Forcing more than 10 items?

[fw190a8]

Hi all,

I was hoping that I could set up Calibre to get me the last week's news from a particular site, but I notice that, for example, most feedburner feeds only contain the last ten items, so if there are more than ten stories in the week, Calibre won't pick up on these.

What is the best thing to do about this, or am I just stuck with it? I notice, for example, my Google Reader is able to keep track of a lot more than the last ten posts, but are they doing something special that I won't be able to do?

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by fw190a8

Hi all,

I was hoping that I could set up Calibre to get me the last week's news from a particular site, but I notice that, for example, most feedburner feeds only contain the last ten items, so if there are more than ten stories in the week, Calibre won't pick up on these.

What is the best thing to do about this, or am I just stuck with it? I notice, for example, my Google Reader is able to keep track of a lot more than the last ten posts, but are they doing something special that I won't be able to do?

You can use the Google Reader Recipe. Other options are more difficult.

[fw190a8]

Thanks for the reply. I see you have a vested interest in the Google Reader recipes. I'm assuming that it will not actually grab the entire article and do nice formatting, since there could potentially be lots of varied feeds in Google Reader, and a recipe can only handle one set of formatting rules?

What would you recommend in my situation? Is it better to move to a daily scheduled download for each feed, and just use the 'archived' section in my Kindle if I want to catch up on the previous week?

Out of interest, I don't suppose there is a way for Calibre to 'collect' feeds, say, day by day, and only compile them into a periodical and email it every X days?

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by fw190a8

Thanks for the reply. I see you have a vested interest in the Google Reader recipes.

Not really. I've never used it and have never had an account. Someone asked for my help in figuring out the login.authentication. I thought it was an interesting puzzle and offered to do the work if someone would provide a login/username/password. They did and I did

I'm assuming that it will not actually grab the entire article and do nice formatting, since there could potentially be lots of varied feeds in Google Reader, and a recipe can only handle one set of formatting rules?

I have no idea. There's a GR thread where you can ask. You can set up a single user/pass for GR and subscribe to only one feed, or you can customize the recipe to grab only the one feed from your GR account.

What would you recommend in my situation? Is it better to move to a daily scheduled download for each feed, and just use the 'archived' section in my Kindle if I want to catch up on the previous week?

That's my preference.

Out of interest, I don't suppose there is a way for Calibre to 'collect' feeds, say, day by day, and only compile them into a periodical and email it every X days?

That's one of the "more difficult" options I was thinking of. Yes, you can probably do that (store individual articles in files), but I wouldn't want to tackle it. Another way would be to do daily downloads to an epub (store multiple articles in epubs), then write a recipe that opened those epubs and built the desired ebook. The recipe system can do this. Another option is that you might find a direct feed in addition to the feedburner feed that has more/older articles in the direct feed.

I seldom find it worthwhile to go to the effort to do any of this stuff. I simply grab everything daily.