. I like using the recipes provided online, but I've often had to add tweaks to all of them (for example, adding a compress_news_images_max_size to fit under 25mb for Kindle email sending). I'd like to use the stock recipes but at run-time add a flag to append to them my extra parameters. Is there any way to do this? My only option now is to just download the recipe every so often and then manually add my parameters (or add programatically but which is fragile).

kovidgoyal · 04-13-2018, 08:09 AM

No there is no such facility. Just clone the calibre repo and maintain your changes as commits in it, then you can use git to automatically update and rebase your commits.

04-13-2018, 06:16 AM	#1
bobbysteel Big Poppa Posts: 110 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: Nook	Append to recipes at run-time? Hi Kovid - I use scripts to automatically download my weekly news sources via cron jobs. I like using the recipes provided online, but I've often had to add tweaks to all of them (for example, adding a compress_news_images_max_size to fit under 25mb for Kindle email sending). I'd like to use the stock recipes but at run-time add a flag to append to them my extra parameters. Is there any way to do this? My only option now is to just download the recipe every so often and then manually add my parameters (or add programatically but which is fragile).

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04-13-2018, 08:09 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,842 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	No there is no such facility. Just clone the calibre repo and maintain your changes as commits in it, then you can use git to automatically update and rebase your commits.

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