MetroTime Belgium

Leprecon · 11-15-2010, 06:02 AM

http://www.metrotime.be/digipapernl.html
Then look for a .pdf file. This pdf id unfortunately only one page and you have to continue downloading every consecutive page. Luckily the urls make sense.

Code:

page1: http://www.metrotime.be/UserFiles/DigiPaper/nl/20101110/1/MVLMP-0-20101110-01.pdf
page2: http://www.metrotime.be/UserFiles/DigiPaper/nl/20101110/2/MVLMP-0-20101110-02.pdf

It basically has date followed by pagenumber a couple of times and it is always 24 pages.

Could these be merged into one pdf file?

If not, you would have to "click" each story on the image of the page to get to a simple version. You would just have to look for a "storyId=" in the source of every of the 24 pages. (And on the frontpage there are short headlines and the page number they are on, which have a storyid to them as well which should be ignored. This could technically be done since the "stories" all end with the identifier "e_SRitp")

Is any of this possible?

Edit: forgot to mention that it doesn't update every day.

marbs · 11-16-2010, 02:32 AM

calibre does not support pdf file input. sorry.

Leprecon · 11-16-2010, 04:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by marbs

calibre does not support pdf file input. sorry.

Ok ... then you read the rest of my post saying there are two ways of getting the news from that site, one leading to articles that look like this. Surely calibre can handle plain text?

jfdeclercq · 11-16-2010, 04:49 AM

What you could try is to download the html site using scrapbook than, find out what html file could be the most complete table of contents and use Calibre's ebook converter to get an ePub.

J-F

Starson17 · 11-16-2010, 09:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Leprecon

Ok ... then you read the rest of my post saying there are two ways of getting the news from that site, one leading to articles that look like this. Surely calibre can handle plain text?

It's not totally clear what the relationship is between the text link above and your question about pdf, but if you have links to html pages (text) with or without images, then Calibre's recipe system can handle them. If the html pages have links to other related pages and you need to put them together into a single article, Calibre can handle that, too.

Leprecon · 11-16-2010, 05:09 PM

Apparently my English isn't as good as I thought.
My question was whether someone could make a recipe for me.

You can get the article in plaintext or with a couple of simple images by going to this site and pressing the individual articles on the picture of the newspapers page.
All of the articles have links that look like this

Code:

http://www.metrotime.be/digipaperArticlenl.html?storyId=37748746
http://www.metrotime.be/digipaperArticlenl.html?storyId=37748752

If you were to go over page one to 24

Code:

http://www.metrotime.be/digipapernl.html?pag=1&kdate=15/11/2010
...
http://www.metrotime.be/digipapernl.html?pag=24&kdate=15/11/2010

And look through the source of each page aggregating every story by going over every link that has

Code:

/digipaperArticlenl.html?storyId=

in it.

Then you would have to remove every story that ends with "e_SRitp" (like this one) because it is useless fluff.

11-15-2010, 06:02 AM	#1
Leprecon Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: PRS 350	MetroTime Belgium http://www.metrotime.be/digipapernl.html Then look for a .pdf file. This pdf id unfortunately only one page and you have to continue downloading every consecutive page. Luckily the urls make sense. Code: page1: http://www.metrotime.be/UserFiles/DigiPaper/nl/20101110/1/MVLMP-0-20101110-01.pdf page2: http://www.metrotime.be/UserFiles/DigiPaper/nl/20101110/2/MVLMP-0-20101110-02.pdf It basically has date followed by pagenumber a couple of times and it is always 24 pages. Could these be merged into one pdf file? If not, you would have to "click" each story on the image of the page to get to a simple version. You would just have to look for a "storyId=" in the source of every of the 24 pages. (And on the frontpage there are short headlines and the page number they are on, which have a storyid to them as well which should be ignored. This could technically be done since the "stories" all end with the identifier "e_SRitp") Is any of this possible? Edit: forgot to mention that it doesn't update every day. Last edited by Leprecon; 11-16-2010 at 04:45 AM.

11-16-2010, 05:09 PM	#6
Leprecon Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: PRS 350	Apparently my English isn't as good as I thought. My question was whether someone could make a recipe for me. You can get the article in plaintext or with a couple of simple images by going to this site and pressing the individual articles on the picture of the newspapers page. All of the articles have links that look like this Code: http://www.metrotime.be/digipaperArticlenl.html?storyId=37748746 http://www.metrotime.be/digipaperArticlenl.html?storyId=37748752 If you were to go over page one to 24 Code: http://www.metrotime.be/digipapernl.html?pag=1&kdate=15/11/2010 ... http://www.metrotime.be/digipapernl.html?pag=24&kdate=15/11/2010 And look through the source of each page aggregating every story by going over every link that has Code: /digipaperArticlenl.html?storyId= in it. Then you would have to remove every story that ends with "e_SRitp" (like this one) because it is useless fluff.

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11-16-2010, 02:32 AM	#2
marbs Zealot Posts: 122 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: nook	calibre does not support pdf file input. sorry.

11-16-2010, 04:49 AM	#4
jfdeclercq ePaper Enthousiast Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Overijse, Belgium Device: iRex DR1000S	What you could try is to download the html site using scrapbook than, find out what html file could be the most complete table of contents and use Calibre's ebook converter to get an ePub. J-F

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