The Hindu Recipe(Better than the default provided with calibre)

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The Hindu recipe(thehindu.com).

[kovidgoyal]

What's the difference to the builtin recipe?

[sexymax15]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

What's the difference to the builtin recipe?

This is the built in version. Here you are not using RSS

from __future__ import with_statement
__license__ = 'GPL 3'
__copyright__ = '2009, Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>'

import time
from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe

class TheHindu(BasicNewsRecipe):
title = u'The Hindu'
language = 'en_IN'

oldest_article = 7
__author__ = 'Kovid Goyal'
max_articles_per_feed = 100
no_stylesheets = True

keep_only_tags = [dict(id='content')]
remove_tags = [dict(attrs={'class':['article-links', 'breadcr']}),
dict(id=['email-section', 'right-column', 'printfooter'])]

extra_css = '.photo-caption { font-size: smaller }'

def postprocess_html(self, soup, first_fetch):
for t in soup.findAll(['table', 'tr', 'td','center']):
t.name = 'div'
return soup

def parse_index(self):
today = time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
soup = self.index_to_soup(
'http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-index/?date=' + today)
div = soup.find(id='left-column')
feeds = []
current_section = None
current_articles = []
for x in div.findAll(['h3', 'div']):
if current_section and x.get('class', '') == 'tpaper':
a = x.find('a', href=True)
if a is not None:
current_articles.append({'url':a['href']+'?css=print',
'title':self.tag_to_string(a), 'date': '',
'description':''})
if x.name == 'h3':
if current_section and current_articles:
feeds.append((current_section, current_articles))
current_section = self.tag_to_string(x)
current_articles = []
return feeds

And this version is mine:

class AdvancedUserRecipe1301060393(BasicNewsRecipe):
title = u'The Hindu1'
oldest_article = 7
max_articles_per_feed = 15

feeds = [(u'National', u'http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/?service=feeder'),
(u'International', u'http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/?service=feeder'),
(u'Sports', u'http://www.thehindu.com/sport/?service=feeder'),
(u'States', u'http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/?service=feeder'),
(u'Science', u'http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/?service=feeder'),
(u'Business', u'http://www.thehindu.com/business/?service=feeder'),
(u'Life&Style', u'http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/?service=feeder'),
(u'Arts', u'http://www.thehindu.com/arts/?service=feeder'),
(u'Health',u'http://www.thehindu.com/health/?service=feeder'),
(u'Editorial', u'http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/?service=feeder'),
(u'Agriculture', u'http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/agriculture/?service=feeder')
]

The hindu provides comple RSS feed. So you don't need to make any extra effort just add the RSS feed and your recipe will be ready in no minute.It already provides you the print version of the article.So please up date your calibre 'The Hindu' recipe. Your recipe sometimes doesnot fetch any article.

Comparision:
Calibre Built-In:




New Recipe:






:t hanks:
FOR MAKING CALIBRE


BY THE WAY IF YOU ARE AN INDIAN PLEASE JANLOKPAL AND ANNAHAZARE

[valaraukar]

Hello.

I have to agree with the poster... this recipe does score over the inbuilt one on some points (No offence, Kovid!

I've been reading the Hindu via the inbuilt recipe for a couple of months now, on the Kindle, and to honest, it's not easy to navigate. The default of 100 articles is too much, and at least on the Kindle, navigation between sections is a pain. Jump to the 'Sections and Articles', and there's no way to get back to where you were. Also, I doubt anybody needs a hundred articles on EACH of the major states covered by the Hindu. In addition, the articles in the State sections rarely mention what city or town they're covering, which is rather frustrating. Agreed, this is hardly the fault of the recipe, though.

The RSS feed based system has the advantage of choosing which sections are important to you, and the RSS only covers the new articles. For example, I can add the Hyderabad feed, and not have to wade through the entire AP section.

One problem that's immediately apparent with the new recipe (at least on the Kindle), is that the associated image with the article always appears at the end of the article text, unlike in the beginning of the article, in the inbuilt recipe. Also, the images are stripped of their legends, so no explanation follows the images.

How can this possibly be resolved?

[kovidgoyal]

No worries, I'm not offended, I just asked because I wanted to decide if I should replace the builtin recipe or not. Sounds like it isn't quite a replacement. It's major feature appears to be being able to customize the downloaded content, which would mean it doesn't make sense as a builtin recipe anyway.

[valaraukar]

Fair enough.

Any pointers on how to tweak the inbuilt recipe to allow some level of customization? The RSS feed recipe was easy enough to do... but the inbuilt recipe offered no obvious level of manipulation to a noob like me. I do like how the inbuilt recipe maintains the images at the beginning of the post, but the RSS feed method allows me to choose a city specific section.

[kovidgoyal]

In parse_index() test current_section and skip the values you dont want.

[vishnumvv]

Thanks Goyal for giving us calibre

In the Hindu receipe i would like to add state list i deleted my state andhra pradesh from omit list but i am fetching news only few there are some district news under andhrapradesh but i am not getting those

please help me to get that news Also
and i need images as well if possible
help me