recipe to ignore image size constraint on web page

[rutmang]

Hello All,

Apologies if this is present elsewhere. I have searched as well as I can and have found some interesting things, but nothing that is getting me where I'd like.

What I would like to do is bring down a Wordpress RSS feed that contains mainly posts of single images. The source of the image is also its hyperlink when the image is clicked on the webpage. Since the image presented on the webpage has been size-constrained, it essentially acts like a very simple "click to enlarge" link, opening the full-sized image as a new page in the browser.

Source looks like this, for example:

<a href="http://path.to.image.com/02-01.jpg"><img src="http://path.to.image.com/02-01.jpg?w=233&h=300"

What I would calibre to do when fetching is simply download and save the image from the "a href=" and present it according to the fetching output profile rather than with the web page's "?w=233&h=300" constraint.

I've looked at a lot of code today and though I had found something close here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...0&postcount=21

But it didn't seem to perform what I was asking or I didn't place it correctly in the Advanced Mode (which otherwise is all default values).

Trying to learn and appreciate any help! Thanks!

[kovidgoyal]

def preprocess_html(self, soup):
   for img in soup.findAll('img'):
       a = img.findParet('a')
       if a is not None:
           img['src'] = a['href']
       return soup

[rutmang]

Thank you, Kovid, for such a quick response. I have tried it and corrected a typo ("img.findParet" to "img.findParent") and tried putting it at the top, at the bottom of my recipe to no avail. Calibre is still downloading the image as the size it appears on the web page, not the original size of the file it is reading from.

It appears I didn't give the full text of the image statement, but I don't believe it would have any bearing as your code appears to simply tell it to get the original image:

<a href="http://path.to.image.com/02-01.jpg"><img src="http://path.to.image.com/02-01.jpg?w=233&h=300" alt="filedescription" width="240" height="300" /></a>

Maybe there is something else happening I can't describe, but I certainly do appreciate your time! I will keep playing around with it!

Thank you.

[kovidgoyal]

Remember that the function has to be part of the recipe class, which means it has to be at th end of the class and properly indented.

[rutmang]

Fantastic! I added four spaces to the beginning of each of your lines and worked just as I had hoped!

Thank you so much for your wonderful product and work!