OPDS Filenames

[ashanrath]

Hi, I've searched around the web and these forums without much success. I'm using OPDS feeds to pull books from Calibre to a Kobo running KOReader. Unfortunately KOReader doesn't support sorting via metadata, only file attributes.

I know that we can customise filename output for Send to Device and Save to Disk, but this doesn't seem to apply to OPDS downloads and I can't find any equivalent functionality.

I've got plugboards setup for the title field but ideally I'd be able to apply that template to the OPDS download filename too. Am I missing something or is this not supported functionality?

Thanks.

[kovidgoyal]

filenames when downloading from a server are ultimately controlled by the client. The calibre server does set the Content-disposition http header with a suggested filename (which you can control via plugboards) but clients are free to ignore that.

[ashanrath]

Ah that makes sense. Thanks Kovid, I might look into the KOReader repo and test out a modification to the logic. Appreciate the insight.

[BrightSquirrel]

I don't know if this helps you at all, but your post here gave me an idea. I did this on my Paperwhite 2 itself.

You will need to show hidden files and unsupported files. You can get to the text editor by long pressing on the file, selecting Open with... on the menu that appears, select the Text Editor radio button, then click on open.

I was just fine with the filename being the title. So I edited

opdsbrowser.lua

found in

/mnt/us/koreader/plugins/opds.koplugin

I then deleted lines 541-543

    if item.author then
        filename = item.author .. " - " .. filename
    end

And then restarted KOReader

After that, when I download with OPDS the filename is just the book title.