Recipe request: Longform

adrrs · 12-12-2018, 04:08 AM

Hi,
Completely new to Calibre and have no coding knowledge. Was wondering if anyone had a ready recipe for Longform.org? The website is essentially a collection of links to articles, so was hoping that the recipe would be able to get the underlying articles from the Longform feed.
Thanks!
Ros

kovidgoyal · 12-12-2018, 11:39 PM

the problem with aggregator sites like that is that the formatting of each article is different, so it is hard to write a single recipe to extract the content from all articles.

bobbysteel · 01-03-2019, 06:55 AM

You might want to try a two step process to send each article to something like outline.com by prepending that to the url like https://outline.com/www.vanityfair.c...amantha-markle
This standardizes the format but takes a while sometimes, so you'd want a hefty timeout plus a check on the returned URL.

12-12-2018, 04:08 AM	#1
adrrs Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2018 Device: Kindle Oasis	Recipe request: Longform Hi, Completely new to Calibre and have no coding knowledge. Was wondering if anyone had a ready recipe for Longform.org? The website is essentially a collection of links to articles, so was hoping that the recipe would be able to get the underlying articles from the Longform feed. Thanks! Ros

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12-12-2018, 11:39 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,858 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	the problem with aggregator sites like that is that the formatting of each article is different, so it is hard to write a single recipe to extract the content from all articles.

01-03-2019, 06:55 AM	#3
bobbysteel Big Poppa Posts: 110 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: Nook	You might want to try a two step process to send each article to something like outline.com by prepending that to the url like https://outline.com/www.vanityfair.c...amantha-markle This standardizes the format but takes a while sometimes, so you'd want a hefty timeout plus a check on the returned URL.